Gene Kelly biography 2022

Actor Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly biography


Gene Kelly (Eugene Curran Kelly) was born August 23, 1912, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

He was an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and director, one of the leading forces in the golden age of musicals 1945-55.

Gene Kelly characterized the genre with his athletic, imaginative, and jazz-ballet-influenced dance, first as an actor in Anchors Aweigh (1945) and The Pirate (1948), then also as a director with Stanley Donen in On the Town (1949), which brought dance from the studio into the big city, Singin' in the Rain (1952). It's Always Fair Weather (1955).

Also famous is his finale ballet to George Gershwin's music in An American in Paris (1951).

Gene Kelly later had serious roles, for example, in Inherit the Wind (1959), but returned as a musical director with Hello, Dolly! (1969).

In a film dialogue in Lulu on the Bridge (1998), author Paul Auster has two of his characters agree that the same song, "Singin' in the Rain," in the film of the same name, is one of the best and most beautiful things ever been created by an American – on a par with the Declaration of Independence and Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick.

Regardless of the whimsy of the comparison, the line change represents many people's view of this high point in Gene Kelly's career.

Died February 2, 1996, in Beverley Hills, USA.



last updated October 2022

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