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28. Mai 2019 · 5.28M subscribers. 7.4K. 507K views 4 years ago. Top 10 Best Gene Kelly Dance Scenes // Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/c/MsMojo?sub_c... These Gene Kelly dance scenes will have you...
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20. Juni 2018 · 175K. 12M views 5 years ago. The complete title song and dance, Gene Kelly (also co-director with Stanley Donen and choreographer) as movie star Don Lockwood, tune by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by...
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A retrospective of Gene Kelly's various great dance scenes, starting with his solo work ... If he had a chance, he'd ask the world to dance. Which he kinda did.
- Overview
- Films of the 1940s: Cover Girl, Anchors Aweigh, The Pirate, and On the Town
- Films of the 1950s: An American in Paris, Singin’ in the Rain, and Brigadoon
- Films of the 1960s and beyond
Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and motion-picture director known for his athletic style of dancing, combined with classical ballet technique. He also transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public’s conception of male dancers.
What was Gene Kelly's debut film?
Gene Kelly made his film debut opposite Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (1942).
What was Gene Kelly's role in Singin' in the Rain?
Gene Kelly was the star of Singin' in the Rain, a film considered by many to be the greatest Hollywood musical ever made. The film's most unforgettable sequence is Kelly’s performance of the title song, with him swinging from a lamppost in the rain, delighted at falling in love.
What was Gene Kelly's last movie as an actor?
Kelly made his film debut opposite Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (1942), immediately endearing himself to moviegoers with his carefree acting and spontaneous athletic dancing style. It was not until he was loaned to Columbia Pictures to costar in the Rita Hayworth musical Cover Girl (1944) that he was able to bring his own special artistic vision to the big screen. Before Kelly’s arrival, the movie musical had been divided into essentially two basic styles: the splashy, impersonal, girl-filled extravaganzas of Busby Berkeley and the intimate personality vehicles of Fred Astaire. Kelly adroitly bridged the gap between Berkeley’s cinematic pyrotechnics and Astaire’s straightforward theatrical approach with Cover Girl’s “Alter Ego” number, in which, with the aid of meticulously timed special-effects work, he performed a two-man “challenge dance” with himself. He introduced another innovation in Anchors Aweigh (1945), when he danced with an animated-cartoon mouse (Jerry, of the Tom and Jerry cartoons), and in The Pirate (1948) he staged the first of his many filmed ballets, boldly blending solo dancing, mass movement, offbeat camera angles, and vibrant colours to tell a story in purely visual terms. Kelly also performed several dramatic roles during that period, most notably as D’Artagnan in the swashbuckler The Three Musketeers (1948).
On the Town (1949), codirected by Kelly and his longtime assistant Stanley Donen, further transcended the limits of the Hollywood soundstage with an unforgettable opening musical number filmed entirely on location in the streets of New York City.
Kelly surpassed that triumph two years later with the Academy Award-winning An American in Paris (1951). Climaxed by a spectacular 13-minute ballet that incorporated visual motifs of French Post-Impressionism, the film was singled out by critics and filmgoers alike as Kelly’s masterpiece. Since the mid-1970s, however, its reputation has been eclipsed by Singin’ in the Rain (1952), a witty and upbeat spoof of Hollywood during the talkie revolution. With its perfectly balanced mixture of singing, dancing, comedy, and romance, Singin’ in the Rain is now widely regarded as the greatest film musical ever made. His next released musical, Brigadoon (1954), directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway hit, was not a critical or commercial success. Kelly’s decision to drop Agnes de Mille’s stage choreography for new staging of his own designed for the wide-screen Cinemascope format proved particularly controversial.
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Kelly subsequently codirected with Donen and starred in It’s Always Fair Weather (1955), a loose follow-up to On the Town, which showcased Kelly’s creative choreography for Cinemascope. Equally praiseworthy (though a flop with the public) was his first solo directorial effort, the wordless concert feature Invitation to the Dance (filmed in 1952, released in 1956). But as the 1950s wore on, the movie musical genre fell victim to mounting production costs and diminishing box-office returns. Consequently, Kelly’s film career lost much of its momentum, though he made several credible dramatic appearances in such films as Crest of the Wave (1954).
After turning in a fine dramatic performance in Inherit the Wind (1960), Kelly directed Gigot (1962), a heart-tugging story filmed in Paris and starring Jackie Gleason as a mute man who takes a waif under his wing. Kelly also directed the comedy A Guide for the Married Man (1967), which starred Walter Matthau as the title character being tutored on how to efficiently cheat on his wife. That same year Kelly returned to France to play an American piano player in Jacques Demy’s tribute to Hollywood musicals Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967; The Young Girls of Rochefort).
Hello, Dolly! (1969) was Kelly’s adaptation of the Broadway hit starring Barbra Streisand, Matthau, and Louis Armstrong. The western comedy The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) starred Henry Fonda and James Stewart as two cowboys who unwittingly inherit management of a brothel. Kelly’s final directing credit was as codirector (with Jack Haley, Jr.) of That’s Entertainment, Part 2 (1976), the follow-up to the 1974 original’s compilation of highlights from MGM musicals. He hosted the film with onetime costar Astaire.
Kelly’s final film as an actor was the cult favourite Xanadu (1980), a musical starring pop sensation Olivia Newton-John. Before retiring, his last roles were in the television miniseries North and South (1985) and Sins (1986).
During the last three decades of his life, Kelly received dozens of awards and honours, among them the French Legion of Honour for his choreography of the Paris Opéra Ballet “Pas de Deux” (1960) and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
- Michael Barson
Eugene Curran „Gene“ Kelly (* 23. August 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; † 2. Februar 1996 in Beverly Hills, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Tänzer, Schauspieler, Sänger, Filmregisseur, Filmproduzent und Choreograph.
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessible to the general public, which he called "dance for the common man".
29. Okt. 2015 · Learn about the life and career of Gene Kelly, who danced his way into Hollywood history with his athletic style and versatility. From Broadway to ballet, from \"Singing in the Rain\" to \"An American in Paris\", discover how he changed the way dance was perceived on film.
