Selected cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey Jr., Michael Kidd, Cyd Charisse, and Dolores Gray
Invitation to the Dance, 1956, MGM
Produced by Arthur Freed; directed by Gene Kelly; choreographed by Gene Kelly; original music by Jacques Ibert, John Hollingsworth, and André Previn
Selected cast: Gene Kelly, Claire Sombert, Igor Youskevitch, Tamara Toumanova, and Claude Bessy
The Happy Road, 1957, MGM
Produced by Gene Kelly; directed by Gene Kelly; original music and lyrics by Georges Van Parys, Maurice Chevalier, and Gene Kelly; screenplay by Arthur Julian, Joseph Morhaim, and Harry Kurnitz
Selected cast: Gene Kelly, Barbara Laage, Bobby Clark, and Brigitte Fossey
Les Girls, 1957, MGM
Produced by Sol C. Siegel and Saul Chaplin; directed by George Cukor; choreographed by Jack Cole; original music and lyrics by Cole Porter; screenplay by John Patrick
Selected cast: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, and Jacques Bergerac
Marjorie Morningstar, 1958, Warner Bros.
Produced by Milton Sperling; directed by Irving Rapper; choreographed by Jack Baker; original music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster; screenplay by Everett Freeman
Selected cast: Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Ed Wynn, Carolyn Jones, and Marty Milner
The Tunnel of Love, 1958, MGM
Produced by Joseph Fields and Martin Melcher; directed by Gene Kelly; screenplay by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov
Selected cast: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, and Gig Young
Let’s Make Love, 1960, Twentieth Century-Fox
Produced by Jerry Wald; directed by George Cukor; choreographed by Jack Cole; music and lyrics by Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, and James Van Heusen; screenplay by Norman Krasna
Selected cast: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Gene Kelly (cameo), Bing Crosby (cameo), and Milton Berle (cameo)
Inherit the Wind, 1960, United Artists
Produced by Stanley Kramer; directed by Stanley Kramer; screenplay by Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith
Selected cast: Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly, and Dick York
Gigot, 1962, Seven Arts
Produced by Kenneth Hyman; directed by Gene Kelly; screenplay by John Patrick
Selected cast: Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath, and Gabrielle Dorziat
What a Way to Go! 1964, Twentieth Century-Fox
Produced by Arthur P. Jacobs; directed by J. Lee Thompson; choreographed by Gene Kelly and Richard Humphrey; music and lyrics by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne; screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Selected cast: Shirley MacLaine, Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Dick Van Dyke, Paul Newman, Dean Martin, and Robert Cummings
A Guide for the Married Man, 1967, Twentieth Century-Fox
Produced by Frank McCarthy; directed by Gene Kelly; original music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Johnny Williams; screenplay by Frank Tarloff
Selected cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Lucille Ball, Art Carney, and Jayne Mansfield
The Young Girls of Rochefort, 1968, Warner Bros.–Seven Arts
Produced by Gilbert de Goldschmidt; directed by Jacques Demy; choreographed by Norman Maen, Pamela Hart, and Maureen Bright; music and lyrics by Michel Legrand, W. Earl Brown, Jacques Demy, and Julian More; screenplay by Jacques Demy
Selected cast: Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, George Chakiris, and Gene Kelly
Hello, Dolly! 1969, Twentieth Century-Fox
Produced by Ernest Lehman; directed by Gene Kelly; choreographed by Michael Kidd; music and lyrics by Jerry Herman; screenplay by Ernest Lehman
Selected cast: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, and Tommy Tune
The Cheyenne Social Club, 1970, National General Pictures
Produced and directed by Gene Kelly; screenplay by James Lee Barrett
Selected cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Jones
40 Carats, 1973, Columbia
Produced by M. J. Frankovich; directed by Milton Katselas; screenplay by Leonard Gershe
Selected cast: Liv Ullman, Edward Albert, Binnie Barnes, and Gene Kelly
That’s Entertainment! 1974, MGM
Produced, directed, and written by Jack Haley Jr.; clips in the film include choreography by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Charles Walters, and Busby Berkeley; clips include music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, and Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin
Selected cast (included are hosts and narrators): Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Liza Minnelli, Donald O’Connor, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, and Debbie Reynolds
That’s Entertainment! Part II, 1976, MGM
Produced by Saul Chaplin and Daniel Melnick; directed by Gene Kelly; new sequences choreographed by Gene Kelly (uncredited), Alex Romero, and Robin Hoctor; clips in the film include choreography by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Charles Walters, and Busby Berkeley; clips include music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, and Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe; screenplay by Leonard Gershe
Selected cast: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire
Viva Knievel! 1977, Warner Bros.
Produced by Stan Hough; directed by Gordon Douglas; screenplay by Antonio Santillan and Norman Katkov
Selected cast: Evel Knievel, Gene Kelly, Lauren Hutton, and Red Buttons
Xanadu, 1980, Universal
Produced by Lawrence Gordon; directed by Robert Greenwald; choreographed by Kenny Ortega and Jerry Trent; original music and lyrics by John Farrar and Jeff Lynne; screenplay by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel
Selected cast: Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, Gene Kelly, and James Sloyan
That’s Dancing! 1985, MGM
Produced by Jack Haley Jr., David Niven Jr., and Gene Kelly (executive producer); directed by Jack Haley Jr.; choreographed by Alex Romero; original music by Henry Mancini; screenplay by Jack Haley Jr.
Selected cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gene Kelly, Ray Bolger, Liza Minnelli, and Sammy Davis Jr.
That’s Entertainment! Part III, 1994, MGM
Produced, directed, and written by Bud Friedgen and Michael J. Sheridan; clips in the film include choreography by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Charles Walters, and Busby Berkeley; clips include music and lyrics by
Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Selected cast: Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, and Debbie Reynolds
Appendix C
Selected Television Work
The Life You Save, March 1, 1957, Schlitz Playhouse, CBS
Directed by Herschel Daugherty
Selected cast: Buddy Joe Hooker, Gene Kelly, Agnes Moorehead, and Barbara Pepper
Dancing: A Man’s Game, December 21, 1958, Omnibus, CBS
Choreographed by Gene Kelly
Selected cast: Gene Kelly (as himself), Mickey Mantle, Johnny Unitas, and Sugar Ray Robinson
The Gene Kelly Show, April 24, 1959, NBC
Directed by Joseph Cates
Selected cast: Gene Kelly (as himself), Claude Bessy, Cherylene Lee, Liza Minnelli, and Carl Sandburg
Pontiac Star Parade, November 21, 1959, NBC
Directed by Sidney Miller
Selected cast: Gene Kelly (as himself), Carol Lawrence, and Donald O’Connor
Going My Way (series), 1962–1963, NBC
Directed by Joseph Pevney and Robert Florey
Selected cast: Gene Kelly, Dick York, Leo G. Carroll, and Ed Begley
The Julie Andrews Show, November 28, 1965, NBC
Directed by Alan Handley
Selected cast: Julie Andrews, Gene Kelly (as himself), and the New Christy Minstrels
Gene Kelly in New York, New York, February 14, 1966, CBS
Directed by Charles S. Dubin
Selected cast: Gene Kelly (as h
imself), Woody Allen, Gower Champion, and Tommy Steele
Jack and the Beanstalk, February 26, 1967, NBC
Produced and directed by Gene Kelly; original music and lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen; teleplay by Larry Markes and Michael Morris
Selected cast: Gene Kelly, Bobby Riha, Ted Cassidy, and Marian McKnight
Gene Kelly’s Wonderful World of Girls, January 14, 1970, NBC
Directed by Danny Daniels
Selected cast: Gene Kelly (as himself), Ruth Buzzi, Barbara Eden, and Diane Davis
An American in Pasadena, March 13, 1978, CBS
Directed by Buzz Kohan
Selected cast: Gene Kelly (as himself), Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Cyd Charisse, Kathryn Grayson, and Liza Minnelli
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, December 25, 1982, CBS
Directed by Don Mischer
Selected cast: Gene Kelly (as himself), George Abbott, Cyd Charisse, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Van Johnson, and Lillian Gish
“Hong Kong Cruise,” parts 1 and 2, The Love Boat (series), February 4, 1984, ABC
Directed by Richard Kinon
Selected cast: Gene Kelly, Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, and Jill Whelan
North and South (miniseries), 1985, ABC
Directed by Richard T. Heffron
Selected cast: Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Patrick Swayze, Gene Kelly, Johnny Cash, and Morgan Fairchild
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gene Kelly, May 7, 1985, CBS
Directed by Don Mischer
Selected cast: Gene Kelly (as himself), Fred Astaire, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Cyd Charisse, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leslie Caron, and Stanley Donen
Sins (miniseries), 1986, CBS
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Selected cast: Joan Collins, Gene Kelly, Timothy Dalton, and Capucine
Notes
Introduction
1. “Gene Kelly,” Photoplay, January 1946.
2. Adolph Green’s assessment is in Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer, dir. Robert Trachtenberg, perf. Betsy Blair, Stanley Donen, Kerry Kelly Novick (2002; New York: American Masters, 2002), DVD. For “cocky” and “jaw-jutting,” see “Interviews,” American Film, February 1979.
3. “Interviews,” American Film.
4. Alyce Canfield, “That Old Black Magic,” Movieland, May 1948.
5. Ibid.
6. Jane Ardmore, “Holy Man or Holy Terror?” TV Radio Mirror, November 1962.
7. “Gene Kelly,” Seventeen, September 1946.
8. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
9. Ibid.
10. “Gene Kelly,” Picturegoer, September 1946.
11. Rudy Behlmer, America’s Favorite Movies: Behind the Scenes (New York: F. Ungar, 1982), 157.
12. “Stanley Donen interview, February 8, 1996,” Capitol Public Radio.
13. Tony Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1974), 20.
14. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
15. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
16. “To Dance or Not to Dance . . . and Gene Kelly Wants you to Give Him the Answer,” Motion Picture, February 1947.
17. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly,20.
18. Graham Fuller, “And Now, the Real Kicker . . . ,” Interview, May 1994.
19. David Reiss, “An Interview with Gene Kelly,” Premiere, February 1981.
20. Michael Singer, A Cut Above: 50 Film Directors Talk about Their Craft (Los Angeles: Lone Eagle, 1998), 143.
21. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
22. Ibid.
1. The Reluctant Dancer
1. “Sears Closing a Major Setback for East Liberty Residents,” Beaver County Times, January 28, 1993.
2. Maxine Garrison, “Kelly’s from Pittsburgh and He Is Almighty Proud of the Fact!” Pittsburgh Press, October 30, 1944.
3. “Those Were the Days,” Filmland, February 1951.
4. Kimberly Powell, “Pittsburgh’s Scotch Irish Heritage,” About.com, accessed January 1, 2015, http://pittsburgh.about.com/library/weekly/aa_scotch_irish.htm.
5. Clive Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly (New York: St. Martin’s, 1984), 5.
6. Gladys Hall, “Gene Kelly Writes a Letter,” Movie Show, June 1946; Robert Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey: Portrait of a Dancer, from Pennsylvania to the Barrymore Theatre,” New York Times, March 2, 1941.
7. Betsy Blair, The Memory of All That: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris (New York: Knopf, 2003), 18–19.
8. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly,8.
9. “Sincerity, Unrehearsed Charm Percolated by the Real Gene Kelly,” Sarasota (FL) Journal, July 20, 1976.
10. Rusty E. Frank, Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900–1955 (New York: William Morrow, 1990), 171.
11. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly,15.
12. John Wakeman, World Film Directors Book: 1945–1985 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1988), 602.
13. “Sincerity, Unrehearsed Charm Percolated by the Real Gene Kelly.”
14. “Gene Kelly,” American Way, June 1984.
15. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 9.
16. Cynthia Millen Roberts, “Did You Really Smoke Cigarettes? An Interview with Gene Kelly,” 1991, Gene Kelly Fans, accessed November 7, 2010, http://genekellyfans.com/blogs/%E2%80%9Cdid-you-really-smoke-cigarettes%E2%80%9D-and-other-questions-an-interview-with-gene-kelly/.
17. Hedda Hopper, “Gene Kelly Would Rather Teach,” Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1954.
18. “André Previn and Gene Kelly,” December 21, 1986, BBC Two England, television.
19. “Those Were the Days.”
20. “Sincerity, Unrehearsed Charm Percolated by the Real Gene Kelly.”
21. “Those Were the Days.”
22. Kay Proctor, “Hey, Irish!” Photoplay, May 1943.
23. Ibid.
24. Alvin Yudkoff, Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams (New York: Backstage Books, 1999), 3.
25. Frank, Tap! 171.
26. Ibid., 172.
27. John Kenrick, “Broadway in the Gay ’90s,” Musicals 101,2000, accessed January 4, 2015, http://www.musicals101.com/1890–1900.htm.
28. Ron Weiskind, “Obituary: Harriet Joan Kelly Radvansky, Dancing Sister of Gene Kelly, Longtime West Mifflin Teacher,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 10, 2002.
29. “Gene Kelly,” Dallas Morning News, June 1974.
30. Kevin Thomas, “Gene Kelly Singing the Blues over State of U.S. Musicals,” Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1966.
31. Sheridan Morley and Ruth Leon, Gene Kelly: A Celebration (London: Pavilion Books, 1996), 22.
32. Douglas Martin, “Fred Kelly, 83, a Dancer in a Shadow, Dies,” New York Times, March 17, 2000.
33. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 7.
34. Ibid., 16.
35. Danny Shane, “Know This about Dancing,” Screenland Plus TV-Land, January 1953.
2. A Depression-Era Kid
1. Christopher Rawson, “On the Town,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 27, 2000.
2. “Gene Kelly,” Parade, August 3, 1957.
3. “Interviews,” American Film.
4. Margy Rochlin, “Old Is New Again,” Interview, February 1985.
5. Ardmore, “Holy Man or Holy Terror?”
6. “TV Graphic,” Pittsburgh Press, December 9, 1962.
7. Ibid.
8. Helen Hover, “Popping Questions at Gene Kelly,” Motion Picture, October 1944.
9. Ibid.
10. “Great Vitality,” Motion Picture, January 1943.
11. “Gene Kelly,” Saturday Evening Post, July 1950.
12. Frank, Tap! 173.
13. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly,16.
14. Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931; repr., New York: Bantam Books, 1959), 185.
15. Blair, The Memory of All That,19.
16. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
17. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly,27.
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8. Thomas, “Gene Kelly Singing the Blues over State of U.S. Musicals.”
19. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 28.
20. Fuller, “And Now, the Real Kicker.”
21. Rosemary Layng, “Pied Piper,” Modern Screen, July 1947.
22. Alan Jay Lerner, The Street Where I Live (New York: Norton, 1978), 41.
23. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly,13.
24. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly,27.
25. “Gene Kelly,” Saturday Evening Post.
26. “Old Faces: Sextuple Threat,” Time, August 4, 1967.
27. “Gene Kelly,” Allegheny (PA) Times, November 4, 1990.
28. Pauline Swanson, “Gene Kelly,” Dance, September 1954.
29. Ardmore, “Holy Man or Holy Terror?”
30. Hal Rubenstein, “An American in Style,” New York Times, April 17, 1994.
31. “Gene Kelly Goes Legit Again after 33 Years,” People, July 8, 1974.
3. Kelly Mania
1. “Gene Kelly,” Collier’s, May 19, 1945.
2. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
3. “Gene Kelly,” Saturday Evening Post.
4. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 25.
5. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 32.
6. “Gene Kelly,” Saturday Evening Post.
7. “Gene Kelly,” Collier’s.
8. “Gene Kelly,” Saturday Evening Post.
9. Ibid.
10. Frank, Tap! 178.
11. Dancing: A Man’s Game, perf. Gene Kelly, Dick Button, Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson, Omnibus, December 21, 1958 (New York: NBC, 2013), DVD.
12. “Gene Kelly,” Irish America, December 1990.
13. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 27.
14. “. . . Called It Home,” Gene Kelly: Creative Genius, accessed March 8, 2017, www.freewebs.com/geneius/calledithome.htm.
15. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 35.
16. Randy Whittle, Johnstown, Pennsylvania: A History, 1937–1980 (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2007), 33.
17. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 28.
18. Ibid.
19. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 38.
20. Jeanne Coyne, “I Knew Him When,” Movieland, November 1948.
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