He's Got Rhythm: The Life and Career of Gene Kelly (Screen Classics)
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21. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 29.
22. Frank, Tap! 174.
23. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 29.
24. “Gene Kelly,” Collier’s.
25. Ann Rodgers, “Obituary: Louise Kelly Bailey, Last of Five ‘Dancing Kellys,’ Dies,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 24, 2008.
26. Frank, Tap! 174.
27. Rodgers, “Obituary: Louise Kelly Bailey.”
28. Frank, Tap! 179.
29. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 30.
30. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 41.
31. Ibid., 42.
32. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 42.
33. Hover, “Popping Questions at Gene Kelly.”
34. Jeffrey Spivak, e-mail interview with authors, March 31, 2014.
35. Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933,” Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, accessed January 23, 2015, http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/swearing-in/event/franklin-d-roosevelt-1933.
36. Florence Fisher Parry, “On With the Show,” Pittsburgh Press, 1933.
37. “Gene Kelly Days,” Pittsburgh Press, June 24, 1987.
38. Alyce Canfield, “Things I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago,” Movieland, September 1945.
4. “It wasn’t elegant, but it’s me”
1. Steve Sucato, “Chicago National Association of Dance Masters Celebrates Its Past, Looks to Its Future,” Dance Studio Life, May 1, 2012, accessed January 24, 2015, http://www.dancestudiolife.com/a-century-of-dance-education/.
2. “Gene Kelly,” Chicago Tribune, January 4, 1970.
3. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
4. Anna Kisselgoff, “Gene Kelly: Ballet Influenced His View of Dance,” New York Times, January 17, 1985.
5. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 44.
6. Ibid., 45.
7. Dancing: A Man’s Game.
8. “Gene Kelly Interview with Edward Murrow,” Person to Person, December 19, 1958, CBS.
9. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 148.
10. Dancing: A Man’s Game.
11. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 46.
12. Ibid.
13. Albin Krebs, “Gene Kelly, Dancer of Vigor and Grace, Dies,” New York Times, February 3, 1996.
14. Reiss, “An Interview with Gene Kelly.”
15. Krebs, “Gene Kelly, Dancer of Vigor and Grace, Dies.”
16. Philip C. DiMare, interview with authors, May 9, 2014.
17. Fred Astaire, Steps in Time (1959; repr., New York: Dey Street Books, 2009), 6.
18. Krebs, “Gene Kelly, Dancer of Vigor and Grace, Dies.”
19. Anna Kisselgoff, “Dance View: Just a Regular Joe Doing Ballet,” New York Times, February 11, 1996.
20. Dan Callahan, “Gene Kelly Retro at Film Society,” Alt Screen, July 13, 2012, accessed January 28, 2015, http://altscreen.com/07/13/2012/gene-kelly-at-film-society-thru-jul-26/.
21. “Gene Kelly, Cap and Gown Director,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 25, 1935.
22. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 13.
23. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 37.
24. Ibid., 38.
25. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 49.
26. “Child Stars,” Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society, accessed November 10, 2014, http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Ch-Co/Child-Stars.html.
27. Frank, Tap! 175.
28. “Gene Returns Tie to Powell,” Pittsburgh Press, May 16, 1943.
29. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 41–42.
30. “Short Tour Set for Trailer Ho!” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 20, 1937.
31. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 44.
32. Blair, The Memory of All That, 3.
33. “Gene Kelly Forum,” August 8, 2011, Delphi Forums, accessed January 26, 2015, http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/main.asp?webtag=genescene&msg=1906.63.
34. “Merry Tune Revue All Set for Opening at Playhouse,” Pittsburgh Press, April 14, 1938.
35. Ibid.
36. Kaspar Monahan, “A Salute to the Kellys,” Pittsburgh Press, April 27, 1938.
37. Frank, Tap! 171.
38. “Hold Your Hats High Spot of Season,” Pittsburgh Press, April 24, 1938.
39. “Gene Kelly,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 3, 1942.
40. Proctor, “Hey, Irish!”
41. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
42. Coyne, “I Knew Him When.”
43. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 35.
5. The Time of His Life
1. Hugh Martin, Hugh Martin: The Boy Next Door (Encinitas, CA: Trolley, 2010), 57, 59.
2. Stanley Green, Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930s (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971), 12.
3. Vincente Minnelli, I Remember It Well (London: Angus and Robertson, 1975), 52.
4. Ibid., ii.
5. Lerner, The Street Where I Live, 42.
6. Kisselgoff, “Gene Kelly: Ballet Influenced His View of Dance.”
7. Brent Phillips, Charles Walters: The Man Who Taught Hollywood to Dance (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014), 32.
8. “An Evening with Gene Kelly,” Film 74, BBC One, November 5, 1974.
9. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 47.
10. “Gene Kelly,” Movie Stars Parade, July 1947.
11. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 46.
12. Ibid., 56.
13. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 54.
14. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 38–39.
15. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 55.
16. Ibid., 56.
17. Ibid., 54.
18. “Gene Kelly Forum,” Delphi Forums, August 8, 2011, accessed January 26, 2015, http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/main.asp?webtag=genescene&msg=1906.63.
19. Brooks Atkinson, “The Play,” New York Times, November 10, 1938.
20. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 39.
21. “One for the Money,” Pittsburgh Press, March 30, 1939.
22. Howard Sharpe, “I Knew Him When,” Modern Screen, October 1946.
23. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 39.
24. Martin, The Boy Next Door, 87.
25. Ibid., 85.
26. Brooks Atkinson, “The Play,” New York Times, February 6, 1939.
27. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 55.
28. Harold W. Cohen, “The Drama Desk: Local Girl,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 29, 1939.
29. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
30. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 60.
31. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
32. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 62.
33. Ibid.
34. Richard Somerset Ward, An American Theatre: The Story of Westport Country Playhouse, 1931–2005 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), 286.
35. Lawrence Fellows, “Westport Playhouse, a Stable of Talent,” New York Times, June 11, 1976.
36. Paul Robeson Jr., The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2010), 18.
37. Lawrence Fellows, “Westport Playhouse: A Stable of Talent,” New York Times, June 11, 1976.
38. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
39. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 63.
40. William Baer, “Singin’ in the Rain: A Conversation with Betty Comden and Adolph Green,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2002.
41. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 40.
42. Blair, The Memory of All That, 20.
43. Ibid., 12.
44. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 65.
45. Blair, The Memory of All That, 12.
46. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 61.
47. William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939), 43.
48. Harold Cohen, “The Drama Desk,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 4, 1940.
49. Saroyan, The Time of Your Life, 95.
50. “Grek Gormick, from Sleeve Notes, Totem Records, On the Air, September 1980.”
51. Brooks Atkinson, “The Play,” New York Times, October 26, 1939.
52. “Gene Kelly,” Saturday Evening Post.
54. Lerner, The Street Where I Live, 137.
55. Murray Schumach, “Score on a Hollywood Music Man,” New York Times, February 16, 1964.
56. John Kobal, People Will Talk (New York: Knopf, 1986), 650.
57. Blair, The Memory of All That, 9.
58. Ibid., 8–9.
59. “Gene Kelly and Billy Rose,” Radio Times (London), October 1972.
60. Blair, The Memory of All That, 9.
61. Ibid., 12.
62. Ibid.
63. “Playbill, Billy Rose Diamond Horseshoe Review,” circa November 1940.
64. Blair, The Memory of All That, 18.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid., 28.
67. “Gene Kelly Forum.”
68. “Musical Revue Opens,” New York Times, June 25, 1940.
69. “Some New Faces,” New York Times, July 28, 1940.
6. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
1. “Pal Joey,” Movieland, April 1943.
2. Mark Vieira, Majestic Hollywood: The Greatest Films of 1939 (New York: Running Press, 2013), 5.
3. John O’Hara, Pal Joey, in American Musicals: 1927–1949, ed. Laurence Maslon (New York: Library of America), 187.
4. Richard Rodgers, Musical Stages: An Autobiography (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 198.
5. O’Hara, Pal Joey, 222.
6. Rodgers, Musical Stages, 202.
7. O’Hara, Pal Joey, 170.
8. Ibid., 188.
9. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 43.
10. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 73.
11. “Gene Kelly Talks about Pal Joey,” Allegheny (PA) Times, November 4, 1990.
12. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
13. Blair, The Memory of All That, 22–23.
14. Van Johnson, “Just One of Us,” Movie Fan, July 1954.
15. Hall, “Gene Kelly Writes a Letter.”
16. Blair, The Memory of All That, 18.
17. Phillips, Charles Walters, 57.
18. Blair, The Memory of All That, 16.
19. Susan Dominus, “Betsy Blair: An Independent Woman,” New York Times, December 22, 2009.
20. Blair, The Memory of All That, 12.
21. Ibid., 17.
22. Ibid., 57–58.
23. Frederica Boger, “My Kids, the Kellys,” Photoplay, February 1949.
24. Blair, The Memory of All That, 29.
25. “Gene Kelly Reflects on Pal Joey,” Pittsburgh Press, December 16, 1948.
26. “Van Johnson Remembers Gene Kelly,” Movie Show, October 1947.
27. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
28. Ibid.
29. “A Professional Heel Is Really Man with a Soul,” New London (CT) Day, February 17, 1941.
30. Harold W. Cohen, “The Drama Desk: Directing His Goal,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 4, 1940.
31. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 75.
32. Ibid.
33. “Pal Joey,” New York Times, December 27, 1940.
34. Stephen M. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies (New York: Knopf, 1996), 30.
35. “Pal Joey,” New York Times; Frank Rich, “Pal Joey, 50 Years Older, but Also New,” New York Times, July 24, 1990.
36. “Gene Kelly,” Saturday Evening Post.
37. John Martin, “The Dance: Pal Kelly,” New York Times, June 8, 1941.
38. Ibid.
39. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
40. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 28.
41. “Van Johnson Remembers Gene Kelly.”
42. Ibid.
43. “Gene Kelly and Van Johnson,” Picture Show, September 25, 1943.
44. Phillips, Charles Walters, 32.
45. Van Gelder, “Mr. Kelly, or Pal Joey.”
46. Gerold Frank, Judy (Boston: Da Capo, 1999), 170.
47. Ibid.
48. Blair, The Memory of All That, 94.
49. Ibid., 29.
50. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 87.
51. Peter Hay, MGM: When the Lion Roars (New York: Turner, 1991), 78.
52. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 27.
53. Hugh Fordin, MGM’s Greatest Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit (Boston: Da Capo, 1996), 61.
54. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 48.
55. Blair, The Memory of All That, 30.
56. Ibid., 35–36.
57. Ibid., 26.
58. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 83.
59. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 87.
60. Blair, The Memory of All That, 36.
61. “Actor Gene Kelly to Direct Comedy at Shubert September 11,” Hartford (CT) Courant, August 31, 1941.
62. Martin, The Boy Next Door, 126.
63. Ibid., 145.
64. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 32.
65. Ibid., 35.
66. Gene Kelly, “A Letter to My Daughter Kerry,” Silver Screen, March 1943.
67. Blair, The Memory of All That, 36.
68. Ibid., 36–37.
69. Brooks Atkinson, “The Play,” New York Times, October 2, 1941.
70. Martin, The Boy Next Door, 141.
71. Blair, The Memory of All That, 81.
72. “Musical Comedy Is a Serious Business,” Theatre Arts, December 1958.
73. Martin, “The Dance.”
7. At the MGM University
1. Ibid.
2. “‘I Never Intended Staying In Hollywood’: An Interview with Gene Kelly,” Photoplay, August 1975.
3. Blair, The Memory of All That, 82, 84.
4. Ibid., 84.
5. Ibid., 85.
6. Ibid., 86.
7. Ibid., 90.
8. Ibid.
9. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 90.
10. Blair, The Memory of All That, 143.
11. Ibid., 105, 204.
12. Ibid., 105–6.
13. Arthur Laurents, Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood (New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2000), 92.
14. Blair, The Memory of All That, 252.
15. “On Combat Fatigue Irritability: Kerry Kelly Novick,” Circulating Now, March 12, 2014.
16. Blair, The Memory of All That, 104.
17. Fuller, “And Now, the Real Kicker.”
18. Lerner, The Street Where I Live, 42.
19. Minnelli, I Remember It Well, 112–15.
20. Fordin, MGM’s Greatest Musicals, 33.
21. John Updike, More Matter: Essays and Criticism (New York: Random House, 1999), 665.
22. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 103.
23. Scott Eyman, Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005), 303.
24. Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Anchor Books, 1988), 79.
25. Eyman, Lion of Hollywood, 83–85.
26. Gabler, An Empire of Their Own, 80.
27. “Gene Kelly, BBC Interview, 1974.”
28. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 93.
29. Fredrica Boger, “My Kids, the Kellys.”
30. Blair, The Memory of All That, 92.
31. Lerner, The Street Where I Live, 136.
32. Blair, The Memory of All That, 143.
33. Debbie Reynolds, Debbie: My Life (New York: William Morrow, 1988), 64–66.
34. Paul Marsh, “Interview with Gene Kelly,” Screenland, May 1947.
35. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 147.
36. Blair, The Memory of All That, 93–94.
37. Ibid., 93.
38. Ibid., 159.
39. “Spotlight on the Stars,” Middletown Times Herald, October 17, 1946.
40. Updike, More Matter, 667.
41. John Fricke, Judy Garland: World’s Greatest Entertainer (New York: Henry Holt, 1992), 70.
42. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 98.
43. Updike, More Matter, 666.
44. For Me and My Gal, dir. Busby Berkeley, perf. Judy Garland, Gene Kell
y, George Murphy (1942; Hollywood: MGM, 2006), DVD.
45. “Gene Kelly on Judy Garland,” Picture Show, September 25, 1943.
46. Blair, The Memory of All That, 92.
47. “Gene Kelly,” Liberty Magazine Then and Now, Summer 1976.
48. Minnelli, I Remember It Well, 185.
49. Blair, The Memory of All That, 92.
50. John Fricke and Lorna Luft, Judy Garland: A Portrait in Art and Anecdote (New York: Bulfinch, 2003), 107.
51. Harold W. Cohen, “The Drama Desk: Going Up,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 8, 1942.
52. Fordin, MGM’s Greatest Musicals, 66.
53. Jeffrey Spivak, Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010), 193.
54. Proctor, “Hey, Irish!”
55. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 19.
56. “Cinema: The New Pictures,” Time, November 16, 1942; Bosley Crowther, “For Me and My Gal, a Musical Moving Picture Concerned with Vaudeville, Makes Its Appearance at the Astor,” New York Times, October 22, 1942.
57. “Gene Kelly on Acting,” TV and Movie Screen, August 1975.
58. “Gene Kelly,” Chicago Tribune, January 23, 1944.
59. Updike, More Matter, 667.
60. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
61. “Pilot #5 Press Book,” 1943.
62. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 96.
63. “At Loew’s State,” New York Times, June 25, 1943.
64. Phillips, Charles Walters, 57.
65. Fuller, “And Now, the Real Kicker.”
66. Phillips, Charles Walters, 57.
67. Fordin, MGM’s Greatest Musicals, 71.
68. Ibid.
69. Bosley Crowther, “Du Barry Was a Lady Mirthful Newcomer at the Capitol,” New York Times, August 20, 1943.
70. “The Shadow Stage,” Photoplay, July 1943.
71. “Gene Kelly,” Films Illustrated (UK), August 1980.
72. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 39.
73. Frederick C. Othman, “12 Pounds of False Hair No Help While Dancing,” St. Petersburg (FL) Times, October 20, 1942.
74. “Gene Kelly,” Silver Screen, April 1947.
75. Blair, The Memory of All That, 109.
76. George Benjamin, “Kelly Is the Name,” Modern Screen, August 1944.
77. “Gene Kelly: Hottest Thing in Town,” Movieland, April 1943.
78. Proctor, “Hey, Irish!”
79. Blair, The Memory of All That, 113.
8. New Heights
1. “Gene Kelly,” Motion Picture, January 1943.