12. Blair, The Memory of All That, 190.
13. Ibid., 227–28, 183.
14. Novick, interview with authors.
15. Blair, The Memory of All That, 180, 231.
16. Ibid., 189.
17. “Film Article: Invitation to the Dance,” Turner Classic Movies, accessed July 17, 2015, http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/154948|0/Invitation-to-the-Dance.html.
18. Fordin, MGM’s Greatest Musicals, 393.
19. Fuller, “And Now, the Real Kicker.”
20. “Invitation to the Dance,” Screenland, January 1953.
21. “Film Article: Invitation to the Dance.”
22. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 193.
23. Linet, “An American in London.”
24. Blair, The Memory of All That, 184.
25. “Gene Kelly in London,” Screen Stars, June 1953.
26. “Gene Kelly,” Motion Picture and Television, January 1953.
27. “Dancer Has Confidence in His No-Dialogue Film,” Victoria (TX) Advocate, December 23, 1953.
28. Hugh Samson, “My, This Kelly’s Keen,” Picturegoer, October 11, 1952.
29. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 203.
30. “Gene Kelly,” Motion Picture, May 1954.
31. “Anybody Here Seen Kelly?” Picturegoer, July 17, 1954.
32. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 121.
33. “Crest of the Wave, British Film, Opens at Guild,” New York Times, November 11, 1954.
34. “Dancer Benefits, Salary Tax-Free,” Spokane Daily Chronicle, March 5, 1953.
35. McHugh, Alan Jay Lerner, 44.
36. Britten and Brash, The American Dream, 36.
37. “Gene Kelly Back Home,” Pittsburgh Press, June 1953.
38. “Gene Kelly,” Motion Picture and Television, May 1954.
39. Blair, The Memory of All That, 232.
40. Stoop, “Gene Kelly.”
41. Fordin, MGM’s Greatest Musicals, 427.
42. Levy, Vincente Minnelli, 248–49.
43. “Gene Kelly,” Screen Album, November 1954.
44. Hortense Morton, “Gene Kelly Talks about Brigadoon,” San Francisco Examiner, October 10, 1954.
45. Charisse and Martin, The Two of Us, 206.
46. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 126.
47. Charisse and Martin, The Two of Us, 203.
48. Bosley Crowther, “Brigadoon: Cyd Charisse, Gene Kelly Are Starred Musical Fantasy Seen at the Music Hall,” New York Times, September 17, 1954.
49. Minnelli, I Remember It Well, 281.
50. Charisse and Martin, The Two of Us, 207.
51. Ibid.
52. Minnelli, I Remember It Well, 281.
53. Simone, oral history.
54. Ibid.
55. McHugh, Alan Jay Lerner, 39.
56. Ibid., 41, 54.
57. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 197.
58. Minnelli, I Remember It Well, 280–81.
59. Ibid., 281.
60. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 131.
61. Singer, A Cut Above, 150.
62. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 158.
63. Bosley Crowther, “The Screen in Review: Romberg Film, Mostly Music, at Radio City,” New York Times, December 10, 1954.
64. “Gene Kelly’s Marriage on the Rocks?” Movie Pix, February 1954.
65. Blair, The Memory of All That, 218.
66. Ibid.
67. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 132.
68. Ken Ferguson, “Why Fred and I Rarely Starred Together,” Photoplay, August 1976.
69. “Gene Kelly,” Observer, November 10, 1968.
17. The Unhappy Road
1. Daniell and McGilligan, “Betty Comden and Adolph Green,” 84.
2. Hess and Dabholkar, “Singin’ in the Rain,” 202; Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 214.
3. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 207.
4. Ibid., 206.
5. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 209.
6. Daniell and McGilligan, “Betty Comden and Adolph Green,” 84.
7. Singer, A Cut Above, 149.
8. It’s Always Fair Weather, dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, perf. Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Dan Dailey Jr. (1955; Hollywood: MGM, 2006), DVD.
9. Hess and Dabholkar, “Singin’ in the Rain,” 202–3.
10. Ibid., 202.
11. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 212.
12. Victoria Large, “Clouds and Scattered Sun: Kelly and Donen’s It’s Always Fair Weather,” Bright Lights Film Journal, August 1, 2006.
13. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
14. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 212.
15. Bosley Crowther, “Screen: A Butcher in Love in the Bronx; Marty, Adapted from TV, Stars Borgnine,” New York Times, April 12, 1955.
16. Nate Edwards, “I Am the Husband of Betsy Blair,” Modern Screen, November 1955.
17. Blair, The Memory of All That, 264.
18. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 213.
19. “Gene Kelly,” American Film, February 1979.
20. Fordin, MGM’s Greatest Musicals, 436.
21. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 206.
22. “Cinema: Current and Choice,” Time, October 24, 1955.
23. Bosley Crowther, “Screen: Kidding Video,” New York Times, September 16, 1955.
24. Maynard, “This Is about Gene Kelly.”
25. “Gene Kelly,” Motion Picture and Television, May 1954.
26. Blair, The Memory of All That, 233.
27. “Invitation to the Dance,” Schweitzer Rotes-Zeitung (Zurich), April 1, 1956; “Invitation to the Dance,” Daily Mirror (London), May 23, 1956.
28. Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies (New York: Picador, 1982), 369.
29. Bosley Crowther, “Screen: Twinkle-Toes; Gene Kelly Performs in All-Dance Film,” New York Times, May 23, 1956.
30. “Invitation to the Dance,” Dance, June 1956.
31. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 170.
32. Singer, A Cut Above, 195.
33. Gene Kelly, “The Happy Road,” The Happy Road, dir. Gene Kelly, perf. Gene Kelly, Brigitte Fossey, Bobby Clark (Hollywood: MGM, 1957), film.
34. Blair, The Memory of All That, 233.
35. Ibid., 234.
36. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 215.
37. Ibid., 214.
38. Ibid.
39. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
40. “Gene Kelly, Wife in Trial Separation,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 11, 1956.
41. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 216.
42. “Gene Kelly on The Happy Road,” Film Show Annual, 1959.
43. “The Happy Road,” Age (Melbourne), January 22, 1957.
44. Peter Evans, “Gene Kelly,” Observer (London), November 10, 1968.
45. “Reconciliation Possible,” St. Petersburg (FL) Times, September 26, 1956.
46. Blair, The Memory of All That, 234.
47. Ibid., 235.
48. Ibid., 245.
49. Ibid., 239.
50. Ibid., 145.
51. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 217.
52. Ibid., 221.
53. Chaplin, The Golden Age of Movie Musicals, 165.
54. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 219.
55. Ibid., 220.
56. Chaplin, The Golden Age of Movie Musicals, 166.
57. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 173.
58. Bosley Crowther, “The Screen: Les Girls,” New York Times, October 4, 1957.
59. “Gene Kelly’s Back,” Picturegoer, November 2, 1957.
60. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 22.
61. Hay, MGM, 313.
62. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 22.
63. “Gene Kelly’s Television Debut,” Toledo Blade, January 26, 1957.
64. Walter Ames, “Gene Kelly Stars in Drama; Films Change TV Habits,” Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1956.
65. “Gene Kelly Makes Television Debut,” Toledo Blade, January 26, 1957.
66. “Gene Kelly in Debut o
n Schlitz Playhouse,” New York Times, March 2, 1957.
67. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
18. A Hundred Million Miracles
1. “Gene Kelly,” Films Illustrated, August 1980.
2. “Gene Kelly in Marjorie Morningstar,” Toledo Blade, April 12, 1958.
3. “Gene Kelly,” Screen Album, May 1958.
4. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 190.
5. Marjorie Morningstar, dir. Irving Rapper, perf. Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Ed Wynn (1958; Hollywood: Warner Bros., 2002), DVD.
6. Wintz, “Gene Kelly.”
7. “Gene Kelly’s Birthday Celebration,” Screen Stories, April 1958.
8. “Cinema: The New Pictures,” Time, April 28, 1958.
9. A. H. Weiler, “Version of Wouk Novel Opens at Music Hall,” New York Times, April 25, 1958.
10. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 190.
11. Dorothy Kilgallen, “Gene Kelly Seems to Be Dating Jean Coyne Almost Exclusively!” St. Petersburg (FL) Times, April 29, 1959.
12. Blair, The Memory of All That, 249.
13. Ibid., 313.
14. “Elizabeth Wilson, ‘Miss MacCracken’ in the Film,” Gene Kelly: Creative Genius, accessed August 7, 2015, http://www.freewebs.com/geneius/itllbework-hardwork.htm.
15. Joe Hyams, “The Do-It-Yourself Director,” Los Angeles Times, September 7, 1958.
16. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 198.
17. Bosley Crowther, “Tunnel of Love: Widmark, Doris Day Star in Roxy Film,” New York Times, November 22, 1958.
18. “Gene Kelly: Director,” Toledo Blade, April 12, 1958.
19. Don Alpert, “Gene Kelly: Guy without a Trade,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1964.
20. Morley and Leon, Gene Kelly, 141.
21. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 203.
22. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 223.
23. “Gene Kelly Returns to Broadway,” Theatre Arts, December 1958.
24. Hugh Fordin, Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II (New York: Random House, 1977), 342.
25. Rodgers, Musical Stages, 295.
26. Brooks Atkinson, “Flower Song,” New York Times, December 7, 1958.
27. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 225.
28. “Gene Kelly Interview with Edward Murrow.”
29. “Gene Kelly,” Irish America.
30. Dancing: A Man’s Game.
31. John Crosby, “Gene Kelly Proved ‘It’s a Man’s Game,’” St. Petersburg (FL) Times, December 24, 1958.
32. “Dancing: A Man’s Game,” Variety, UCLA Film and TV Archive, Los Angeles.
33. Crosby, “Gene Kelly Proved ‘It’s a Man’s Game.’”
34. “Gene Kelly Talks about Dancing: A Man’s Game,” Australian Woman’s Weekly, August 1976.
35. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 227.
36. The Gene Kelly Show, dir. Joseph Cates, perf. Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Cherylene Lee, Pontiac Star Parade, April 24, 1959, NBC.
37. “I Could Encourage You,” Gene Kelly: Creative Genius, accessed August 28, 2015, www.freewebs.com/geneius/icouldencourageyou.htm.
38. Minnelli, I Remember It Well, 338.
39. “Liza: Fire, Air, and a Touch of Anguish,” Time, February 28, 1972.
40. Robert Lewis Shayon, “The Gene Kelly Show,” Saturday Review, May 16, 1959.
41. Bob Thomas, “Gene Kelly Talking: Not Making Musicals So Switching to TV,” Ottawa Citizen, April 22, 1959.
42. “Gene Kelly: Song and Dance Man,” Films Illustrated, November 1974.
43. Inherit the Wind, dir. Stanley Kramer, perf. Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly (1960; Hollywood: United Artists, 2001), DVD.
44. Stanley Kramer, A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Life in Hollywood (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997), 172.
45. Inherit the Wind, AFI Catalog of Feature Films, accessed August 11, 2015, http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=53192.
46. Bosley Crowther, “Inherit the Wind,” New York Times, October 13, 1960.
47. “Gene Kelly,” Reflections, February 2, 1994, AMC.
48. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 204.
49. Patricia Wilson, Yesterday’s Mashed Potatoes: The Fabulous Life of a Happy Has-Been (Indianapolis: Dog Ear, 2009), 187.
50. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 230.
51. Pontiac Star Parade, dir. Sidney Miller, perf. Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Carol Lawrence, November 21, 1959, NBC.
52. “Pontiac Star Parade,” TV Radio Mirror, November 1959.
53. Jack Gould, “TV: In Song and Dance,” New York Times, April 25, 1959.
54. Hedda Hopper, “The Toast of Paris,” Chicago Tribune, October 9, 1960.
55. Susan Heller Anderson, “Tout Paris Offers Its ‘Hommage a Gene Kelly,’” New York Times, September 19, 1981.
19. “I wear so many hats”
1. “Old Faces: Sextuple Threat,” Time, August 4, 1967.
2. “Our Ballet Is Best, Says Gene Kelly,” Indianapolis Star, October 14, 1959.
3. “Gene Kelly’s Paris Ballet,” Newsweek, July 7, 1960.
4. Kisselgoff, “Gene Kelly: Ballet Influenced His View of Dance.”
5. “Gene Kelly’s Paris Ballet.”
6. “Ballet by Kelly Cheered in Paris,” New York Times, July 7, 1960.
7. “Gene Kelly’s Paris Ballet.”
8. “Gene Kelly’s French Frolic,” Life, August 1960.
9. “Ballet by Kelly Cheered in Paris.”
10. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 232.
11. Kisselgoff, “Gene Kelly: Ballet Influenced His View of Dance.”
12. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 234.
13. Bosley Crowther, “The Screen: Milton Berle Steals Show in Let’s Make Love,” New York Times, September 9, 1960.
14. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 206.
15. Ardmore, “Holy Man or Holy Terror?”
16. Novick, interview with authors.
17. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 235.
18. “Gene Kelly Prefers the Foxtrot,” Times Daily (London), March 15, 1986.
19. Blair, The Memory of All That, 166.
20. Barbara Wolf, “The Art of Gene Kelly,” Film Buff, February 1976.
21. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 236.
22. “A Man and His Loving Memories,” Woman (London), December 15, 1973.
23. William Henry III, The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 208.
24. James Bacon, How Sweet It Is: The Jackie Gleason Story (New York: St. Martin’s, 1985), 156.
25. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 237.
26. Henry, The Great One, 209.
27. Bacon, How Sweet It Is, 155.
28. Bosley Crowther, “The Screen: Gleason’s Gigot: Story of Parisian Mute Opens in Music Hall,” New York Times, September 28, 1962.
29. Ardmore, “Holy Man or Holy Terror?”
30. John P. Shanley, “Going My Way,” New York Times, September 30, 1962.
31. “Going My Way,” Gene Kelly: Creative Genius, accessed August 12, 2015, www.freewebs.com/geneius/cantyouseeimbusy.htm.
32. Ardmore, “Holy Man or Holy Terror?”
33. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 238.
34. Ardmore, “Holy Man or Holy Terror?”
35. Vince Leonard, “Kelly: Pittsburgher in New York,” Pittsburgh Press, February 11, 1966.
36. Philip Scheuer, “Gene Kelly, 51, Still Has That Stardust in His Eyes and Twinkle in His Toes,” Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1963.
37. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 240.
38. Betty Beale, “JFK, Gene Kelly Sing Irish Song,” St. Petersburg (FL) Times, January 27, 1963.
39. “Gene Kelly Back from Africa Tour,” Los Angeles Times, January 29, 1964.
40. “Kelly Returns,” St. Petersburg (FL) Evening Independent, January 29, 1964.
41. “Gene Kelly,” The Steve Allen Playhouse, Westinghouse TV, February 18, 1964, television.
42. Bob Thomas, “Shock Is Worldwide on Marilyn’s Death,” Toledo Blade,
August 6, 1962.
43. “American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, 1985,” CBS, March 7, 1985, television.
44. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 216.
45. Bosley Crowther, “Poor Little Rich Girl’s Woes,” New York Times, May 15, 1964.
46. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 214.
47. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 243.
48. “A Man and His Loving Memories.”
49. “Gene Kelly on Being a Parent,” Star, February 1996.
50. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 243.
51. “Kerry Kelly,” Gene Kelly: Creative Genius, accessed August 12, 2015, www.freewebs.com/geneius/ohiknowyou.htm.
52. Novick, interview with authors.
53. Julia Hirsch, The Sound of Music: The Making of America’s Favorite Movie (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), 13.
54. “The Julie Andrews Show,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 27, 1965.
55. “Gene Kelly Goes Legit Again after 33 Years.”
56. “A Man and His Loving Memories.”
20. Looking for Enchantment
1. “Kelly Jumps at Opportunity to Play Part,” Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune, December 28, 1972.
2. “Gene Kelly: Filmmaker Interview,” PBS.org, June 8, 2006, accessed October 4, 2015, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/kelly_g_interview.html.
3. Gene Kelly in New York, New York, dir. Charles Dubin, perf. Gene Kelly, Woody Allen, Tommy Steele, February 14, 1966, CBS.
4. Julie Carpenter, “Tommy Steele: I’m 75 and My Palladium Comeback Shows That I’ll Never Retire,” Express, November 2012.
5. “Gene Kelly in New York, New York,” Chicago Tribune, February 15, 1966.
6. “Gene Kelly,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 21, 1967.
7. “Gene Kelly, Jack and the Beanstalk, and an Interview with Bobby Riha,” January 18, 2013, Gene Kelly Fans, accessed October 2, 2015, http://genekellyfans.com/television/beanstalk/.
8. “Jack and the Beanstalk,” Dance, February 1967.
9. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 220.
10. Ibid., 219.
11. Ibid., 222.
12. Renata Adler, “Screen: Offbeat, Dreamlike Musical; Demy’s Young Girls of Rochefort,” New York Times, April 12, 1968.
13. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 244.
14. Ibid., 244.
15. “Gene Kelly, a Private Man,” Daily Express (London), October 13, 1976.
16. “Old Faces: Sextuple Threat.”
17. Ibid.
18. Bosley Crowther, “Screen: Guide for the Married Man; Matthau and Morse in Farce on Infidelity,” New York Times, May 27, 1967.
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