19. “Gene Kelly,” Day (London), January 1970.
20. Ferguson, “Why Fred and I Rarely Starred Together.”
21. Michael Crawford, Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String (New York: Arrow, 2000), 154.
22. James Spada, Streisand: Her Life (New York: Crown, 1995), 216.
23. Ibid., 212–13.
24. Joyce Haber, “Gene Kelly Now Tapping out New Career as a Producer,” Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1969.
25. Spada, Streisand, 218.
26. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 257.
27. Spada, Streisand, 219.
28. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 219.
29. Ibid.
30. Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg, Matthau: A Life (Boulder, CO: Taylor Trade, 2002), 274, 193.
31. Crawford, Parcel Arrived Safely, 152, 158.
32. Ibid., 158.
33. Ibid.
34. “Star of Phantom Gives Gene Kelly Full Credit,” Los Angeles Times, April 11, 1990.
35. Ferguson, “Why Fred and I Rarely Starred Together.”
36. “Cinema: Echolalia,” Time, December 26, 1969.
37. Vincent Canby, “On Screen, Barbra Streisand Displays a Detached Cool,” New York Times, December 18, 1969.
38. Harry Clein, “Is There a Future for the Hollywood Musical?” Entertainment World, March 6, 1970.
39. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 28.
40. “On Combat Fatigue Irritability.”
41. Nancy Anderson, “Gene Kelly Wears Own Cockeyed Optimism,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), November 18, 1972.
42. Clein, “Is There a Future for the Hollywood Musical?”
43. “Gene Kelly,” Irish America.
44. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 261.
45. Gary Fishgall, Pieces of Time: The Life of James Stewart (New York: Scribner, 1997), 317.
46. “Gene Kelly,” Films Illustrated, 1974.
47. Michael Munn, Jimmy Stewart: The Truth behind the Legend (Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2006), 266.
48. Norman Dresser, “The Cheyenne Social Club is at Colony,” Toledo Blade, January 4, 1970.
49. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 265.
50. Marc Eliot, Jimmy Stewart: A Life (New York: Harmony, 2006), 371.
51. Thomas, The Films of Gene Kelly, 238.
52. Munn, Jimmy Stewart, 268.
53. “Gene Kelly’s Wonderful World of Girls,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, January 1970.
54. George Gant, “TV: A Satire about Shameful Secrets,” New York Times, January 15, 1970.
55. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 263.
56. Fishgall, Pieces of Time, 318.
57. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 266.
58. Jeff LaBrecque, “Malcolm McDowell on Stanley Kubrick: An All-Too-Human Artistic Genius,” Entertainment Weekly, November 24, 2014.
59. Kate Brown, “Stanley Kubrick Too ‘Cheap’ to Pay for ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’” Telegraph (London), January 2, 2014.
21. True Talent Shows Itself in Kindness
1. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 267.
2. Ibid., 268.
3. Ibid.
4. “Gene Kelly Back in Film,” Toledo Blade, February 17, 1973.
5. “40 Carats,” Variety, June 29, 1973.
6. Keith Garebian, The Making of “Cabaret” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 134.
7. Minnelli, I Remember It Well, 378.
8. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 268.
9. Tom Shales, “Gene Kelly Says He Never Wanted to Be a Movie Star,” Pittsburgh Press, June 29, 1974.
10. Novick, interview with authors.
11. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
12. “Gene Kelly,” American Way.
13. “Gene Kelly,” Woman’s Weekly (UK) July 17, 1976.
14. “Sincerity, Unrehearsed Charm Percolated by the Real Gene Kelly.”
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. “Gene Kelly,” Woman’s Weekly.
18. “To Dance or Not to Dance.”
19. Thomas, “Gene Kelly Singing the Blues over State of U.S. Musicals.”
20. Colin Dangaard, “Dancing Star Gene Kelly a Working Legend at 65,” Ottawa Citizen, March 9, 1978.
21. “Movie Memorabilia: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of,” New York Sunday Morning, February 22, 2015.
22. “Gene Kelly,” Disney Channel, March/April 1988.
23. Dangaard, “Dancing Star Gene Kelly a Working Legend at 65.”
24. Shales, “Gene Kelly Says He Never Wanted to Be a Movie Star.”
25. That’s Entertainment! dir. Jack Haley Jr., perf. Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli (1974; Culver City, CA: MGM, 2004), DVD.
26. “That’s Entertainment!” Lakeland (FL) Ledger, June 25, 1974.
27. “That’s Entertainment!” Chicago Tribune, May 20, 1974.
28. Shales, “Gene Kelly Says He Never Wanted to Be a Movie Star.”
29. “Gene Kelly Goes Legit Again after 33 Years.”
30. “Gene Kelly,” Woman’s Weekly.
31. “Gene Kelly Goes Legit Again after 33 Years.”
32. Wilson, Yesterday’s Mashed Potatoes, 236.
33. Ibid., 242.
34. Ibid.
35. Wintz, “Gene Kelly.”
36. Wilson, Yesterday’s Mashed Potatoes, 243.
37. Colleen Lester, “True Talent, Kindness, and Take Me Along,” Gene Kelly Fans, July 12, 2011, accessed September 21, 2015, http://genekellyfans.com/media/take-me-along/.
38. Wilson, Yesterday’s Mashed Potatoes, 245.
39. “Gene Kelly,” Woman’s Weekly.
40. Wintz, “Gene Kelly.”
41. Ferguson, “Why Fred and I Rarely Starred Together.”
42. Sally Davis, “Gene and Fred Together Again,” Los Angeles Supplement, May 1976.
43. Ibid.
44. Bob Thomas, “Movie Musicals Should Be Revived, Says Gene Kelly,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 12, 1975.
45. Levinson, Puttin’ on the Ritz, 376.
46. Davis, “Gene and Fred Together Again.”
47. Vincent Canby, “Magical Sequel to That’s Entertainment,” New York Times, May 17, 1976.
48. Stoop, “Gene Kelly.”
49. Levinson, Puttin’ on the Ritz, 377.
50. “Gene Kelly Rediscovered,” Boca Raton (FL) News, July 30, 1976.
51. “John Travolta,” Gene Kelly: Creative Genius, accessed September 20, 2015, http://www.freewebs.com/geneius/icouldencourageyou.htm.
52. Christian Toto, “Patricia Ward Kelly on Late Husband Gene Kelly’s All-American Legacy,” Breitbart (Hollywood), November 11, 2013.
53. “My Kids Talked Me into the Knievel Movie.”
54. “Viva Knievel!” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), July 28, 1976.
55. “My Kids Talked Me into the Knievel Movie.”
56. “Only Fans Will Cheer Knievel Film Featuring Slow Spills,” Ottawa Citizen, July 20, 1977.
57. “An American in Pasadena,” Gene Kelly: Creative Genius, accessed September 20, 2015, http://www.freewebs.com/geneius/cantyouseeimbusy.htm.
58. “Gene Kelly Still Has Charisma,” Levittown (PA) Courier Times, August 22, 1979.
59. Rochlin, “Old Is New Again.”
60. Bart Mills, “The Dance Today: A Step in Time with Gene Kelly,” Los Angeles Times, December 21, 1979.
61. Janet Maslin, “Miss Newton-John in Xanadu,” New York Times, August 9, 1980.
62. Ibid.
63. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 273.
64. “Gene Kelly: Dancing Isn’t Exciting Anymore,” TV Times, November 1983.
65. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 273.
66. Ibid.
67. Gene D. Phillips, Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2004), 54–55.
68. Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly, 274.
69. Ibid., 275.
70. Rochlin, “Old Is New Again.”
22. Contemporary Yet Timeless
1. Susan Peters, “Tim
Kelly Doesn’t Have Gene’s Magic Feet, but He Made Enough on an L.A. Dance Club to Become an American in Paris,” People, June 18, 1984.
2. “Gene Kelly at Seventy-Two,” St. Petersburg (FL) Times, August 4, 1984.
3. Ibid.
4. Irvin Molotsky, “Gene Kelly Brings Young Dancers to White House,” New York Times, March 29, 1982.
5. “Kennedy Center Honors,” CBS, December 25, 1982, television.
6. “Dancing Today Dismays Kelly,” Spokane Spokesman Review, December 16, 1983.
7. Rochlin, “Old Is New Again.”
8. Ibid.
9. Blair, The Memory of All That, 317.
10. Wintz, “Gene Kelly.”
11. Peters, “Tim Kelly Doesn’t Have Gene’s Magic Feet.”
12. Ibid.
13. “AFI Lifetime Achievement Award,” CBS, March 7, 1985, television.
14. Ibid.
15. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
16. Frank Rich, “The Stage: Singin’ in the Rain Opens,” New York Times, July 3, 1985.
17. Rochlin, “Old Is New Again.”
18. “Gene Kelly Heads St. Patrick’s Day Parade,” Rock Hill (SC) Herald, March 16, 1986.
19. “Gene Kelly Does Not Sing in the Rain on St. Patrick’s Day,” Rome (GA) News Tribune, March 18, 1986.
20. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
21. Blair, The Memory of All That, 4.
22. Barbra Paskin, “Singin’ in the Rain with Gene,” Lady (London), November 30, 2012.
23. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 214.
24. Blair, The Memory of All That, 4.
25. Yudkoff, Gene Kelly, 254–55.
26. Kevin Thomas, “Gene Kelly Remembers Golden Age of Musicals,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 3, 1993.
27. Caryn James, “Waste Not, Want Not: MGM’s Outtakes Are a Movie,” New York Times, May 6, 1994.
28. Degen Pener, “Egos and Ids; Ads to Die For? To Gene Kelly, It’s Yes and No,” New York Times, August 29, 1993.
29. Rubenstein, “An American in Style.”
30. Blair, The Memory of All That, 4.
31. Nadine Brozan, “Chronicle,” New York Times, February 14, 1995.
32. Blair, The Memory of All That, 5.
33. Joseph Barrios, “Gene Kelly Admired, Respected by Brother Fred,” Tucson Citizen, February 3, 1996.
34. Blair, The Memory of All That, 5.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid., 5–6.
37. Barrios, “Gene Kelly Admired, Respected by Brother Fred.”
38. Baer, “Singin’ in the Rain.”
39. Blair, The Memory of All That, 5.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., 6.
42. Blair, The Memory of All That, 116.
43. “Gene Kelly: Filmmaker Interview.”
44. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, 214.
45. Blair, The Memory of All That, 7.
46. Stephen Brook, “Blingin’ in the Rain,” Guardian (London), January 27, 2005.
47. Cadman, interview with authors.
48. Ben Brantley, “On the Town Revival Opens on Broadway,” New York Times, October 16, 2014.
49. Charles Isherwood, “An American in Paris, a Romance of Song and Step,” New York Times, April 12, 2015.
Epilogue
1. “Gene Kelly: Filmmaker Interview.”
2. “Kennedy Center Honors.”
3. W. H. Mooring, “Gene Kelly Is Home Again,” Picturegoer, September 14, 1946.
4. Rubenstein, “An American in Style.”
5. Alpert, “Gene Kelly.”
6. “Gene Kelly: Sex Sells,” Gainesville Sun, December 16, 1983.
7. Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer.
8. Updike, More Matter, 663–64.
9. “Liza Minnelli, 1996,” Gene Kelly: Creative Genius, accessed October 2, 2015, http://www.freewebs.com/geneius/icouldencourageyou.htm.
10. “Singin’ in the Rain,” blogcritics.org, July 29, 2015, accessed October 4, 2015, http://blogcritics.org/dvd-review-singin-in-the-rain/.
11. “AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.”
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Films and Television
Dancing: A Man’s Game. Perf. Gene Kelly, Dick Button, Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson. Omnibus, December 21, 1958. New York: NBC, 2013. DVD.
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dance. Dir. Robert Trachtenberg, perf. Betsy Blair, Stanley Donen, Kerry Kelly Novick. 2002; New York: American Masters, 2002. DVD.
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