Musicals, Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM. Dir. David Thompson, perf. Hugh Fordin, Cyd Charisse, Mickey Rooney. 1996; Hollywood: Turner Entertainment, 1996. Videocassette.
S’Wonderful: The Making of “An American in Paris.” Perf. Leslie Caron, André Guy, Claude Guy. 2008; Hollywood: Trailer Park, 2008. DVD.
Interviews
Cadman, Susan. E-mail interview with authors, January 5, 2015.
Novick, Kerry Kelly. Telephone interview with authors, June 25, 2015.
Sherman, Sally. Interview with authors, March 4, 2016.
Simone, Lela. Oral history, 1990. Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles.
Spivak, Jeffrey. E-mail interview with authors, March 31, 2014.
Websites
Gene Kelly: Creative Genius. www.freewebs.com/geneius.
Gene Kelly Fans. www.genekellyfans.com.
Internet Broadway Database. www.ibdb.com.
Internet Movie Database. www.imdb.com.
Index
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“Aba Daba Honeymoon” (song)
Abbott, George
ABC-TV
Academy Awards: Astaire’s honorary Oscar in 1950
Best Actor nomination for Anchors Aweigh
Best Song nomination for Marjorie Morningstar
fortieth anniversary of A Clockwork Orange
Gene’s Honorary Oscar
nominations for Brigadoon
won by An American in Paris
won by Gigi
won by Hello, Dolly!
won by Les Girls
won by Liza Minnelli for Cabaret
won by Marty
won by On the Town
won by Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
won by The Sound of Music
Act of Love (film)
Actors Lab
Adam’s Rib (film)
Adler, Renata
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (film project)
African tour
Age (Australian newspaper)
Agee, James
Ah! Wilderness (show)
alcohol: Gene’s drinking bouts with Selznick
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (Berlin)
Allen, Frederick Lewis
Allen, Steve
Allen, Woody
“All I Do Is Dream of You” (dance routine)
Allyson, June: Best Foot Forward
considered for Take Me out to the Ball Game
Van Johnson and
Panama Hattie
The Three Musketeers
Two Girls and a Sailor
Words and Music
“Alter Ego” (dance routine)
Alton, Robert: Christmas show at the Pittsburgh Playhouse
Easter Parade
Gene and
“Limehouse Blues Ballet” and
One for the Money and
Pal Joey and
The Pirate
“Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” dance routine and
Ziegfeld Follies film
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 show
Altrock, Nick
“Always” (song)
American Dream
American Federation of Labor Unions
American Film (magazine)
American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award
“American in Paris, An” (dance routine)
American in Paris, An (film)
Academy Awards won by
“An American in Paris” ballet
appeal of
Leslie Caron and
casting of
filming of and dance routines in
the Freed Unit success with musicals and
Gene’s mass appeal and
inception and storyline
reception of
Singin’ in the Rain compared to
subjective camera technique
American in Paris, An (show)
American in Pasadena, An (television special)
American Legion
American Masters (television show)
Anchors Aweigh (film)
Anderson, John Murray
Andrews, Julie
“Andy Amoureux” (dance routine)
Andy Hardy series
Angeli, Pier
Anger, Kenneth
anti-Catholicism
antihero
Archibald, William
Ardmore, Jane
Ardrey, Robert
Are You with It? (show)
Arlen, Harold
Armstrong, Louis
army and navy hospitals: Gene’s tours of
Arthur Freed Awards
Artist, The (film)
Asphalt Jungle, The (film)
Assembly Squad
Astaire, Adele
Astaire, Fred: The Barkleys of Broadway
On the Beach
on dancing with Cyd Charisse
death of
Easter Parade
Finian’s Rainbow
Freed Unit and
Funny Face
“Girl Hunt Ballet”
Honorary Oscar
influence on dance
jazz dance in the 1920s
“Limehouse Blues Ballet”
marriage to Robyn Smith
relationship with and influence on Gene
retirement in 1946
Debbie Reynolds and
Royal Wedding
“Shoes with Wings On” dance routine
That’s Entertainment! Part II
Three Little Words
toupees
use of props
on working on choreography
Yolanda and the Thief
Ziegfeld Follies
Atkinson, Brooks
Atlantic City
atomic bomb
Aubrey, James
“Babbit and the Bromide, The” (dance routine)
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (dance routine)
Bacall, Lauren
Bad and the Beautiful, The (film)
Baer, William
BAFTA United Nations Award
Bailey, Bill
Baily, Louise Kelly. See also Kelly, Louise
Bakey’s speakeasy
Balanchine, George
Ball, Lucille
ballet: “An American in Paris”
“Broadway Ballet”
“Coffeehouse Ballet”
“Death in the Afternoon”
dream ballet
Gene’s instruction in
Paris Opera Ballet project
The Red Shoes
“Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” dance in Words and Music
surreal ballet
Ballet Russes de Monte Carol
Ballyvaughan
Band Wagon, The (film)
Barbera, Joe
Barkleys of Broadway, The (film)
Barnes, Binnie
Barnes, Howard
Barrat, Maxine
Barrault, Jean Louis
Barrett, James Lee
Barrymore, Ethel
baseball
Basinger, Jeanine
Bathing Beauty (film)
Bautzer, Greg
Bavaria Studios
Bay Theatre
“Be a Clown” (dance routine)
“Be a Clown” (song)
Beau Geste (film)
“Beautiful Girl” (song)
Beautiful People, The (Saroyan)
Behlmer, Rudy
Benjamin Franklin (US aircraft carrier)
Benny, Jack
Berkeley, Busby: directorial style
Footlight Parade
influence on film musicals
influence on Gene
For Me and My Gal and
as a model for characters in Singin�
�� in the Rain
Take Me out to the Ball Game
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving
Berman, Pandro S.
Bernstein, Leonard
Bertha (Kelly housekeeper)
Bessy, Claude
Best Foot Forward (film adaptation)
Best Foot Forward (show)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (film)
Beth Shalom Synagogue
“Betsy with the Laughing Face” (song)
Beverly Hills St. Patrick’s Day Parade
“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” (song)
Bey, Turhan
Bill Haley and His Comets
Biography (magazine)
Bishop, Joey
black dancers: Gene’s rapport with
Black Hand, The (film)
black musicians
Black Pirate, The (film)
Blair, Betsy: “Betsy with the Laughing Face” song
birth and early life of
blacklisting of
Broadway roles
Susan Cadman and
on Combat Fatigue Irritability
on Jeanne Coyne
destruction of the North Rodeo Drive home by fire and
divorce from Gene
on Stanley Donen’s relationship with Gene
early relationship with Gene
first encounter with Gene and work at the Diamond Horseshoe club
on the Freed Unit
on Judy Garland
on Gene and dance
on Gene’s competitive nature
on Gene’s desire to make an all-dance film (see also Invitation to the Dance)
on Gene’s devotion to work
on Gene’s marriage to Patricia Ward
on Gene’s parents
on Gene’s paternalism
on Gene’s religious views
on Gene’s strokes and death
Golden Palm Award
on Rita Hayworth
on the impact of Dick Dwenger’s death on Gene
on the impact of the Great Depression on James Kelly
on Invitation to the Dance
joins the Actors Lab
on Kelly family troubles following the death of Gene
leftist political involvements
marriage to Karel Reisz in 1963
Marty and
on Lois McClelland
The Memory of All That
Roger Pigaut and
post-divorce relationship with Gene
on Billy Rose
in The Snake Pit
understudy in the The Glass Menagerie
Salka Viertel and
—MARRIED TO GENE: acclimatization to Hollywood under Selznick
birth of daughter Kerry
domestic life
European vacations
extramarital affairs
film roles in the postwar years
first pregnancy
Gene’s nickname for
Gene’s service in the navy and
honeymoon in Mexico
life and work in Europe in the early 1950s
life in New York City in 1940
marriage in 1941
move to Hollywood in 1941
at the opening of Pal Joey
parenting of Kerry
parties and social life in Hollywood
return from Europe in 1953
tenth anniversary present to Gene
Blane, Ralph
Blinsky’s Dancing School
Block, Gail
block booking
“Blue Danube Waltz” (dance routine)
“Blues” (song)
Blue Skies (film)
Blyden, Larry
Bogart, Humphrey
Boger, Elizabeth. See Blair, Betsy
Boger, Frederica
Boger, William
Bojangles. See Robinson, Bill
Bolger, Ray
Bolm, Adolph
Bolton, Lou
Booth Theatre
Bowman, Lee
Boyer, Charles
Brackett, Charles
Brando, Jocelyn
Brando, Marlon
Brantley, Ben
Brecht, Bertolt
Bremer, Lucille
Brenner, Jimmy
Brice, Fanny
Brigadoon (film)
Britton, Pamela
“Broadway Ballet” (dance routine)
Broadway Melody, The (film)
Broadway musicals: Gene as director of Flower Drum Song
Gene’s auditions in 1938
integrated dramatic musicals
Leave It to Me!
Little Theatre Movement and One for the Money
Vincente Minnelli’s influence on
Pal Joey. See also Kelly, Gene—STAGE CAREER
“Broadway Rhythm” (song)
Brown, Nacio Herb
Bubble, John
“Buckle Down, Winsocki” (song)
Burke, Billie
Burnett, Carol
“By Strauss” (dance routine)
Cabaret (film)
Cabbages and Kings (film)
Cadman, Susan
Cagney, James
Cahn, Sammy
Calhern, Louis
Calloway, Cab
Camp Porter. See YMCA Camp Porter
Canby, Vincent
Canfield, Alyce
Cannes Film Festival
Cansino, Angel
Capa, Robert
Cap and Gown shows
Capra, Frank
“Carioca, The” (dance routine)
Carney, Art
Caron, Leslie
Carpenter, Carleton
Carroll, Leo G.
cartoon dance routine
Castle, Nick
Catholicism: Betsy Blair and
Gene and
CBS-TV
Cecchetti Method
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Century Theatre
CFA. See Committee for the First Amendment
cha-cha
Chayefsky, Paddy
Chakiris, George
Champion, Gower
Chaplin, Charlie
Chaplin, Ethel
Chaplin, Oona
Chaplin, Saul: An American in Paris
Cover Girl
on Gene and Charles Vidor
on Gene and Kay Kendall
on Gene and Oscar Levant in An American in Paris
Les Girls
socializing with Gene and Betsy
Summer Stock
That’s Entertainment! Part II
On the Town
Chaplin, Sydney
Charisse, Cyd: at the 1982 Kennedy Center Honors for Gene
“An American in Paris” ballet
Brigadoon
on dancing with Gene
death of
It’s Always Fair Weather
Words and Music
Chartres
Chevalier, Maurice
Cheyenne Social Club, The (film)
Chicago: Gene and Fred’s visit to in 1932
Gene’s visit in 1934
One for the Money premiere
Chicago (film)
“Chicago” (song)
Chicago Association of Dance Masters
Chicago Tribune
Chicago World’s Fair
Chocolat Dancing in Achilles’ Bar (Toulouse-Lautrec)
Christmas Holiday (film)
cinedance: Brigadoon and
“Broadway Ballet”
Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and
Gene’s creation of
Donald O’Connor and
The Pirate and
“Ring around the Rosy” routine
“squeak floor” dance routine
“The Hat My Dear Old Father Wore” routine
CinemaScope
Citivan (high school newspaper)
civil rights moveme
nt
Clair, René
Clark, Bobby
Clift, Montgomery
Clinton, Bill
Clockwork Orange, A (film)
“cloops”
Cloutier, Suzanne
Clownaround (family theater show)
“Coffeehouse Ballet” (dance routine)
Cohan, George M.
Cohn, Harry
Colbert, Claudette
Cole, Jack
Collins, Joan
Colman, Ronald
Columbia Pictures
Combat Fatigue Irritability (navy film)
Comden, Betty: at the 1982 Kennedy Center Honors for Gene
An American in Paris
Fancy Free
at Gene’s and Betsy’s parties
on Gene’s domestic life after the divorce from Betsy
It’s Always Fair Weather
Kennedy Center Honors in 1991
The Magazine Page revue
the Revuers and
Singin’ in the Rain
Take Me out to the Ball Game
On the Town
What a Way to Go!
Writers Guild Award for Singin’ in the Rain
“Come Up to My Place” (song)
Committee for the First Amendment (CFA)
Communists and the Communist Party
Como, Perry
“Concerto in F” (Gershwin)
Conference of Studio Unions
Conneaut High School
Connelly, Joe
Cooke, Alistair
Cooper, Gary
Cooper, Sally
Coote, Robert
Coppola, Francis Ford
Cornell, Katharine
coronation parade of Queen Elizabeth
Cotten, Joseph
Cotton Club Review
“Couple of Swells, A” (dance routine)
Cover Girl (film): “Alter Ego” dance routine
Gene’s mass appeal and
production of
significance in Gene’s career
Coward, Nöel
Coyne, Jeanne: An American in Paris
arrival in Hollywood and entry into Gene’s home
Brigadoon
childhood memories of Gene
with Gene in Europe in the early 1950s
with Gene in New York in 1958
with Gene in Paris in 1960
Gene’s and Betsy’s divorce and
at Gene’s and Betsy’s Hollywood parties
as Gene’s assistant
increased responsibility at MGM
Invitation to the Dance
married to Stanley Donen
relationship with Gene after his divorce from Betsy
Singin’ in the Rain
Summer Stock
vacations in Europe with Gene and Kerry
—MARRIED TO GENE: birth of children
domestic life
Gene’s life following Jeanne’s death
Ireland vacation
leukemia and death of
marriage of Gene and Jeanne
pneumonia of
Crawford, Michael
Creelman, Eileen
Crest of the Wave (film)
Cronkite, Walter
Cronyn, Hume
Crosby, Bing
Cross of Lorraine, The (film)
Crown Theatre
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