Pirate, The (film)
“Pirate Ballet, The” (dance routine)
Pittsburgh: Gene Kelly School of Dance
Gene’s adolescent years
Gene’s college years at the University of Pittsburgh
Gene’s family history and early life in
Gene’s return from Europe in 1953
Gene’s shows and revues in the 1930s
Gene’s visit to family in 1939
the Kellys’ vaudeville performances in the 1930s
Lou Bolton’s Dance Studio
Pittsburgh Hotel
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh Playhouse
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Press
Pittsburgh State University
Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets
Pius XII
Place in the Sun, A (film)
Point Counterpoint (Huxley)
Polish Folk Hall
Pontiac Star Parade (television series)
“Poor John” (dance routine)
pop stars: of the 1970s
Porter, Cole: “Be a Clown,”
Du Barry Was a Lady
Gene and
impact of rock and roll on musicals and
Leave It to Me!
Les Girls
The Pirate
Portnoy, Ruth
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Powell, Dick
Powell, Eleanor
Powell, Jane
Presenting Lily Mars (film)
Presley, Elvis
Previn, André
Price, Vincent
Private Miss Jones (film)
Progressive Party
Prohibition
props: in dancing
Puckane
Queen Mary (HMS)
Radio City Music Hall
Radvansky, Harriet Joan Kelly. See also Kelly, Harriet
Ragland, Rags
ragtime
Rainbow Room
Rank Organization
Rapper, Irving
Reagan, Ronald and Nancy
Red Scare
Red Shoes, The (film)
Rehill, Anne Collier
Reisz, Karel
religion: Gene’s views of. See also Catholicism
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
Revue of Revues (show)
Revuers
Reynolds, Debbie: collection of iconic MGM pieces
death of
Gene and
on MGM in 1949
rerelease of Singin’ in the Rain and
Singin’ in the Rain
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
on working at MGM
“rhythm tap” (dance style)
Rich, Frank
Ridgeway Summer Theatre
Riha, Bobby
“Ring around the Rosy” (dance routine)
Ritt, Martin
River Thames boat trip
RKO studio
Robbins, Jerome
Robe, The (film)
Roberts, Franklin
Robeson, Paul
Robin and the Seven Hoods (film)
Robinson, Bill (Bojangles)
Robinson, Edward G.
Robinson, Sugar Ray
Rochefort-sur-Mer
rock and roll
Rodgers, Richard: Best Foot Forward
Flower Drum Song
Green Grow the Lilacs
Pal Joey
Words and Music biopic about
Rogers, Ginger
Romberg, Sigmund
Rome
Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)
Rooney, Mickey: Judy Garland and
The Human Comedy
influence of Shirley Temple on
with MGM
postwar film career
Thousand Cheers
Words and Music
World War II and
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rose, Billy
Rose, David
Rousseau, Henri
Royal Ballet School
Royal Film Performance
Royal Roost, The (show)
Royal Wedding (film)
Rubenstein, Hal
Rubin, Martin
Rumanian chain dance
Russell, Rosalind
Sacred Heart School
Salinger, Conrad
Sally (play)
Sandberg, Carl
San Francisco
San Moritz
Santa Claus (film project)
Santa Fe
Saroyan, William
Satchmo (film project)
Saturday Evening Post
Saturday Night Fever (film)
Saturday Review
Savoy Hotel
Scaroon Lake
Scaroon Manor
Schacht, Al
Schallert, Edwin
Schary, Dore: An American in Paris and
“An American in Paris” ballet and
Betsy Blair’s blacklisting and
Brigadoon and
departure from MGM
Arthur Freed and
Adolph Green on
Louis B. Mayer and
MGM softball team and
Schenck, Nick
Schenectady Gazette
Scheuer, Philip
Schlitz Playhouse (television series)
Schwartz, Arthur
Schwartz, Jean
Scorsese, Martin
Screen Actors Guild
Screen Album
Screenland (magazine)
Seagulls over Sorrento (film)
Segal, Vivienne
Selwyn Theatre
Selznick, David O.: considers Gene for The Keys to the Kingdom
drinking bouts with Gene
hiring of Gene
loans Gene to MGM for For Me and My Gal
management of Selznick
International
“the studio will take care of it” treatment of Gene and Betsy
Selznick International
Senegal
Sennett, Mack
Seven Arts Productions
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (film)
Seventeen
“sex” comedy films
Seymour, Felix
Shake, Rattle, and Rock! (film)
Sharaff, Irene
Shaw, Irwin
Shayon, Robert Lewis
Shearer, Moira
Shearer, Norma
Sheldon, Sidney
“Shoes with Wings On” (dance routine)
Show Is On, The (show)
“Show Must Go On, The” (dance routine)
Shubert Brothers
Shubert Theatre
Sidney, George
Siegel, Joe
Siegel, Sol C.
Silver Domino (show)
Silverman, Stephen M.
Silvers, Phil
Silver Screen (magazine)
Simone, Lela: on Betty Comden and Adolph Green
on the filming of On the Town
on Judy Garland
on Gene and Judy Garland
on Gene’s relationship with Vincent Minnelli
Invitation to the Dance
on the making of An American in Paris
on the making of Singin’ in the Rain
on the relationship between Dore Schary and Arthur Freed
on Dore Schary as head of production at MGM
Sinatra, Frank: Anchors Aweigh
Committee for the First Amendment
considered for It’s Always Fair Weather
death of
in the film Pal Joey
on Gene as a teacher
High Society
narration in That’s Entertainment
nickname for Gene
Robin and the Seven Hoods
support for John Kennedy
Take Me out to the Ball Game
On the Town
Patricia Ward and
“Sinbad the Sailor” (dance r
outine)
Singer, Michael
“Singin’ in the Rain” (dance routine)
Singin’ in the Rain (film): awards received by
casting and preproduction
compared to An American in Paris
critical and popular reaction to
filming of and dance routines in
Arthur Freed’s commissioning of
Gene’s mass appeal and
Gene’s roles in the making of
inception of
It’s Always Fair Weather and
rerelease in 2012
significance of
storyline and songs in
Singin’ in the Rain (show)
“Singin’ in the Rain” (song)
“Singin’ in the Rain” (spoof song)
Sing Out the News (show)
Sins (television miniseries)
Siodmak, Robert
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden
situation comedies
Skelton, Red
Slattery, Willie
“Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” (dance routine)
Smith, Al
Smith, Jack Martin
Smith, Robyn
Snake Pit, The (film)
Sombert, Claire
Song of the South (film)
Sound of Music, The (film)
So You Think You Can Dance? (television show)
Spanish dance
Spivak, Jeffrey
sports: Gene’s competitiveness in volleyball
Gene’s love for in high school
“Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year” (song)
“squeak floor” dance routine
“St. Louis Blues” (dance routine)
St. Petersburg Times
St. Raphael Grammar School
Stage (magazine)
stage employees strike
Stamford Connecticut Community Playhouse
Stand Up and Cheer (film)
Stanislavsky method
Stanley Theatre
Star is Born, A (film)
Star Tavern
State Theatre
Steele, Tommy
Steinberg, Jules
Stewart, James
stock market crash of 1929
Stockwell, Dean
Stoop, Norma McLain
Storch, Larry
Stothart, Herbert
Stradling, Harry
Streetcar Named Desire, A (film)
Streisand, Barbra
“Strictly U.S.A.” (dance routine)
strokes: suffered by Gene
studio system
“studio will take care of it” syndrome
stunt work: by Gene in The Pirate
subjective camera technique
submariners
Submarine Warfare: Now It Can Be Told (navy film)
Summer Holiday (show)
Summer Stock (film)
“Sunny Side of the Street” (dance routine)
Superstar Theatre
“Sure Thing” (dance routine)
surreal ballet
Suzuki, Pat
Swarthmore Convalescent Hospital
Sweeney in the Trees (Saroyan)
Sweet Charity (film)
Switzerland: Gene’s vacations with Betsy in
Gene’s vacations with Jeanne Coyne and Kerry
Kerry attends Geneva International School
premier of Invitation to the Dance in
“S’Wonderful” (dance routine)
Take Me Along (show)
Take Me out to the Ball Game (film)
Tandy, Jessica
tap dance: Fred Astaire and
Gene on
Irish dance and
“rhythm tap”
Tapps, Georgie
tax exemption law
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Robert
Teahouse of the August Moon (film)
Technicolor: The Pirate and
television: Dancing: A Man’s Game
Dancing Is a Man’s Sport, Too
Gene Kelly in New York, New York
The Gene Kelly Show
Gene Kelly’s Wonderful World of Girls
Gene’s first television appearance
Going My Way television series
host of Young American Artists in Performance at the White House
impact on Hollywood and MGM
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Julie Andrews Show
Pontiac Star Parade appearances
rising popularity of in the 1950s
satirized by It’s Always Fair Weather
situation comedies
Temple, Shirley
Tenney Committee
Thalberg, Irving
Tharp, Twyla
That’s Dancing! (film)
That’s Entertainment (film)
“That’s Entertainment” (song)
That’s Entertainment! Part II (film)
That’s Entertainment! Part III (film)
Thau, Benny
Theatre Arts (magazine)
Theatre Guild
Thief of Baghdad, The (film)
“This Heart of Mine” (dance routine)
Thomas, J. Parnell
Thomas, Kevin
Thomas, Tony
Thompson, J. Lee
Thompson, Kay
Thousands Cheer (film)
Three Caballeros, The (film)
Three Little Words (film)
Three Musketeers, The (film; 1921)
Three Musketeers, The (film; 1948)
Till the Clouds Roll By (film)
Till the End of Time (film)
Time magazine (reviews in): An American in Paris
Anchors Aweigh
The Cheyenne Social Club
A Guide for the Married Man
Hello, Dolly!
It’s Always Fair Weather
Marjorie Morningstar
For Me and My Gal
Time of Your Life, The (play)
To Have and Have Not (film)
Toledo Blade
Tony Awards
Too Many Girls (show)
Toreadors debate society
Torme, Mel
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
Toumanova, Tamara
toupees
Trachtenberg, Robert
Tracy, Spencer
Trailer Ho! (show)
“Tra La La La” (dance routine)
Transcona Enterprises
Trauner, Alexandre
Travolta, John
“True Love” (song)
Truman, Harry
Trumbo, Dalton
Tucker, Sophie
Tugend, Harry
Tune, Tommy
Tunnel of Love, The (film)
Turner, Lana
Turner, Ted
Turner Classic Movies
TV Radio Mirror
Twentieth Century-Fox: Gene directs A Guide for the Married Man
Gigot
Hello, Dolly!
screen test offer to Betsy Blair
The Sound of Music
What a Way to Go!
Two Girls and a Sailor (film)
Two Weeks with Love (film)
Two Weeks with Pay (revue)
Ubangi
Ullman, Liv
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (film)
Umeki, Miyoshi
Unitas, Johnny
Universal Studios: Christmas Holiday
film offers to Gene in the mid-1960s
founding of
Inherit the Wind
Xanadu
University of Pittsburgh: Gene Kelly Award
Gene’s attendance at (see also Cap and Gown shows)
University of Pittsburgh Law School
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (film)
Updike, John
Upper Volta
US Navy: Gene’s service in with the Naval Air Force Photographic Unit
USO activities
/> US State Department
Utrillo, Maurice
Van Dyke, Dick
Van Fleet, Jo
van Gogh, Vincent
Van Heusen, Jimmy
Variety
vaudeville
Vera-Ellen
“Very Precious Love, A” (song)
veteran housing shortage
Vidor, Charles
Vieira, Mark
Viertel, Salka
Viva Knievel! (film)
Volkswagen commercial
volleyball
von Stroheim, Erich
von Tilzer, Albert
“Voodoo” (dance routine)
Waiting for the Ships That Never Come In (show)
Wald, Jerry
Walker, Nancy
Walker, Robert
Walter, Charles
Walters, Charles: Robert Alton and
choreography in Du Barry Was a Lady
Easter Parade
film adaptation of Best Foot Forward and
Good News
Summer Stock
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Ziegfeld Follies
Ward, Patricia: family troubles following the death of Gene and
first meeting and early relationship with Gene
on Gene’s response to A Clockwork Orange
Gene’s strokes and death
as guardian of Gene’s image and legacy
marriage to Gene
Ward, Richard Somerset
Warfield, William
Warner, Jack
Warner Brothers: 42nd Street and
East of Eden
end of block booking and
Marjorie Morningstar
Robin and the Seven Hoods
A Star is Born
Warrick, Ruth
waterless cookers
WAVEs
Wayne, John
“Wearing of the Green” (song)
Webster, Paul Francis
“Wedding of the Painted Doll” (song)
Weiler, A. H.
Welles, H. G.
Welles, Orson
Wells, George
Westport Country Playhouse
West Side Story (film)
What a Way to Go! (film)
What’s the Matter with Steve? (navy film)
Wheeldon, Christopher
“When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” (song)
Whipple, Sidney
White Christmas (film)
“Why Am I So Gone about That Girl?” (dance routine)
Widmark, Richard
Wilder, Thornton
Wilkerson, William R.
Williams, Esther
Will Rogers Memorial Garden
Wilson, Carey
Wilson, Elizabeth
Wilson, Kate and Penelope
Wilson, Patricia
Winchell, Walter
Winters, Shirley
Wise, James E.
Wise, Robert
Wise, Ron
With a Song in My Heart (film)
Wizard of Oz, The (film)
Wolf, Barbara
Wolves softball team
Woman’s Weekly
Wood, Natalie
Woodward Hotel
Words and Music (film)
World War II: atomic bombing of Japan
D-Day
Gene’s army and navy hospitals tours
Gene’s focus on his work during
Gene’s service in the navy
Gene’s USO activities and work at the Hollywood Canteen
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