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He's Got Rhythm: The Life and Career of Gene Kelly (Screen Classics)

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by Cynthia Brideson

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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