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Sid & Judy

as

2019
That's Entertainment! III

as Self - Co-Host / Narrator

1994
Xanadu

as Danny McGuire

1980
Viva Knievel!

as Will Atkins

1977
That's Entertainment, Part II

as Self - Co-Host / Narrator

1976
That's Entertainment!

as Self - Host / Narrator

1974
40 Carats

as Billy Boylan

1973
Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back

as Singer, dancer (Guest Performer)

1973
What a Way to Go!

as Pinky Benson

1964
Inherit the Wind

as E.K. Hornbeck

1960
Marjorie Morningstar

as Noel Airman

1958
Les Girls

as Barry Nichols

1957
Invitation to the Dance

as Host / Pierrot / The Marine / Sinbad

1956
It's Always Fair Weather

as Ted Riley

1955
Brigadoon

as Tommy Albright

1954
Singin' in the Rain

as Don Lockwood

1952
The Devil Makes Three

as Jeff Eliot

1952
An American in Paris

as Jerry Mulligan

1951
It's a Big Country

as Icarus Xenophon

1951
Black Hand

as Giovanni E. 'Johnny' Columbo

1950
Summer Stock

as Joe D. Ross

1950
On the Town

as Gabey

1949
Take Me Out to the Ball Game

as Eddie O'Brien

1949
The Pirate

as Serafin

1948
The Three Musketeers

as D'Artagnan

1948
Living in a Big Way

as Leo Gogarty

1947
Anchors Aweigh

as Joseph Brady

1945
Ziegfeld Follies

as Gentleman (segment The Babbit and the Bromide)

1945
Cover Girl

as Danny McGuire

1944
Christmas Holiday

as Robert Manette

1944
Gene Kelly Gene Kelly

Birthday

1912-08-23

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s, until they fell out of fashion in the late 1950s. Kelly is best known today for his performances in films such as Cover Girl (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, On the Town (1949), which was his directorial debut, An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Brigadoon (1954), and It's Always Fair Weather (1955). Kelly made his film debut with Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (1942), and followed by Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), Thousands Cheer (1943), The Pirate (1948), Summer Stock (1950), and Les Girls (1957) among others. After musicals he starred in two films outside the musical genre: Inherit the Wind (1960) and What a Way to Go! (1964). In 1967, he appeared in French director Jacques Demy's musical comedy The Young Girls of Rochefort opposite Catherine Deneuve. Kelly solo directed the comedy A Guide for the Married Man (1967) starring Walter Matthau, and later the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969) starring Barbra Streisand, recognized with an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Kelly co-hosted and appeared in Ziegfeld Follies (1946), That's Entertainment! (1974), That's Entertainment, Part II (1976), That's Dancing! (1985), and That's Entertainment, Part III (1994). His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences. Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements; the same year, An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors (1982) and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute. In 1999, the American Film Institute also ranked him as the 15th greatest male screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Kelly, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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