Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kellywas an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likeable characters that he played on screen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 August 1912
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
song people ballet
When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.
running dream song
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.
dream joy dance-love
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.
moving men jeans
I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.
aristocracy proletariat
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
motion-pictures wanted mediums
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
pirate dancer pittsburgh
I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
nice very-nice happened
I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.
drama ideas awards
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.
strong white hollywood
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.
dance men roger
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
rain faces smile-on-my-face
Come on with the rain / I’ve a smile on my face.
dance mother jobs
My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.
kids tape gone
Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.