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
aristocracy proletariat
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
grants brando ifs
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
dance new-york good-man
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
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.
girl kids college
She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.
relax one-day impossible
I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.
your-side bread sides
I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.