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
dancing chance journalist
In fact, I wasn't going to dance in Xanadu, but several journalists told me that Olivia Newton-John kept saying how sad she was that she wouldn't get the chance to dance with me. So I finally said, "All right, throw in a number." But I'm through with dancing.
dancing
At the time the quickest way to establish yourself as an American was to throw a little bit of tap into your dance - even when it wasn't called for. But what also helped me was the fact that I was dancing in roles that I had played.
mgm
MGM didn't know what they had with Cyd, did they?
couple athlete everyday
Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.
night ridiculous hell
I had been asked to open a nightclub in Atlantic City. They offered me a ridiculous amount of money. They literally overpaid me. So I did one show a night. Then they asked me back by popular demand. So I went back. Then I said, "To hell with this." I was only doing it for the money, and I was doing easy routines. It's just too much work to get up every day and practice.
dancer trying fit
It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.
dream joy dance-love
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.
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.
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.
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.