Gene Kelly
Acting
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.
True Blue
(Archive Footage)
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee (archive footage)
Sid & Judy
Self (archive footage)
La La La
Various Roles (archive footage)
Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra: Around the World
Self - Guest
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
(archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Self (archive)
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
Joe D. Ross (archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Again
Don Lockwood (archive footage)
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
Self (archive footage)
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
Self (archive footage)
Easter Parade: On the Avenue
Self (Archive Footage)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Don Lockwood
Judy Garland: By Myself
Self - Actor (archive sound)
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour
Self (archive footage)
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Self / Narrator (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
That's Entertainment! III
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
The Young Girls Turn 25
Self (archive footage)
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
Self
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Self
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Self
The Movie Palaces
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Self (archive footage)
That's Dancing!
Self - Host
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Self - Narrator (voice)
Reporters
Self
Xanadu
Danny McGuire
Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights
Self
Lucy Moves to NBC
Self
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
Self
The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait
Self
Mickey's 50
Self
Cinderella at the Palace
Host
Ersatz
Don Lockwood (voice) (archive sound)
Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
Self - Host
Viva Knievel!
Will Atkins
An Evening with Gene Kelly
Self
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
The Lion Roars Again
Self
The Sandy Duncan Special
Self
That's Entertainment!
Self - Host / Narrator
Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back
Self - Guest Performer
40 Carats
Billy Boylan
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Andy Miller
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jeremy Keen, the Peddler
Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
Self
The Julie Andrews Show
Self
What a Way to Go!
Pinky Benson
Hollywood: The Golden Years
Self - Host
Let's Make Love
Gene Kelly (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
E.K. Hornbeck
Dancing, a Man's Game - Gene Kelly
Self
Marjorie Morningstar
Noel Airman
Les Girls
Barry Nichols
The Happy Road
Michael J. Andrews
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Tom T. Triplett
Invitation to the Dance
Host / Pierrot / The Marine / Sinbad
It's Always Fair Weather
Ted Riley
Deep in My Heart
Performer in Dancing Around
Brigadoon
Tommy Albright
Seagulls Over Sorrento
Lieutenant Bradville
The Devil Makes Three
Jeff Eliot
Singin' in the Rain
Don Lockwood
Love Is Better Than Ever
Gene Kelly (uncredited)
It's a Big Country
Icarus Xenophon
An American in Paris
Jerry Mulligan
Summer Stock
Joe D. Ross
The Costume Designer
Self (archive footage)
Black Hand
Giovanni E. 'Johnny' Columbo
On the Town
Gabey
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Eddie O'Brien
Words and Music
Gene Kelly
The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan
The Pirate
Serafin
Living in a Big Way
Leo Gogarty
The Story of Submarine Warfare in the Pacific
Narrator (voice)
Ziegfeld Follies
Gentleman (segment "The Babbit and the Bromide")
Anchors Aweigh
Joseph Brady
Combat Fatigue Irritability
Seaman Bob Lucas
Christmas Holiday
Robert Manette
Cover Girl
Danny McGuire
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
The Cross of Lorraine
Victor
Thousands Cheer
Private Eddie Marsh
Du Barry Was a Lady
Alec Howe / Black Arrow
Pilot #5
Vito S. Alessandro
For Me and My Gal
Harry Palmer