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Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street. Gene Kelly Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra, and Gene Kelly in sailor uniforms sit together on a couch, with Kelly holding a telephone, in a scene from the musical film Anchors Aweigh. Oscar Levant sits at a piano while Gene Kelly dances beside him in a room with an open window, in a scene from An American in Paris (1951). Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron rehearse a dance pose in a studio, with Caron en pointe and extended, and Kelly supporting her, during filming of An American in Paris. Singin' in the Rain Barbra Streisand, in a purple Victorian dress and hat, dances energetically with Michael Crawford in an ornate room in the film Hello, Dolly! directed by Gene Kelly. lobby card for Singin' in the Rain Inherit the Wind
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Empty movie theater and blank screen (theatre, motion pictures, cinema).
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USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood
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Gene Kelly: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Clive Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly: A Biography (1974, reissued 1984); Alvin Yudkoff, Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams (1999).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer. Nov 08, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 19, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 29, 2026
Add new Web site: CBS News - Gotta Dance: Pittsburgh Native Gene Kelly Honored On Centennial. Sep 27, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Gene Kelly's legacy lives on. May 16, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 18, 2025
Add new Web site: New York Film Academy - The Marriage of Dance And Film: The Legacy of Gene Kelly. Mar 17, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Great Lives - Greg Jenner on Gene Kelly. Dec 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Television Academy Foundation - The Interviews - Gene Kelly. Jul 31, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Biography of Gene Kelly. Aug 09, 2023
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of Gene Kelly. Jun 30, 2023
Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Gene Kelly. Jan 06, 2023
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer. Nov 11, 2022
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer. Nov 11, 2022
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Gene Kelly. Jul 25, 2022
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Gene Kelly. Jul 16, 2021
Corrected display issue. Mar 02, 2021
Added cross-references. Dec 11, 2019
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Gene Kelly. May 16, 2019
Added photographs. Oct 30, 2014
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Gene Kelly. Sep 01, 2013
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Gene Kelly. Sep 01, 2013
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Gene Kelly in It's Always Fair Weather on DVD. Aug 23, 2012
Add new Web site: The Kennedy Center - Gene Kelly. Aug 17, 2012
Article revised. Jan 22, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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