Gene Kelly

🎂 Data nașterii: 1912-08-23 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

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.

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Gene Kelly

Filme în care a jucat

Cântând în ploaie

Procesul maimuțelor

Un american la Paris

Cover Girl

On the Town

What a Way to Go!

Christmas Holiday

For Me and My Gal

Marjorie Morningstar

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

The Pirate

Black Hand

The Three Musketeers

40 Carats

That's Dancing!

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Summer Stock

Ziegfeld Follies

Fetele

Du Barry Was a Lady

Thousands Cheer

Xanadu

The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait

Invitation to the Dance

Ridicați ancora!

It's Always Fair Weather

Brigadoon

Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera

Showbiz Goes to War

Jack and the Beanstalk

It's a Big Country

That's Entertainment, Part II

Viva Knievel!

The Cross of Lorraine

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

Pilot #5

The Devil Makes Three

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Living in a Big Way

The Happy Road

Seagulls Over Sorrento

Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans

Ersatz

Primii 100 de ani: O sărbătorire a filmelor americane

Words and Music

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

Easter Parade: On the Avenue

Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues

Hollywood: The Golden Years

That's Entertainment!

Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back

Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered

Deep in My Heart

Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas

A Bing Crosby Christmas

Reporters

An Evening with Gene Kelly

Dancing, a Man's Game - Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

That's Entertainment! III

Judy Garland: By Myself

Hollywood Musicals of the 40's

Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights

The Movie Palaces

Hai să facem dragoste

Combat Fatigue Irritability

Lucy Moves to NBC

James Bond: The First 21 Years

Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash

Twenty Years After

The Sandy Duncan Special

The Julie Andrews Show

Happy Again

The Costume Designer