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Eugene Curran Kelly was born on August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh. As a little girl, she also tried American football, baseball and ice hockey, but she didn’t show a specific talent, so the dance floor remained where she could meet girls as well. He studied economics at university, took classes as a construction assistant, bartender, and gave dance lessons. He graduated during the Great Depression, but never got a job, and eventually lived out of the trenches. It was around this time that dancing became a profession for him, as he developed his individual style in their basement.
He moved to New York and became a dance teacher on Broadway. He also got smaller roles since 1938, then in 1941 he had huge success in the lead role for our friend, Joy. He started his film career the following year, signing a contract with popular producer David O. Selznick. He made his screen debut as a partner with Judy Garland in the musical For Me and My Beloved, then stayed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio for fifteen years, where he filmed 27 movies.
Although he was portrayed primarily by posterity as an actor and music dancer, he starred in a frustrated crime thriller (The Christmas Confession) in 1944, and a decade and a half later he provided an unforgettable prose role as a satirical journalist for Aki Slice. Meanwhile, he played D’Artagnan in the reworking of Dumas’ novel The Three Body Guards, and also stood in the acrobatic scenes of the adventure film.
The feat came with the musical Beauty of the Beauties in 1944, and the following year, Anchor was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Male! In the musical titled. As a choreographer, she is given freedom in the dance scenes as a choreographer, she dances with the mouse Jerry in a cartoon insert, and sings a duet with Frank Sinatra. His light manners and masculine dance style opened him up as the most popular movie star of the 1940’s and 1950’s, and the idol of a generation. In 1951, he was the hero of the musical A Paris in America, which revolutionized the genre. In George Gershwin’s music film, speech is ignored to the extreme. The dance scenes are not input but rather integral parts of the plot, culminating in a ballet dancing over a quarter of an hour performed by Kelly. The film, directed by Vincent Minnelli, won six Oscars, including one for Best Picture, and Kelly won an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.
A year later, Song in the Rain was released, which is one of, if not the most successful musical films of all time, starring in co-directing as well as the lead role. For his film Invitation to Dance, he was awarded the Golden Bear in the Berlinale in 1956.
From the mid-1950s, it started to become a part of the musical film genre. Viewers turned to television, and the Kelly films brought in less and less revenue, and MGM eventually terminated their contract. He also continued to work in Europe, where he appeared in several television and independent productions. He also tried his hand as a director, becoming the most successful in the field with three Oscars Hello Dolly (1969) starring Barbra Streisand. In 1970, he instructed Henry Fonda and James Stewart from behind the camera at Cheyenne Social Club. He was the narrator for the TV series This Entertainment, and in one of the episodes he danced again with Fred Astaire, the duo in many arousing nostalgia for the musical film’s climax. In her most recent musical work, Xanadu (1980), she played young partner Olivia Newton-John. She didn’t say goodbye to the dance later, and although she no longer performed, in 1993, Madonna gave advice about dance scenes on her tour.
During his five-decade career, he starred in more than fifty films. In her sporty and athletic dance style, she performed her spontaneous movements with elements of classical ballet. He brought something new to American musicals, showcasing modern, light and sparkling dance songs. Unlike the other dancing star of the time, Fred Astaire, he did not dance in the dance floor, in a tailcoat, but as a “pavement demon”, in a cubic sleeve.
His art has won many awards: he received the French Medal of Honor, the Honorary César Award, the National Medal of American Art, the American Art Prize, the American Film Institute, the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award, the Television Emmy Award, the Golden Globe Awards, the Cecil B.Dimmel Prize, Her star adorns the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1999, he was chosen to be the fifteenth oldest male movie star of all time by the American Film Institute, and nearly two decades after his death, in 2014, he was inducted into the Tap Dance Hall of Fame.
On the eve of the 1994 American Football World Cup Final, the three Tenors – Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti – sang Song in the Rain in his honor in Los Angeles. Gene Kelly died on February 2, 1996 at his home in Beverly Hills after several strokes.
