Gene kelly was gay

BITCH!

Astair was a truly elegant and musical dancer...Kelly was a great dancer but it was very athletic as opposed to artistic...and by all accounts an asshole of the first degree...but his dancing was wonderful to watch...albeit very formulaic.

Well, R3, your take on Kelly is anachronistic - you make it clear you're speaking in and for the present, but during his career, Kelly (who I never liked) was very popular exactly because of the persona you don't like.

Part of the issue was his overriding need to show a dance man as "straight" - which was his issue, not anyone else's.

But he also choreographed--Best Foot Forward, and, at Westport, a revival of Green Grow the Lilacs (which gave Theresa Helburn the idea for a Rodgers and Hart musical version, and when Hart said no, Rodgers turned to Hammerstein, and that become Oklahoma!).

I'm guessing Best Foot Forward, because there were so many attractive young women in it.

I don't think he needed the money. He exudes elegance.

I'd never pick one over the other. Though I wonder if maybe Ann Miller wouldn't have been cast as she was too tall to duet with Gene. What kept Kelly in Hollywood were "the kindred creative spirits" he found behind the scenes at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

I think he was 60ish when he died, and had been teaching somewhere. Kelly should have known better but must have been very needy.

r78: I think Cyd was originally cast and Ann replaced her. That's the one. Astaire was a bit of a bigot from what I've been told

Gene without hair can be seen with a Googling of "Gene Kelly toupee."

Actually r157, Fred Astaire said this scene with the Nicholas Brothers was the best dance number ever filmed:

Gene was straight.

jpgsize=sizedefault=framelessalt=suppressplaceholder=yesKelly in 1943. The low center of gravity, legs akimbo, arms behind the back, smug grin, chin tilted up and hat tilted back... A sad ending to such a great career.

He let gays suck him off, right?

[Quote]He let gays suck him off, right?

Well, he certainly let me suck him off.

[quote] she retired to marry the son and brother of the Duke of Devonshire

Eh?

[quote] So sad that such a legendary, talented dancer from Hollywood's Golden Age lowered himself to be part of that incredbily shitty movie Xanadu.

He claimed it was because of the proximity of the studio to his house.

Re:23

Ask Stanley Donen....

One of the hallmarks of a great dancer, for me, is the ability and grace to make it look effortless, and Kelly always seemed to be trying a liiiiittle too hard.

But it was Fred who taught film how to direct the dance, and Fred who gave it class on film. was junk, but he wanted a hit in his already badly faded resume, so he took Dolly! Drop dead sexy as fuck. These are the ones we know of: Pennsylvania State University,University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Who are similar persons to Gene Kelly?

He was very driven, a perfectionist. Lots of "Wizard of Oz" edits are all lost, a lot of unused material from "The Pirate", and I have never seen the original "Paging Mr. Greenbacks" finale from "Presenting Lily Mars", which was replaced by an amazing "Broadway Rhythm" production number where Judy dances with future director Chuck Walters.

R145 I was at a reading where the wife's boyfriend talked about that.

Wow that clip of the Nicholas Brothers was unbelievable!!

But all the anecdotes relate to that hideously vulgar Walter Matthau or Kelly's threatening Ernest Lehman when he says something or other to one of the actors.

No, r250, it was a tour of Take Me Along that Kelly did in 1974.