Gene Kelly - biography

“I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.”

“I never wanted to be a dancer.  It’s true!  I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburg Pirates.”

“When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.”

“Very professional - but infuriating.  [On Barbra Streisand]”

“I’d studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded.  I wasn’t worried about getting a job on Broadway.  In fact, I got one the first week.”

“My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.”

Gene Kelly has appeared in the following films:
For Me and My Gal (1942)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Pilot #5 (1943)
Thousands Cheer (1943)
The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
Cover Girl (1944)
Christmas Holiday (1944)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Living in a Big Way (1947)
The Pirate (1948)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Words and Music (1948)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
On the Town (1949)
Black Hand (1950)
Summer Stock (1950)
An American in Paris (1951)
It’s a Big Country (1951)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
The Devil Makes Three (1952)
Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954)
Brigadoon (1954)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)
The Magic Lamp (1956)
Invitation to the Dance (1956)
The Happy Road (1957)
Les Girls (1957)
Something for the Girls (1958)
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
40 Carats (1973)
Viva Knievel! (1977)
Xanadu (1980)
Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1993)


Gene Kelly directed the following films:
Hello, Dolly! (1969)


Gene Kelly contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Hello, Dolly! (1969)