Gene Kelly

On stage 4 productions, 2 years

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Also credited on3 works

Best Foot Forward
Flower Drum Song
On the Town

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In the literature8 passages

• 89 Easter Parade , with a score by Irving Berlin, starred Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Kathryn Grayson were not in the film.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 155 Take Me Out to the Ball Game was a 1949 MGM musical starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Esther Williams.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Pal Joey . Gene Kelly in right foreground (1940). Photograph: Vandamm Studio. Museum of the City of New York. Theater Collection.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Placing Frank Sinatra in the title role removed the dancing component associated with the role first played by Gene Kelly and in the revival by Harold Lang. The non-singing and for the most part non-dancing Kim Novak played Linda English. Novak, then at the peak of her popularity—one year before she starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo —…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Joey (Gene Kelly), a handsome, small-time dancer, begins his courtship of innocent Linda English (Leila Ernst) by proclaiming about [“about” in original Bordman summary quoted here] her virtues, “I Could Write a Book.” Joey himself is notably short on virtues, so when Vera Simpson (Vivienne Segal), a rich, callous, past-her-prime matron,…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• The musical was filmed by MGM in 1954; Vincente Minnelli directed, and the cast included Gene Kelly (Tommy), Cyd Charisse (Fiona), and Van Johnson (Jeff).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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