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Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret. It can also be spelled as Margery or Marjory.

Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century." It is also an Old French, Middle English form of Margaret, which means pearl.

Notable Marjories include

• Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), the mother of Robert the Bruce
• Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), an English toy maker and businesswoman
• Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), a Washington, D.C. based artist and the niece of artists Gifford and Reynolds Beal
• Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor
• Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), a leading BBC radio broadcaster for over thirty years
• Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), a Scottish historian and paleographer
• Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), an English artist who specialised in both industrial and rural landscapes
• Marjorie Barnard AO (1897–1987), an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian and librarian
• Marjorie Barretto (born 1974), an actress and politician from the Philippines
• Marjorie Bates R.A. (1882–1962), a Derbyshire painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and in Paris
• Marjorie Bean (died 2001), the first Bermudian woman to be appointed to Bermuda's former Legislative Council
• Marjorie Bennett (1896–1982), an Australian television and film actress who began her career during the silent film era
• Marjorie Best (1903–1997), an American Hollywood costume designer best known for her period designs
• Marjorie Blamey OBE (born 1919), an English painter and illustrator, particularly noted for her botanical illustrations
• Marjorie Blankstein, CM (née Rady), Canadian fundraiser, community activist and volunteer
• Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto
• Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret V[ere] Long née Campbell), (1885–1952), a British author
• Marjorie Bransfield, an English-speaking former actress, who was married to actor James Belushi
• Marjorie Brown, the owner of the Boston Celtics following the death of her husband Walter A. Brown
• Marjorie Browne (1910–1990), a British actor
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), a notable mathematics educator, the second African-American woman to receive a doctoral degree in the U.S.
• Marjorie Bruce or Marjorie de Brus (1296–1316), the eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by his first wife
• Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), an artist, occultist, actress, and wife of rocket pioneer and occultist Jack Parsons
• Marjorie Harris Carr (1915–1998), an American conservationist
• Marjorie Constance Caserio (born 1929), an American chemist
• Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), an American landscape architect
• Marjorie Cevallos (born 1986), Miss World Ecuador 2008, was chosen on March 13, 2008
• Marjorie Chibnall, an English historian, medievalist and Latin translator
• Marjorie Clapprood (born 1949), a former Massachusetts politician and talk show host
• Marjorie Clark (born 1909), a South African former track and field athlete
• Marjorie Clarke, Ph.D., is an environmental scientist
• Marjorie Cohn, a Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California
• Marjorie Kowalski Cole (1953–2009), a writer of poetry, short stories and novels
• Marjorie Cottle, a leading motorcycle sports rider
• Marjorie Cotton (1913–2003), the first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia
• Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), the South African museum official who in 1938 publicised the existence of the coelacanth
• Marjorie Cox Crawford, a female tennis player from Australia
• Marjorie Critten, Miss Missouri in 1958
• Marjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board of the Susan B. Anthony List
• Marjorie Daw (actress) (1902–1979), an American film actress of the silent era
• Marjorie de Sousa (born 1980), a Venezuelan model and actress
• Marjorie Dean, the protagonist and eponymous character of series of books for girls, written by Josephine Chase
• Marjorie Deanne (1917–1994), an American film actress
• Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (born 1922), Professor Emeritus in English at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
• Marjorie Dodd, an important amateur tennis player in the early part of the 20th Century
• Marjorie Dunn, a British horn player who performed with the Michael Nyman Band from 1991–1994
• Marjorie Estiano (born 1982), a Brazilian popular actress and singer who rose to prominence in 2004
• Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), an award-winning Filipino poet
• Marjorie Eyre (1897–1987), an English opera singer
• Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), a British stage and film actress
• Marjorie Flack (1897–1958), an award-winning artist and writer of children's picture books
• Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), a child writer and poet, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
• Marjorie Franklin, a conceptual artist and a Professor of Conceptual Art at University of Minnesota in the U.S.A.
• Marjorie Garber (born 1944), a professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of books
• Marjorie Gateson (1891–1977), a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s
• Marjorie Gestring (1922–1992), a competitive springboard diver from the United States and the youngest ever Olympic gold medallist
• Marjorie Gordon (1893–1983), an English actress and singer
• Marjorie Graves (1884–1961), a British civil servant, Conservative politician and writer
• Marjorie Grene (1910–2009), an American philosopher
• Marjorie Griffin, a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1946
• Marjorie Gross (1956–1996), a television writer and producer
• Marjorie Gubelmann (born 1969), owner and CEO of Vie Luxe International
• Marjorie Guthrie (1917–1983), for a time the wife of folk musician Woody Guthrie
• Marjorie Halpin (1937–2000), a U.S.-Canadian anthropologist
• Marjorie Harris BA (born 1937), a Canadian non-fiction writer
• Marjorie Hall Harrison (born 1915), British astronomer
• Marjorie Heins, an activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project
• Marjorie Henzell, (born 1948), Australian politician
• Marjorie Hill (died 1909), one of the original nine of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's twenty founders at Howard University
• Marjorie Holt (born 1920), a Republican, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented Maryland's 4th congressional district
• Marjorie Hughes, a singer in the Frankie Carle Orchrestra
• Marjorie Hume (1900–1976), an English film actress
• Marjorie Husted (1892–1986), a home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty Crocker
• Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, AC, CVO, MBE (born 1931), a former Governor of South Australia and a former Australian athlete
• Marjorie Johnson, the "Blue Ribbon Baker", is a popular baker from Robbinsdale, Minnesota
• Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), African American inventor and businesswoman
• Marjorie Kane (1909–1992), an American film actress
• Marjorie Keller (1950–1994), an experimental filmmaker, author, activist, film scholar, wife of P. Adams Sitney
• Marjorie B. Kellogg, American writer, author of Dragon Quartet
• Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), an American author born in Santa Barbara, California
• Marjorie Lane, an American singer and Broadway performer of the 1920s and 1930s
• Marjorie Lawrence CBE (1907–1979), an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas
• Marjorie Lewty (1906–2002), a popular writer of over 45 romance novels from 1958 to 1999
• Marjorie Linton (born 1917), a Canadian backstroke and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics
• Marjorie Liu, a New York Times best-selling author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels and comic books
• Marjorie Lord (born 1918), an American television and film actress
• Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (born 1928), an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet
• Marjorie Main (1890–1975), an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle
• Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (born 1942), an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a women's right activist
• Marjorie Matthews (1916–1986), an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• Marjorie Maxse (1891–1975), a political organiser and the first female chief organization officer of the Conservative Party
• Yvonne Marjorie Hal McDonald (born 1951), a community activist in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida, United States
• Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin (1903–1997), an important American puppeteer and authority on the puppet theater
• Marjorie Merryman (born 1951), an American composer, author, and music educator
• Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959), an abstract, geometric, hard-edge acrylic painter working in Lincoln, Nebraska
• Marjorie Monaghan, an American actress born in California but raised in Ohio
• Marjorie Montgomery (born 1912), a child dancer and actress
• Marjorie Morgan (1915–2007), a Canadian writer and author
• Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894–1981), daughter of Charles Butler Nicolson, editor-in-chief of the Detroit Free Press during World War I
• Marjorie Noël (1945–2000), a French pop singer, represented Monaco in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest
• Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937), nicknamed "Bubbles", was an American socialite
• Marjorie Okell (1908–2009), an international track and field athlete from Great Britain
• Marjorie Ozanne (1897–1973), wrote stories in Guernesiais, published in the Guernsey Evening Press between 1949 and 1965
• Marjorie Parker, DBE (died 1991), an Australian civic and political activist, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977
• Marjorie Perloff (born 1931), an Austrian-born U.S. poetry critic
• Marjorie Pickthall (1883–1922), a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven
• Marjorie Pizer (born 1920), an Australian poet
• Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc.
• Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock DBE, JP (died 1989), a British peeress
• Marjorie Priceman (born 1958), the author and/or illustrator of over 30 picture books for children
• Marjorie Proops (1911–1996), an agony aunt in the United Kingdom, writing the column Dear Marje for the Daily Mirror newspaper
• Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), a British historian, illustrator and museum curator
• Marjorie Rambeau (1889–1970), an American film and stage actress
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings
• Robert and Marjorie Rawlins, American philanthropists and patrons of the arts, particularly music
• Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), a federal judge and a former First Lady of Pennsylvania
• Marjorie Reynolds (1917–1997), an American film actress
• Marjorie Rhodes (1897–1979), a British actress
• Marjorie Rice (born 1923), an American homemaker most famous for her discoveries in geometry
• Marjorie Newell Robb (1889–1992), one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
• Marjorie Scardino, DBE, FRSA (born 1947), the CEO of Pearson PLC.
• Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957), an American museum writer and educator
• Marjorie W. Sharmat (born 1928), an American children's writer
• Marjorie Shostak (1945–1996), an American anthropologist
• Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (1880–1970), the daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon
• Marjorie Parker Smith (1917–2009), an American champion ice skater in dance and figure skating competitions
• Marjorie Spock (1904–2008), an environmentalist, author and poet who influenced Rachel Carson's writing of Silent Spring
• Marjorie Strider (born 1934), an American painter, sculptor and performance artist
• Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933), an author and United Methodist professor emerita of theology at Claremont School of Theology
• Marjorie Sweeting, a geomorphologist specialising in karst phenomena
• Marjorie Lynette Sigley (1928–1997), a British artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer
• Marjorie Tallchief (born 1927), a ballerina of the Osage Nation
• Marjorie Thomas (1923–2008), an English opera and oratorio singer for almost three decades
• Marjorie Thompson, vice-chair and chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament between 1983 and 1993
• Marjorie Tipping MBE (1917–2009), an Australian historian and patron of community services
• Marjorie Torrey (born 1899), an illustrator and winner of two Caldecott Honor books in 1946 and 1947
• Marjorie Tuite (1922–1986), a New York City-born and reared Dominican nun
• Marjorie R. Turnbull (born 1940), served as a Representative in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Florida
• Marjorie van Vliet (1923–1990), a teacher from Warwick, Rhode Island in the United States
• Marjorie Vincent, a former journalist and beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991
• Marjorie Wallace (born 1954), a former United States model later turned television presenter
• Marjorie Wallace (SANE) CBE (Countess Skarbek) (born 1945), a British writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist, chief executive of SANE
• Marjorie Weaver (1913–1994), an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s
• Marjorie Welish (born 1944), an American poet, artist, and art critic
• Marjorie Westbury (1905–1989), an English radio actress and singer
• Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, an American historian and university professor at Randolph College
• Marjorie Whitaker (1895–1976), (pseudonym Malachi Whitaker), an English writer noted for her short stories and an autobiography
• Marjorie White (1904–1935), a Canadian-born actress of stage and film
• Marjorie Williams (1958–2005), a writer, reporter, and columnist for Vanity Fair and The Washington Post
• Marjorie Williamson (1913–2002), a British academic, educator, physicist and university administrator
• Marjorie Willison, an author of books on gardening and a radio personality who answers gardeners' questions
• Marjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976), an American authoress of novels and short stories
• Marjorie Yang (born 1952), a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
• Marjorie Yates (born 1941), a British actress most famous for her role as Carol Fisher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless

Nicknames

Marge, Margie, Marj, Jorie, MJ, Mar and Maggie are common nicknames of Marjorie.

See also[link]

• Marjory
• 4064 Marjorie (2126 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1960
• USS Marjorie M. (SP-1080), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
• Marjorie Barrick Museum, a museum on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Marjorie Cook Education Center, an educational school based in San Diego, California
• Marjorie Daw (short story), a short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Marjorie Fair, an indie rock/shoegaze American band formed in New Jersey
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, a Florida State Park and historic site on the former homestead of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• Marjorie Morningstar (film), a 1958 melodrama film based on the 1955 novel of the same name
• Marjorie Morningstar (novel), a 1955 novel by Herman Wouk, about a woman who wants to become an actress
• Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award, presented annually by the U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations

Marjorie Estiano
Background information
Birth name	Marjorie Dias de Oliveira
Born	(1982-03-08) March 8, 1982 (age 30)
Origin	Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Genres	Rock, Pop
Occupations	Actress, singer
Years active	2003–Present (actress) 2004–Present (singer)
Labels	Som Livre (2004-2005) Universal Music (2005-)
Associated acts	Rede Globo Malhação Páginas da Vida Duas Caras Caminho das Índias
Website	Marjorie Estiano

Marjorie Estiano (born March 8, 1982) is a Brazilian popular actress and singer who rose to prominence in 2004 playing Natasha in the Brazilian teen series Malhação.

Biography[link]

Born in Curitiba, Paraná state as Marjorie Dias de Oliveira to Eurandir Lima de Oliveira and Marilene Dias, the second of three siblings, Marjorie Estiano studied Scenic Arts in Paraná. When she finished, she moved to São Paulo to improve her acting abilities. There she studied music for two years While studying, she made some TV commercials and played minor plays in theater. After this, she was approved in the TV Globo Actor's Workshop and moved to Rio de Janeiro. Then she signed to join the cast of Malhação and began acting in minor roles. She won the role of "Natasha" in 2004.

She began sharing the vocals of the band with singer, Gustavo (Guilherme Berenguer). Victor Pozas and Alexandre Castilho started recording demo tapes with Estiano and sending them to record labels. Universal Music was interested, and hired Estiano. After several months in studio, her self-titled debut album was released. The first single, "Você Sempre Será" (English: You Will Always Be), which was previously performed in Malhação, hit the top of Brazilian charts, and won the Faustão's The Best Of The Year award for Song Of The Year.

The second single, "Por Mais Que Eu Tente" (English: The More I Try), was her second top ten hit, and the third single "O Jogo" (English: The Game) peaked just outside the top ten, but still enjoyed success. Thanks to the enormous airplay of the song "Você Sempre Será", her album went platinum.

2011: Miniseries and Production of New CD[link]

First Miniseries

During the premiere of the play "Mind Deception", actor and producer Malvino Salvador late on Thursday (11th), Rio de Janeiro, Marjorie Fair took the opportunity to talk about the work of two that will air in January 2011, called "Amor em Quatro Atos" (Love in Four Acts). The series of four chapters, will be based on four songs by Chico Buarque: "Between rehearsals and recordings were 20 days of living together and he's great" said the actress who used to apply a wavy hair to play the part.

In the chapter she makes movies, plays a filmmaker Marjorie involved in filming the video for the song "Construction" and in the middle of the episode will complain about the noise of the work and know the neighbor's character Malvino, the role of Mason.

Third Studio Album

For 2011, Marjorie also has plans for the pre production of a new CD and said it is already researching a speech: "I wanted to come out next year, but if you scroll novel or film, complicating" the actress said citing speculation surrounding invitations to Globo's novelas next year.

Acting career[link]

She plays Manuela Fonseca, which is one of the main characters, in the 2011 Rede Globo telenovela A Vida da Gente.^[1]

Filmography[link]

Soap operas[link]

Discography[link]

• 2005:Marjorie Estiano
• 2007:Flores, Amores e Blábláblá
• 2011:TBA (in Production)

Live DVD[link]

• 2005: Marjorie Estiano e Banda Ao Vivo

Videography[link]

Official Music Videos[link]

Tours[link]

• 2005-2006: Marjorie Estiano e Banda (Marjorie Estiano and Band)
• 2007-2008: Turnê Blablablá (Blablabla Tour)
• 2009-2010: Combinação Sobre Todas as Coisas (Combination Above All Things)
• 2011: TBA

Awards[link]

Actress[link]

• 1999: Best Actress at the Festival Theatre Lala Schneider, for Clarisse
• 2005: Best Actress Award at the IV Brazilian Youth Award, for Malhação (2004)
• 2011: Best Supporting Actress Quem Award, for A Vida da Gente

Singer[link]

2005

• Singer Revelation, Trophy Leão Lobo
• DVD gold the 25 thousand copies sold of the DVD Marjorie Estiano e Banda (Ao Vivo)
• Song of the year (Você sempre será), Best of the Year - Domingão do Faustão
• Singer revelation of the year - Meus Prêmios Nick 2005
• Platinum by 150 thousand copies sold of the CD Marjorie Estiano

2006

• Singer revelation of the year - Prêmio Multishow de Música Brasileira (Multishow Brazilian Music Award)^[2][3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Marjorie Estiano official website (Portuguese)
• Marjorie Estiano on Universal Music website (Portuguese)
• List of Estiano's albums/DVDs
• Marjorie Estiano at the Internet Movie Database
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• http://www.parana-online.com.br/colunistas/207/33764/?postagem=MOCINHA+DA+CIDADE
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Jari Sillanpää
Background information
Born	(1965-08-16) 16 August 1965 (age 46) Ludvika, Sweden
Genres	Schlager
Instruments	Singing
Years active	1995–present
Labels	MTV-Musiikki, Bridgehead, Suomen Mediamusiikki, Veijari-tuotanto
Website	http://www.jarisillanpaa.com/

Jari Sillanpää (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjɑri ˈsilːɑmpæː]; born 16 August 1965, Ludvika, Sweden) a Finnish singer. With over 820,000 records sold, he is the fifth-best-selling music artist and second-best-selling solo artist in Finland.^[1]

He became famous after winning the Seinäjoki Tangomarkkinat tango contest in 1995, receiving full points from all judges.^{[citation needed]}

Sillanpää's 1995 debut album Jari Sillanpää is the best-selling music recording of all time in Finland, with over 270,000 copies sold.^[2][3] He has since represented Finland in Romania's Golden Stag festival in 1997, where his song, "Remember Me", earned him the special award for the best performance of a Romanian song.

In 1998, Sillanpää was awarded the Male Soloist of the Year Emma award.

Sillanpää represented Finland in Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and his song ”Takes 2 To Tango” (which he wrote the lyrics for) received 51 points in the semi-final, taking the 14th place and not qualifying for the final. Sillanpää participated in the Finnish National Final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Kirkas kipinä" (Bright spark), making it to the final show, but finishing out of the final three. Since 2006 Sillanpää has publicly identified himself as homosexual.^[4]

Discography[link]

• Jari Sillanpää (1996)
• Hyvää joulua (Merry Christmas) (1996) – Christmas album
• Auringonnousu (Sunrise) (1997)
• Varastetut helmet (Stolen Evergreens) (1998)
• Onnenetsijä (Fortune Seeker) (1999)
• Kuninkaan kyyneleet (Tears of the King) (2000) – Collection
• Maa on niin kaunis (So Beautiful Is Earth) (2000) – Christmas album
• Hän kertoo sen sävelin (He's Telling It By Melodies) (2001)
• Määränpää tuntematon (Unknown Destination) (2003)
• Parhaat (The best ones) (2005) – Collection
• Albumi (Album) (2008)
• Al Ritmo Latino (2008)
• Kuin elokuvissa (Like in Movies) (2009)
• Millainen laulu jää (2011)

See also[link]

• List of best-selling music artists in Finland

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official webpage

For people named Jean Kelly, see Jean Kelly (disambiguation).

Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly in 1943
Born	Eugene Curran Kelly (1912-08-23)August 23, 1912 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died	February 2, 1996(1996-02-02) (aged 83) Beverly Hills, California
Occupation	Actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, choreographer
Years active	1938–1994
Spouse	Betsy Blair (m.1941-1957; divorced) Jeanne Coyne (m.1960-1973; her death) Patricia Ward (m.1990-1996; his death)

Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 - February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.

Although he is known today for his performances in Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris, he was a dominant force in Hollywood musical films from the mid 1940s until this art form fell out of fashion in the late 1950s. His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical film, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences.^[1]

Kelly was the recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors, and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute; in 1999, the American Film Institute also numbered him 15th in their Greatest Male Stars of All Time list.

Early life[link]

Kelly's senior picture from the 1933 yearbook of the University of Pittsburgh

Kelly was born in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He was the third son of Harriet Catherine (née Curran) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman.^[2] His father was born in Peterborough, Canada, to a family of Irish descent. His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry in northern Ireland and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry.^[3] At the age of eight, Kelly was enrolled by his mother in dance classes, along with his elder brother James. They both rebelled, and, according to Kelly: "We didn't like it much and were continually involved in fistfights with the neighborhood boys who called us sissies...I didn't dance again until I was fifteen." He thought it would be a good way to get girls.^[4] Kelly returned to dance on his own initiative and by then was an accomplished sportsman and well able to take care of himself. He attended St. Raphael Elementary School ^[5] in the Morningside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from Peabody High School in 1929 at the age of sixteen. He enrolled in Pennsylvania State College to study journalism but the economic crash obliged him to seek employment to help with the family's finances. At this time, he worked up dance routines with his younger brother Fred in order to earn prize money in local talent contests, and they also performed in local nightclubs.^[4]

In 1931, Kelly enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh to study economics where he joined the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity.^[6] While at Pitt, Kelly became involved in the university's Cap and Gown Club, which staged original, comedic musical productions.^[7] Earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with his graduation from Pitt in 1933, he remained active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as its director from 1934 to 1938, while at the same time enrolling in the University of Pittsburgh Law School.^[8] Also during this period, Kelly's family started a dance studio on Munhall Road in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In 1932, the dance studio was renamed The Gene Kelly Studio of the Dance. A second location was opened in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1933. Kelly served as a teacher at the studio during both his undergraduate and law student years at Pitt. In 1931, he was approached by the Rodef Shalom synagogue in Pittsburgh to teach dance, and to stage the annual Kermess. This venture was successful enough that his services were retained for seven years until his departure for New York.^[9] Eventually, though, he decided to pursue his career as a dance teacher and full-time entertainer, so Kelly dropped out of law school after two months. He began to increasingly focus on performing and later claimed: "With time I became disenchanted with teaching because the ratio of girls to boys was more than ten to one, and once the girls reached sixteen the dropout rate was very high."^[4] In 1937, having successfully managed and developed the family's dance school business, he finally did move to New York City in search of work as a choreographer.^[4]

Stage career[link]

After a fruitless search, Kelly returned to Pittsburgh, to his first position as a choreographer with the Charles Gaynor musical revue Hold Your Hats at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in April, 1938. Kelly appeared in six of the sketches, one of which, "La Cumparsita", became the basis of an extended Spanish number in Anchors Aweigh" eight years later.

His first Broadway assignment, in November 1938, was as a dancer in Cole Porter's Leave It to Me! as the American ambassador's secretary who supports Mary Martin while she sings "My Heart Belongs to Daddy". He had been hired by Robert Alton who had staged a show at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and been impressed by Kelly's teaching skills. When Alton moved on to choreograph One for the Money he hired Kelly to act, sing and dance in a total of eight routines. In 1939, he was selected to be part of a musical revue "One for the Money" produced by the actress Katharine Cornell, who was known for finding and hiring talented young actors.

Kelly's first career breakthrough was in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life, which opened on October 25, 1939, where for the first time on Broadway he danced to his own choreography. In the same year he received his first assignment as a Broadway choreographer, for Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. His future wife, Betsy Blair, was a member of the cast. They began dating and married on October 16, 1941.

In 1940, he was given the leading role in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, again choreographed by Robert Alton, and this role propelled him to stardom. During its run he told reporters: "I don't believe in conformity to any school of dancing. I create what the drama and the music demand. While I am a hundred percent for ballet technique, I use only what I can adapt to my own use. I never let technique get in the way of mood or continuity."^[4] It was at this time also, that his phenomenal commitment to rehearsal and hard work was noticed by his colleagues. Van Johnson who also appeared in Pal Joey recalled: "I watched him rehearsing, and it seemed to me that there was no possible room for improvement. Yet he wasn't satisfied. It was midnight and we had been rehearsing since eight in the morning. I was making my way sleepily down the long flight of stairs when I heard staccato steps coming from the stage...I could see just a single lamp burning. Under it, a figure was dancing...Gene."^[4]

Offers from Hollywood began to arrive but Kelly was in no particular hurry to leave New York. Eventually, he signed with David O. Selznick, agreeing to go to Hollywood at the end of his commitment to Pal Joey, in October 1941. Prior to his contract, he also managed to fit in choreographing the stage production of Best Foot Forward.

Film career[link]

1941–1944: Becoming established in Hollywood[link]

Selznick sold half of Kelly's contract to MGM and loaned him out to MGM for his first motion picture: For Me and My Gal (1942) with Judy Garland. Kelly was "appalled at the sight of myself blown up twenty times. I had an awful feeling that I was a tremendous flop" but the picture did well and, in the face of much internal resistance, Arthur Freed of MGM picked up the other half of Kelly's contract.^[4] After appearing in the B-movie drama Pilot #5 he took the male lead in Cole Porter's Du Barry Was a Lady opposite Lucille Ball. His first opportunity to dance to his own choreography came in his next picture Thousands Cheer, where he performed a mock-love dance with a mop.

He achieved his breakthrough as a dancer on film when MGM loaned him out to Columbia to work with Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl (1944), where he created a memorable routine dancing to his own reflection. In his next film Anchors Aweigh (1945), MGM virtually gave him a free hand to devise a range of dance routines, including the celebrated and much imitated animated dances with Jerry Mouse, and his duets with co-star Frank Sinatra.^[10] Anchors Aweigh became one of the most successful films of 1945 and it garnered Kelly his first and only Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In Ziegfeld Follies (1946) – which was produced in 1944 but not released until 1946 – Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire – for whom he had the greatest admiration – in the famous "The Babbitt and the Bromide" challenge dance routine.

At the end of 1944, Kelly enlisted in the U.S. Naval Air Service and was commissioned as lieutenant junior grade. He was stationed in the Photographic Section, Washington D.C., where he was involved in writing and directing a range of documentaries, and this stimulated his interest in the production side of film-making.^[6][11]

1946–1952: MGM[link]

On his return to Hollywood in the spring of 1946, MGM had nothing lined up and used him in yet another B-movie: Living in a Big Way. The film was considered so weak that Kelly was asked to design and insert a series of dance routines, and his ability to carry off such assignments was noticed. This led to his next picture with Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, the film version of Cole Porter's The Pirate, in which Kelly plays the eponymous swashbuckler. Now regarded as a classic, the film was ahead of its time and was not well received. The Pirate gave full rein to Kelly's athleticism and is probably best remembered for Kelly's work with The Nicholas Brothers – the leading African-American dancers of their day – in a virtuoso dance routine.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame (1949)

Although MGM wanted Kelly to return to safer and more commercial vehicles, he ceaselessly fought for an opportunity to direct his own musical film. In the interim, he capitalised on his swashbuckling image as d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers. and also appeared with Vera-Ellen in the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet in Words and Music (1948). He was due to play the male lead opposite Garland in Easter Parade (1948), but broke his ankle playing volleyball. He withdrew from the film and encouraged Fred Astaire to come out of retirement to replace him.^[12] There followed Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), his second film with Sinatra, where Kelly paid tribute to his Irish heritage in The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day routine. It was this musical film which persuaded Arthur Freed to allow Kelly to make On the Town, where he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time, creating a breakthrough in the musical film genre which has been described as "the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood."^[4]

Stanley Donen, brought to Hollywood by Kelly to be his assistant choreographer, received co-director credit for On the Town. According to Kelly: "...when you are involved in doing choreography for film you must have expert assistants. I needed one to watch my performance, and one to work with the cameraman on the timing..without such people as Stanley, Carol Haney and Jeanne Coyne I could never have done these things. When we came to do On the Town, I knew it was time for Stanley to get screen credit because we weren't boss-assistant anymore but co-creators."^[4][13] Together, they opened up the musical form, taking the film musical out of the studio and into real locations, with Donen taking responsibility for the staging and Kelly handling the choreography. Kelly went much further than before in introducing modern ballet into his dance sequences, going so far in the "Day in New York" routine as to substitute four leading ballet specialists for Sinatra, Munshin, Garrett and Miller.^[6]

It was now Kelly's turn to ask the studio for a straight acting role and he took the lead role in the early mafia melodrama: The Black Hand (1949). This expose of organized crime is set in New York's "Little Italy" the late 19th century, and focuses on the Black Hand, a group which extorts money upon threat of death. In the real-life incidents upon which this film is based, it was the Mafia, not the Black Hand, who functioned as the villain. Even in 1950, however, Hollywood had to tread gingerly whenever dealing with big-time crime; it was easier (and safer) to go after a "dead" criminal organization than a "live" one.

There followed Summer Stock (1950) – Judy Garland's last musical film for MGM – in which Kelly performed the celebrated "You, You Wonderful You" solo routine with a newspaper and a squeaky floorboard. In his book "Easy the Hard Way", Joe Pasternak, head of one of the other musical units within MGM, singled out Kelly for his patience and willingness to spend as much time as necessary to enable the ailing Garland to complete her part.^[4]

There followed in quick succession two musicals which have secured Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film, An American in Paris (1951) and – probably the most popular and admired of all film musicals – Singin' in the Rain (1952). As co-director, lead star and choreographer, Kelly was the central driving force. Johnny Green, head of music at MGM at the time, described him as follows:

"Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're working with him. He's a hard taskmaster and he loves hard work. If you want to play on his team you'd better like hard work, too. He isn't cruel but he is tough, and if Gene believed in something he didn't care who he was talking to, whether it was Louis B. Mayer or the gatekeeper. He wasn't awed by anybody, and he had a good record of getting what he wanted".^[4]

An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and, in the same year, Kelly was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to film musicals and the art of choreography. The film also marked the debut of Leslie Caron, whom Kelly had spotted in Paris and brought to Hollywood. Its dream ballet sequence, lasting an unprecedented seventeen minutes, was the most expensive production number ever filmed up to that point and was described by Bosley Crowther as, "whoop-de-doo ... one of the finest ever put on the screen."^[6] Singin' in the Rain featured Kelly's celebrated and much imitated solo dance routine to the title song, along with the "Moses Supposes" routine with Donald O'Connor and the "Broadway Melody" finale with Cyd Charisse, and while it did not initially generate the same enthusiasm as An American in Paris, it subsequently overtook the earlier film to occupy its current pre-eminent place among critics and filmgoers alike.^[14]

1953–57: The Decline of the Hollywood Musical[link]

Kelly, at the very peak of his creative powers, now made what in retrospect is seen as a serious mistake.^[6] In December 1951 he signed a contract with MGM which sent him to Europe for nineteen months so that Kelly could use MGM funds frozen in Europe to make three pictures while personally benefiting from tax exemptions. Only one of these pictures was a musical, Invitation to the Dance, a pet project of Kelly's to bring modern ballet to mainstream film audiences. It was beset with delays and technical problems, and flopped when finally released in 1956. When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon (1954), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland. This year also saw him appear as guest star with his brother Fred in the celebrated "I Love to Go Swimmin' with Wimmen" routine in Deep in My Heart. MGM's refusal to loan him out for Guys and Dolls and Pal Joey put further strains on his relationship with the studio. He negotiated an exit to his contract which involved making three further pictures for MGM.

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather (1956) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to "I Like Myself", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope. A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls (1957), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg, fittingly ending, as he had begun, with a Cole Porter musical. The third picture he completed was a co-production between MGM and himself, the B-movie The Happy Road, set in his beloved France, his first foray in his new role as producer-director-actor.

1958–1996: Years of perseverance[link]

Leaving MGM in 1957, Kelly returned to stage work. When in 1958 he directed Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play Flower Drum Song.^[15] Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique,^[4] to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment. The result was Pas de Dieux, based on Greek mythology, combined with the music of George Gershwin's Concerto in F. It was a major success, and led to his being honoured with the Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur by the French Government.

Kelly as Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind

Kelly continued to make some film appearances, such as Hornbeck in the 1960 Hollywood production of Inherit the Wind. However, most of his efforts were now concentrated on film production and directing. In 1962, he directed Jackie Gleason in Gigot in Paris, but the film was drastically re-cut by Seven Arts Productions and flopped.^[6] Another French effort, Jacques Demy's homage to the MGM musical: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) in which Kelly appeared, was popular in France and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music and Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation) but performed poorly, elsewhere. He appeared as himself in George Cukor's Let's Make Love (1960).

His first foray into television was a documentary for NBC's Omnibus, Dancing is a Man's Game (1958) where he assembled a group of America's greatest sportsmen – including Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson and Bob Cousy – and re-interpreted their moves choreographically, as part of his lifelong quest to remove the effeminate stereotype of the art of dance, while articulating the philosophy behind his dance style.^[6] It gained an Emmy nomination for choreography and now stands as the key document explaining Kelly's approach to modern dance.

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way (1962–63), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.^[6] He also appeared in three major TV specials: New York, New York (1966), The Julie Andrews' Show (1965), and Jack and the Beanstalk (1967) a show he produced and directed which returned to a combination of cartoon animation with live dance, winning him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program.

In 1963, Kelly joined Universal Pictures for a two-year stint, which proved to be the most unproductive period of his career at that point. He joined 20th Century Fox in 1965, but had little to do – partly due to his decision to decline assignments away from Los Angeles for family reasons. His perseverance finally paid off, with the major box-office hit A Guide for the Married Man (1967) where he directed Walter Matthau. Then, a major opportunity arose when Fox – buoyed by the returns from The Sound of Music (1965) – commissioned Kelly to direct Hello, Dolly! (1969), again directing Matthau along with Barbra Streisand, but which unfortunately failed to recoup the enormous production expenses.

In 1970, he made another TV special: Gene Kelly and 50 Girls and was invited to bring the show to Las Vegas, Nevada, which he duly did for an eight-week stint – on condition he be paid more than any artist had hitherto been paid there.^[6] He directed veteran actors James Stewart and Henry Fonda in the comedy western The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) which performed very well at the box-office. In 1973, he would work again with Frank Sinatra as part of Sinatra's Emmy nominated TV special Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. Then, in 1974, he appeared as one of many special narrators in the surprise hit of the year That's Entertainment! and subsequently directed and co-starred with his friend Fred Astaire in the sequel That's Entertainment, Part II (1976). It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire – who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired – into performing a series of song and dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film. Kelly continued to make frequent TV appearances and, in 1980, appeared in an acting and dancing role opposite Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu (1980), an expensive theatrical flop which has since attained a cult following.^[6] In Kelly's opinion, "The concept was marvelous but it just didn't come off."^[4] In the same year, he was invited by Francis Ford Coppola to recruit a production staff for American Zoetrope's One from the Heart (1982). Although Coppola's ambition was for him to establish a production unit to rival the Freed Unit at MGM, the film's failure put an end to this idea.^[6] In 1985, Kelly served as executive producer and co-host of That's Dancing! – a celebration of the history of dance in the American musical. After his final on-screen appearance, introducing That's Entertainment! III, in 1994, his final film project was the animated movie Cats Don't Dance, released in 1997 and dedicated to him, on which Kelly acted as uncredited choreographic consultant.

Working methods and influence on filmed dance[link]

When he began his collaborative film work, he was influenced by Robert Alton and John Murray Anderson, striving to create moods and character insight with his dances. He choreographed his own movement, along with that of the ensemble, with the assistance of Jeanne Coyne, Stanley Donen, Carol Haney, and Alex Romero.^[1] He experimented with lighting, camera techniques and special effects in order to achieve true integration of dance with film, and was one of the first to use split screens, double images, live action with animation and is credited as the person who made the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences.^[1]

There was a clear progression in his development, from an early concentration on tap and musical comedy style to greater complexity using ballet and modern dance forms.^[16] Kelly himself refused to categorize his style: "I don't have a name for my style of dancing...It's certainly hybrid...I've borrowed from the modern dance, from the classical, and certainly from the American folk dance – tap-dancing, jitterbugging...But I have tried to develop a style which is indigenous to the environment in which I was reared."^[16] He especially acknowledged the influence of George M. Cohan: "I have a lot of Cohan in me. It's an Irish quality, a jaw-jutting, up-on-the-toes cockiness – which is a good quality for a male dancer to have."^[4] He was also heavily influenced by an African-American dancer Dancing Dotson, whom he saw at Loew's Penn. Theatre around 1929, and was briefly taught by Frank Harrington, an African-American tap specialist from New York.^[17] However, his main interest was in ballet, which he studied under Kotchetovsky in the early Thirties. As biographer Clive Hirschhorn explains: "As a child he used to run for miles through parks and streets and woods – anywhere, just as long as he could feel the wind against his body and through his hair. Ballet gave him the same feeling of exhilaration, and in 1933 he was convinced it was the most satisfying form of self-expression."^[6] He also studied Spanish dancing under Angel Cansino, Rita Hayworth's uncle.^[6] Generally speaking, he tended to use tap and other popular dance idioms to express joy and exuberance – as in the title song from Singin' in the Rain or "I Got Rhythm" from An American in Paris, whereas pensive or romantic feelings were more often expressed via ballet or modern dance, as in "Heather on the Hill" from Brigadoon or "Our Love Is Here to Stay" from An American in Paris.^[16]

According to Delamater, Kelly's work "seems to represent the fulfillment of dance-film integration in the 1940s and 1950s". While Fred Astaire had revolutionized the filming of dance in the 1930s by insisting on full-figure photography of dancers while allowing only a modest degree of camera movement, Kelly freed up the camera, making greater use of space, camera movement, camera angles and editing, creating a partnership between dance movement and camera movement without sacrificing full-figure framing. Kelly's reasoning behind this was that he felt the kinetic force of live dance often evaporated when brought to film, and he sought to partially overcome this by involving the camera in movement and giving the dancer a greater number of directions in which to move. Examples of this abound in Kelly's work and are well illustrated in the "Prehistoric Man" sequence from On the Town and "The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day" from Take Me Out to the Ball Game.^[16] In 1951, he summed up his vision as follows: "If the camera is to make a contribution at all to dance, this must be the focal point of its contribution; the fluid background, giving each spectator an undistorted and altogether similar view of dancer and background. To accomplish this, the camera is made fluid, moving with the dancer, so that the lens becomes the eye of the spectator, your eye".^[1]

Kelly's athleticism gave his moves a distinctive broad, muscular quality,^[16] and this was a very deliberate choice on his part, as he explained: "There's a strong link between sports and dancing, and my own dancing springs from my early days as an athlete...I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman."^[4] He railed against what he saw as the widespread effeminacy in male dancing which, in his opinion, "tragically" stigmatized the genre, alienating boys from entering the field: "Dancing does attract effeminate young men. I don't object to that as long as they don't dance effeminately. I just say that if a man dances effeminately he dances badly — just as if a woman comes out on stage and starts to sing bass. Unfortunately people confuse gracefulness with softness. John Wayne is a graceful man and so are some of the great ball players...but, of course, they don't run the risk of being called sissies."^[4] In his view, "one of our problems is that so much dancing is taught by women. You can spot many male dancers who have this tuition by their arm movements — they are soft, limp and feminine."^[4] He acknowledged that, in spite of his efforts — in TV programs such as Dancing: A Man's Game (1958) for example — the situation changed little over the years.^[4]

He also sought to break from the class-conscious conventions of the 1930s and early 40s, when top hat and tails or tuxedos were the norm, by dancing in casual or everyday work clothes, so as to make his dancing more relevant to the cinema-going public. As his first wife, actress and dancer Betsy Blair explained: "A sailor suit or his white socks and loafers, or the T-shirts on his muscular torso, gave everyone the feeling that he was a regular guy, and perhaps they too could express love and joy by dancing in the street or stomping through puddles...he democratized the dance in movies."^[18] In particular, he wanted to create a completely different image from that associated with Fred Astaire, not least because he believed his physique didn't suit such refined elegance: "I used to envy his cool aristocratic style, so intimate and contained. Fred wears top hat and tails to the manor born — I put them on and look like a truck driver."^[4]

Personal life and death[link]

Kelly, photographed by Allan Warren, in 1986

Kelly was married to Betsy Blair for 15 years (1941–1957) and they had one child, Kerry. Kelly divorced Blair in 1957. In 1960, Kelly married his choreographic assistant Jeanne Coyne, who had divorced Stanley Donen in 1949 after a brief marriage. He remained married to Coyne from 1960 until her death in 1973 and they had two children, Bridget and Tim. He was married to Patricia Ward from 1990 until his death in 1996.

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party with strong progressive convictions,^[19] which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U.S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His first wife, Betsy Blair, was suspected of being a Communist sympathizer and when MGM, who had offered Blair a part in Marty (1955), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the American Legion, Kelly successfully threatened MGM with a pullout from It's Always Fair Weather unless his wife was restored to the part.^[6][20] He used his position on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, West on a number of occasions to mediate disputes between unions and the Hollywood studios, and although he was frequently accused by some on the right of championing the unions, he was valued by the studios as an effective mediator.^{[citation needed]}

Kelly was raised as a Roman Catholic, but after becoming disenfchanted by the Roman Catholic Church's support for Francisco Franco against the Spanish Republic,^[21]he officially severed his ties with the church in September 1939. This separation was prompted, in part, by a trip Kelly made to Mexico in which he became convinced of the Church’s failure in helping the poor.^[21] After his departure from the Catholic Church, Kelly became an agnostic and remained so, for the rest of his life.^[22] He retained a lifelong passion for sports and relished competition. He was known as a big fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Yankees. From the mid-40s through the early 50s, he and Blair organized weekly parties at their Beverly Hills home, and they often played an intensely competitive and physical version of charades, known as "The Game".^[20]

Kelly's health declined steadily in the late 80s, for a stroke in July 1994 resulted in a seven week hospital stay. Another one in early 1995 left him mostly bedridden at his Beverly Hills, California home, and Kelly died in his sleep on February 2, 1996 before his body was cremated. His last will is without any funeral or memorial services.^[23] Kelly's papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

Awards and honors[link]

Plaque honoring Gene Kelly at his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh

• 1946 – Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in Anchors Aweigh (1945).
• 1952 – Honorary Academy Award "in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film." This Oscar was lost in a fire in 1983 and replaced at the 1984 Academy Awards.
• 1956 – Golden Bear at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival for Invitation to the Dance.^[24]
• 1958 – Nomination for Golden Laurel Award for Best Male Musical Performance in Les Girls.
• 1958 – Dance Magazine's annual TV Award for Dancing: A Man's Game from the Omnibus television series. It was also nominated for an Emmy for best choreography.
• 1960 – In France, Kelly was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
• 1962 – Gene Kelly Dance Film Festival staged by the Museum of Modern Art.
• 1964 – Silver Sail Best Actor for What a Way to Go! (1964) at the Locarno International Film Festival.
• 1967 – Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program for Jack and the Beanstalk.
• 1970 – Nomination for Golden Globe, Best Director for Hello, Dolly!, 1969.
• 1981 – Cecil B. DeMille Award at Golden Globes.
• 1981 – Gene Kelly was the subject of a two-week film festival in France.
• 1982 – Lifetime Achievement Award in the fifth annual Kennedy Center Honors.
• 1985 – Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
• 1989 – Life Achievement Award from Screen Actors Guild.
• 1991 – University of Pittsburgh inaugurates The Gene Kelly Awards, given annually to high school musicals in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
• 1992 – Induction into the Theater Hall of Fame.
• 1994 – National Medal of Arts awarded by United States President Bill Clinton.^[25]
• 1994 – The Three Tenors performed Singin' in the Rain in his presence during a concert at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
• 1996 – Honorary César Award The César is the main national film award in France.
• 1996 – At the Academy Awards ceremony, director Quincy Jones organised a tribute to the just-deceased Kelly, in which Savion Glover performed the dance to "Singin' in the Rain".
• 1997 – Ranked #26 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
• 1999 – Ranked #15 in the American Film Institute's "Greatest Legends" list.

Work[link]

Filmography[link]

Musical films[link]

Gene Kelly appeared as actor and dancer in the following musical films. He always choreographed his own dance routines, and often the dance routines of others, and often used assistants. As was the practice at the time, he was rarely formally credited in the film titles:^[1]

Stage[link]

Television[link]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

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• Gene Kelly at the Internet Movie Database
• Gene Kelly at the TCM Movie Database
• Gene Kelly at the Internet Broadway Database
• The Gene Kelly Awards – University of Pittsburgh
• Obituary, NY Times, February 3, 1996
• Naval Intelligence File on Gene Kelly
• Gene Kelly – An American Life – PBS