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Gene Kelly - what members say
review by paulyb from
Phenomenal, happy throughout, intelligent 7 September 2011
review by A customer from London, England
An American in Paris - sights, sounds and symphony 9 July 2004
review by A customer from Sussex
I've Seen Better..... 24 May 2004
Gene Kelly - filmography
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Hollywood Musicals Of The 50's
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Howard Keel
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This salute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1950s includes excerpts from 'An American in Paris', 'Kismet', 'Singin' in the Rain', 'Kiss Me Kate', 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers', 'The Band Wagon' and 'Oklahoma!', amongst others. Stars include Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds and Donald ..read more »
 
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from 236 members
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
(1997)
Starring: Bobby Short, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland
Director: Allan Albert
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Hosted and narrated by renowned entertainer and Cole Porter devotee Bobby Short, You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story probes the many facets of Porter's persona. One of the most skillful composers ever, Porter created such Broadway and Hollywood hits as Kiss Me Kate, Anything Goes, Silk Stockings ..read more »
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from 4 members
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Sins - Complete
(3 discs)
(1986)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Giancarlo Giannini, Marisa Berenson
Director: Douglas Hickox
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Both parts of a mini-series starring Joan Collins a young and beautiful head of an international business empire who seemingly has it all until a secret from her past starts to catch up with her.
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from 132 members
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Xanadu
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Olivia Newton-John
Director: Robert Greenwald
Certificate: 
Olivia Newton-John plays the goddess of dance in this rock/pop musical, based on the 1947 film 'Down To Earth'. She is sent down from the heavens by Zeus to inspire a frustrated young artist and a nightclub owner to realise their dreams in the form of a rollerdisco. The real-life god of dance Gene ..read more »
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from 1,514 member
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Frank Sinatra - The First 40 Years
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Tony Bennett, Gene Kelly, Sammy Davis Jr.
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Recording of the 1979 tribute concert in which famous names from the world of entertainment gathered to honour Frank Sinatra's first 40 years in the business. Includes appearances from daughter Nancy, regular co-star Gene Kelly, crooning colleague Tony Bennett, and fellow Rat-Packers Dean Martin ..read more »
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from 74 members
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Viva Knievel!
(1977)
Starring: Evel Knievel, Gene Kelly, Lauren Hutton
Director: Gordon Douglas
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As the legendary stuntman travels to Mexico to prepare for one of his greatest stunts yet, he takes time out of his schedule to meet his fans, help out lonely orphans, and try to get his alcoholic mechanic to reconcile with his son. While all of this is going on, Evel's main rival is plotting to ..read more »
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from 8 members
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Hello Dolly
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Marianne McAndrew, E. J. Peaker, Barbra Streisand
Director: Gene Kelly
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Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her energy carries her right through the role and dominates the lackluster movie around her. The plot, drawn from Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (itself based on a 19th-..read more »
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from 2,384 members
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Hello, Dolly! - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Director: Gene Kelly
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Musical comedy of romantic errors set in 1920s New York. Dolly Gallagher Levi (Barbra Streisand), recently widowed and living in Yonkers, New York, is something of a society matchmaker. Hired to find the perfect beau for the also just widowed millionaire Horace Vandergelder (Walther Matthau), Dolly ..read more »
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A Guide for the Married Man
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon
Director: Gene Kelly
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Robert Morse convinces his best friend Walter Matthau that he should fool around with other women in order to preserve his happy marriage. Morse illustrates his point with a series of vignettes acted out by a lot of famous celebrities. Among them are Jayne Mansfield, Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Jack ..read more »
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from 24 members
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Michel Piccoli, Francoise Dorleac
Director: Jacques Demy
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Romance begins busting out all over in Rochefort. A fair is being organized, giving the town an air of excitement and effervescence. Twin sisters Delphine, a dance teacher, and Solange, a pianist and a composer, dream of making it big in the world of music. The sisters, like many in Rochefort, ..read more »
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from 822 members
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What A Way To Go
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Wally Vernon
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Classic black comedy which opens with Louisa Foster (Shirley MacLaine) donating a multimillion dollar cheque to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died ..read more »
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from 239 members
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Let's Make Love
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Randall, Yves Montand
Director: George Cukor
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A millionaire is out to destroy a show that makes fun of him, until he meets cast member Monroe. To get closer to her he joins the cast and hires Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly and Milton Berle (as themselves) to teach him the performing arts.
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from 443 members
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Inherit The Wind
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Dick York, Florence Eldridge
Director: Stanley Kramer
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The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of ..read more »
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from 1,134 member
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Marjorie Morningstar
(1958)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor
Director: Irving Rapper
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While working at a summer camp during vacation from Hunter College, a teenage girl rebels from her middle-class Jewish upbringing by falling in with a second-rate theatrical troupe and by falling in love with the charismatic leading man.
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from 9 members
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Invitation to the Dance
(1956)
Starring: Gene Kelly
Director: Gene Kelly
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Using no dialogue, the film presents three different ballets: Circus, Ring Around the Rosy and Sinbad the Sailor, introducing the art of ballet to the audience.
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from 5 members
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It's Always Fair Weather
(1955)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
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Three soldiers return from World War II service in 1945 and rejoice and celebrate all the way to New York. They make a pact to reunite 10 years later at the same bar and recount their lives since. When they do so, each discovers that it has been no bed of roses: they've all become failures. ..read more »
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from 16 members
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Brigadoon
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's studio mockups looked more Scottish than the genuine article. This lavish adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical stars Gene Kelly as an American tourist who stumbles ..read more »
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from 1,556 member
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Singin' in the Rain
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse
Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of Tinseltown. While Lockwood and Lamont personify smoldering passions onscreen, in real life the down-to-earth Lockwood can't stand the egotistical, brainless Lina. He prefers the ..read more »
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from 13,938 members
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An American In Paris
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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American G.I. Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become a painter. There he falls in love with Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron), only to discover that she is engaged to his friend Henri Baurel (Georges Guetary). With music and songs by George and Ira Gershwin, including 'I Got ..read more »
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from 4,098 members
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The Three Musketeers
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Lana Turner
Director: George Sidney
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To the cry of "all for one and one for all" comes a version of the Dumas classic that's fun for all - a rousing swashbuckling adaptation that was Gene Kelly's favourite among his nonmusical movies.
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from 138 members
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The Pirate
(1948)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Judy Garland
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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On a Caribbean isle in the early 19th century, sheltered young Manuela comes to believe that traveling troubadour Serafin is in reality "Mack the Black," a notorious pirate. Serafin realizes that the surest way to win Manuela's heart is to impersonate the romantic buccaneer, and this is what he ..read more »
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from 54 members
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Anchors Aweigh
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
Director: George Sidney
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Two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood where, in their relentless effort to pick up girls, they become involved with a charming, fatherless boy who want to join the Navy and his beautiful aunt who's trying to get an audition with famous pianist Jose Iturbi.
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from 178 members
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Cover Girl
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Otto Kruger, Phil Silvers
Director: Charles Vidor
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Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth) is a nightclub dancer who rockets to fame and fortune after she is plucked from the chorus line and embarks on a career as a magazine cover girl. But will her newfound success risk alienating her from the man she truly loves? Co-starring Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers and Eve ..read more »
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from 687 members
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Christmas Holiday
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Deanna Durbin
Director: Robert Siodmak
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An army lieutenant (Dean Harens), recently ditched by his fiancée, is introduced to a New Orleans bordello by a drinking mate. Here he meets singer Jackie Lamont (Durbin) - a woman with a dark past and an even darker secret... Her real name is Abigail Manette and her husband, Robert Manette (Gene ..read more »
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from 384 members
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For Me and My Gal
(1942)
Starring: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly
Director: Busby Berkeley
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Set during WW I, Palmer and Hayden team up as vaudeville artists. Harry Palmer deliberately injures his hand to avoid being drafted to the army. Later, he makes up for this. WW I patriotism for a WW II audience, very sentimental, great musical episodes and songs.
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from 337 members
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Gene Kelly facts
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...sland, I'd be happy to have this as my film of choice.
No one can dance like Gene Kelly AND make it look so easy....
