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  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Singin' in the Rain review by paulyb from
    Rated - 5.0 stars Phenomenal, happy throughout, intelligent 7 September 2011
    ...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....   Read customer review
  • An American In Paris
  • An American In Paris review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars An American in Paris - sights, sounds and symphony 9 July 2004
    ... landmarks with stunning shots, great if you have never been or love the city. Gene Kelly as ever is a great lead and the songs and dance numbers remind you of a better ...   Read customer review
  • Cover Girl
  • Cover Girl review by A customer from Sussex
    Rated - 3.0 stars I've Seen Better..... 24 May 2004
    ...Not one of Gene Kelly's best musicals, but worth a watch anyway. The story is rather predictable but the songs and dance numbers are a joy (especially the one where Kell...   Read customer review

Gene Kelly - filmography


  • Hollywood Musicals Of The 50's on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Debbie Reynolds,  Gene Kelly,  Howard Keel
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 4 members
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  • Sins - Complete (3 discs) (1986)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Giancarlo Giannini,  Marisa Berenson
    Director: Douglas Hickox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 132 members
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  • Xanadu on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Olivia Newton-John
    Director: Robert Greenwald
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% 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.
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 74 members
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  • Viva Knievel! (1977)
    Starring: Evel Knievel,  Gene Kelly,  Lauren Hutton
    Director: Gordon Douglas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 8 members
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  • Hello Dolly on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Marianne McAndrew,  E. J. Peaker,  Barbra Streisand
    Director: Gene Kelly
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,384 members
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  • Hello, Dolly! - Blu-ray (1969)
    Starring: Barbra Streisand,  Walter Matthau,  Michael Crawford
    Director: Gene Kelly
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3 members
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  • A Guide for the Married Man on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Walter Matthau,  Inger Stevens,  Sue Ane Langdon
    Director: Gene Kelly
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 24 members
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  • What A Way To Go on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Robert Mitchum,  Wally Vernon
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 239 members
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  • Let's Make Love on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Marilyn Monroe,  Tony Randall,  Yves Montand
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 443 members
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  • Inherit The Wind on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Dick York,  Florence Eldridge
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 1,134 member
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  • Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Natalie Wood,  Claire Trevor
    Director: Irving Rapper
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 9 members
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  • Invitation to the Dance (1956)
    Starring: Gene Kelly
    Director: Gene Kelly
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 56% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 16 members
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  • Brigadoon on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Cyd Charisse,  Elaine Stewart
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 75% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,098 members
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  • The Three Musketeers on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  June Allyson,  Lana Turner
    Director: George Sidney
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 138 members
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  • The Pirate (1948)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Walter Slezak,  Judy Garland
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 54 members
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  • Anchors Aweigh on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Frank Sinatra,  Kathryn Grayson,  Gene Kelly
    Director: George Sidney
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 178 members
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  • Cover Girl on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Otto Kruger,  Phil Silvers
    Director: Charles Vidor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 687 members
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  • Christmas Holiday on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Richard Whorf,  Deanna Durbin
    Director: Robert Siodmak
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An army lieutenant (Dean Harens), recently ditched by his fiancĂ©e, 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 384 members
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  • For Me and My Gal (1942)
    Starring: Judy Garland,  George Murphy,  Gene Kelly
    Director: Busby Berkeley
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 337 members
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Gene Kelly facts

5 most recent films

Hollywood Musicals Of The 50's - 2.5 stars
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story - 2.5 stars
Sins - Complete - 3.0 stars
Xanadu - 3.0 stars
Frank Sinatra - The First 40 Years - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Singin' in the Rain - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
On the Town - 4.0 stars
Inherit The Wind - 4.0 stars
Singin' in the Rain - 4.0 stars
Anchors Aweigh - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Seagulls Over Sorrento - 3 stars
Viva Knievel! - 2.0 stars
Marjorie Morningstar - 2.5 stars
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story - 2.5 stars
A Guide for the Married Man - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Cyd Charisse - 10 times - show films
Debbie Reynolds - 7 times - show films
Donald O'Connor - 7 times - show films
Jean Hagen - 6 times - show films
Millard Mitchell - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stanley Donen - 13 times - show films
Vincente Minnelli - 6 times - show films
Douglas Hickox - 4 times - show films
George Sidney - 2 times - show films
George Cukor - 2 times - show films