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Happy Birthday Gene Kelly!

Dancer, Singer, Actor, Director, Choreographer, Producer

Born Eugene Curran Kelly on August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

“I actually love to create the dance more than I love to dance it. So naturally, I got into directing.  That was my greatest joy. Once I created a dance number, I didn’t care about performing it as much as I did when I was creating it. So the directing was always more of a pleasant task to me than the actual performing.”  

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Happy Birthday Eugene Curran Kelly!

August 23rd, 1912 - February 2nd, 1996

“Kelly found out fairly early how people all over the world felt about him and Singin’ in the Rain. In June, 1953, he and his family were invited to witness the procession leading to the coronation of Elizabeth II in London. The street was crowded and it began to rain as the Kellys made their way to the office of Jules Stein of the talent agency MCA. Suddenly, a man with a loudspeaker announced, “Now ladies and gentlemen, I’d like you all to join Gene Kelly in ‘Singin’ in the Rain.’“ Someone connected a recording of the song to the loudspeaker, filling the street with its music. “A few seconds later,” Kelly recalled after twenty years, “thousands of lovely, cold, wet, shivering Englishmen and women started to sing. It was the biggest thrill of my life. It beat anything I’d ever known. …and I felt if I never achieved another thing … I’d have justified my existence.”
-Singin’ in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece

I don’t understand how I went almost 20 years without having Gene Kelly in my life. I hope he knows just how much his legacy is living and how much we all love him. No matter what mood I’m in, just thinking about him and his effortless moves and his charming smile I can’t help but feel better. Thank you, Gene.

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When you are out in public, do women ever ask you to dance with them?

Sure, all the time. The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with them they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table or twist them all around. All I want to do is one-two, one-two-three—a simple fox trot. But they’re shaking with anticipation at the thought that I’m about to whip them around and then toss them on the roof.

That sounds like a very pressure-filled situation.

The only time I feel pressured is when some woman’s husband comes over and says, “Will you go ask my wife to dance? She’s a great dancer and would just love to dance with you.” Okay, so I go ask his wife to dance and he goes around and tells all of his friends. Suddenly there’s a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they’re about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it’s showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.

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“I must say that Joyce is one of the best physical comics I’ve ever worked with. We could throw each other around without hurting each other. And I always knew she’d be there to catch me. I always knew I could trust her.” - John Ritter  “ You occasionally work with someone you can communicate with nonverbally. You can feel what the other person is thinking or how they are going to move. John and I were like that.” - Joyce DeWitt
#IM NOT CRYING#YOU ARE#jacket#tc#threes company#John Ritter#joyce dewitt
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