Gene Kelly in Toon Town
Animation Magazine remembers Gene Kelly’s contribution to onscreen animation: Over the course of five decades, he more than paid his dues in the toon trenches. Kelly was actually a pioneer in the art of the seamless melding of live action and animation, first in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh, in which he had a fantasy-sequence dance number with Jerry Mouse. [Read...
Read MoreDebbie Reynolds’ Blog
Debbie Reynolds has a blog and it occasionally features entries like these that mention her Singin’ in the Rain co-star. No, not Donald O’Connor. That other...
Read MoreAunt Suzy Goes to Hollywood
One of our occasional contributors and author of the comprehensive site Gene Kelly: Creative Geneius, Sue (aka. Aunt Suzy) recently returned from Hollywood where she and a fellow Gene Kelly fan (Carol) attended the Turner Classic Film Festival to see Cover Girl and Singin in the Rain. According to her post, Sue and Carol also visited Gene Kelly’s LA homes (on Rodeo Drive and Alta Drive), the UCLA media library (where they watched some of the Kelly home movies), and Sony Picture Studios...
Read MoreGene Kelly in the 21st Century
I’ve finally had a chance to upload my academic talk on Gene Kelly’s presence in the twenty-first century. If you’re so inclined, you’ll find it over on Media | Academia. Google+
Read MoreFootball, Marching Band, and Kissing Mr. Kelly
Underneath the delightful post “Of the Marvelous Gene Kelly,” I noticed the following comment and couldn’t help but embed it here as well. Thanks for letting us share your story, Beth! I actually kissed Gene Kelly. It’s true! He came to my university to give an “in-service” to our dance department and they had him come out to the football game that Saturday and wave to the crowd (he would have been in his early ’70s at the time). I was in the marching band on...
Read MoreA Fan Comes Face to Face with Gene Kelly
Over at Dirty and Thirty, Celeste Donohue reminisces about the time she encountered Gene Kelly. Here’s a taste: So there we are, driving around, map in hand and as we started to drive down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills I said, “OMG, Gene Kelly lives on this street!” (back then I actually said “Oh my God”, not OMG, but now OMG is all you need). I’m looking at the map as we continued down the street and said, “THERE IT IS, THAT’S HIS HOUSE! Pull over, I have to take a...
Read MoreCyd Charisse: All Doll’d Up
This post over at Blame Mame features Joan Alburene’s repainted dolls of classical Hollywood. From Singin’ in the Rain, Cyd Charisse gets a mention… Google+
Read MoreGifts Inspired by Gene Kelly and His Movies
Gene Kelly’s birthday was last week, but this just showed up in my Google Alerts. Looks as though someone’s been making gifts inspired by Gene Kelly’s movies! Very interesting and cool. See the Wantist for more information. The movies represented are some of his most famous. These would be a neat gift for any Gene...
Read MoreDon Lockwood Killed in Freak Auto Accident
Posted over at Jim Lane’s Cinedrome, these “Items from Cosmo Brown’s Scrapbook” are, I believe, the most bizarre Singin’ in the Rain-related material I’ve ever come across. The (fake) letters and memos from Kathy Selden, Phoebe Dinsmore (“round tones!”), Dora Bailey, and R.F. Simpson discuss, among other events, the accidental death of Don Lockwood (struck by a taxi cab!), the nixing of The Dueling Cavalier, and Selden’s apparent breach of...
Read MoreGene Kelly Craft-Along
Join Sister-Diane and others for a “Gene Kelly craft-along,” commencing now. From their blog, CraftyPod… Well, my Twitter pals and I aim to make the world a Gene-Kelly-craftier place, and you’re cordially invited to join in! This is a very informal affair — there aren’t any hard deadlines. The whole thing starts today (which is, appropriately enough, the man’s 100th [sic] birthday, were he still with us). From here, feel free to make a Gene-based craft and share it...
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