The Basics: Did Gene Star in Any Non-Musical Pictures?
This entry is part 11 of 16 in the series Gene Kelly: The Basics.Yes, Gene Kelly starred in many non-musical pictures. He may be most widely known as a song-and-dance man, but his “straight pictures” (i.e., no singing or dancing) were just about as numerous. In total, not counting the TV productions, he starred in 14 non-musical pictures. Part of the reasoning for having Gene star in non-musical pictures was for the studio to get their money’s worth out of him. It made no economic...
Read MoreForgotten Christmas Movies (1940s)
Annette Smith of HubPages has compiled a list of nine lesser-known Christmas movies from the 1940s. Among the “forgotten” films mentioned (e.g., Penny Serenade, I’ll Be Seeing You, Holiday Affair) is Christmas Holiday (1944), a film noir featuring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. (We’ve posted more about the noir here.) As most GK fans know, Christmas Holiday is hard to find for rent or purchase, but Smith claims the movie is available for download on some Internet...
Read MoreDeanna Durbin and Christmas Holiday
Movie Fan Fare features a lengthy post on Christmas Holiday, a film noir starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. Not much attention is paid to GK here, but if you’re a noir fan (as I am) you might appreciate parts of the guest blogger’s analysis: What gets overlooked is the strength of the film’s noir statement. The film is mildly unorthodox in that its universe is more thematically than visually noirish, and even more so because its protagonist is a woman. Christmas Holiday is...
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