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Gene Kelly vs. Fred Astaire: A Fan Weighs In

Posted by Jennifer on Aug 29, 2011 in essays, featured, MGM, musicals | 31 comments

This entry is part 7 of 13 in the series Essays / Analyses.Over the years, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly have been compared and contrasted endlessly.  They were often featured together in retrospectives in film, television, and even in a commercial.  I shouldn’t be surprised if they got a bit tired of seeing each other at some level!  And yet such a practice on the part of the public is understandable: when it came to male cinematic dancing in the 1940s and ’50s, the two of them were...