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The Basics: Did Gene Star in Any Non-Musical Pictures?

Posted by Kelly on Jul 28, 2011 in biography, featured, Gene Kelly: The Basics, non-musicals | 0 comments

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...