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The Basics: What Was The Game?

Posted by Jennifer on Jul 20, 2011 in biography, books, family, Gene Kelly: The Basics | 5 comments

This entry is part 8 of 16 in the series Gene Kelly: The Basics.Even fairly casual fans of Gene Kelly learn early on that he was known for being highly competitive and a perfectionist and that, moreover, he expected those he worked with to work as hard as he did. This attitude extended into how he played, and nowhere perhaps is this more evident than with The Game. A variation on charades, The Game was a fixture of Kelly house parties between roughly the mid 1940s through the early ’50s when...