Aunt 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 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 MorePaula Abdul, Still Talking about Gene Kelly
In this issue of Los Angeles Magazine (Sept. 2011), Paula Abdul recounts her experiences living and working in L.A. Thankfully, she’s still bringing Gene Kelly into the conversation: My first memory of being affected by a performance was seeing Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain. I was four. We lived in these condominiums in North Hollywood—just off of Coldwater, right across from the Victory Drive-In. I would gather up the kids in the courtyard of our building and was directing and...
Read MoreThe Basics: When Did Gene Kelly Die?
This entry is part 1 of 16 in the series Gene Kelly: The Basics.In July 1994, Gene Kelly suffered the first of two strokes. Although doctors at UCLA’s Medical Center labeled it “mild,” the stroke kept him in the hospital for nearly seven weeks. Gene suffered another, much smaller stroke in Feburary 1995. “He was neurologically stable, aware, and conversational,” the Associated Press reported the following day. But sadly, Gene would never fully recover from this...
Read MoreThe Basics: Where Did Gene Live While He Worked in Hollywood?
This entry is part 9 of 16 in the series Gene Kelly: The Basics.Gene Kelly lived in several places while he worked in Hollywood. After arriving in Los Angeles in 1941, Gene’s first residence was at Laurel Canyon in a small house on Lookout Mountain Drive. He acquired this house through his New York agent, Johnny Darrow who, at the time, was beginning to dabble in real estate. The house was in no way a flashy structure. In fact, upon first moving into their home, Kelly and his then wife,...
Read MoreOn L.A.’s Nairobi Room and Gene’s Son, Tim Kelly
This 1984 People magazine article primarily discusses the African-themed Nairobi Room, an after-hours club in L.A. which Gene’s son, Tim Kelly, once co-managed with a friend. But there are a few Gene-related tidbits in the column as well. In the image to the right, Gene hugs Tim while holding his replacement Oscar. Read the article to learn more about why the “little gold man” had to be replaced. (Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Brittany...
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