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To Find Help: Gene Kelly on the Radio

Posted by Kelli on Aug 27, 2011 in non-musicals, radio | 6 comments

“I never thought I would say this, but Gene scared the hell out of me!! He was creepy, weird, unhinged, menacing, psychotic, but at the same time eliciting sympathy.” — AuntSuzy A radio program starring Ethel Barrymore and Gene Kelly, “To Find Help” (1949) is a “World War II era cautionary tale about an older woman who hires a young man to do some handywork around her house. She doesn’t know the man well, but help is hard to find because of the war....