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Thank You, Gene Kelly, for Not Directing Cabaret

Posted by Kelli on Aug 7, 2011 in family, featured, MGM, musicals | 2 comments

This entry is part 6 of 13 in the series Essays / Analyses.Last week I stumbled across several 1976 newspaper articles in which Gene Kelly discusses his return to movies. After the death of his (second) wife, Jeanne Coyne, Kelly turned down virtually any film project that would take him away from the couple’s two young children, Tim and Bridget. At this point, single fatherhood was his life. But with the blessing of his kids, he returned to the silver screen in the dramatic (not musical)...