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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer.
A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable...
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What a Way to Go!
What A Way To Go! is a 1964 American comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly and Dick Van Dyke.
Shirley MacLaine plays Louisa May Foster, a romantic young woman who...
Marjorie Morningstar
Marjorie Morningstar is a 1958 melodrama film based on the 1955 novel of the same name. The film, released by Warner Bros. Pictures and directed by Irving Rapper tells a fictional coming of age story about a young Jewish girl in New York City in the...
Les Girls
Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 comedy film musical made by MGM. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C. Siegel with Saul Chaplin as associate producer from a screenplay by John Patrick based on a story by...
It's Always Fair Weather
It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM musical film scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, scored by André Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray. Directed by...
Summer Stock
For the article about the theatre genre, see Summer stock theatre.
Summer Stock (known as If You Feel Like Singing in the UK) is an MGM musical made in 1950. The film was directed by Charles Walters and stars Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken,...
Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies (MGM) is a 1946 Hollywood musical comedy film, directed by Roy Del Ruth and Vincente Minnelli, starring many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne,...
Cover Girl
Cover Girl is a 1944 American musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film tells the story of a chorus girl given a chance at stardom when she is offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl. The film was directed by Charles...
Thousands Cheer
Thousands Cheer was an American musical-comedy released by MGM in 1943.
Produced at the height of the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families.
The movie is essentially a two-part program....
For Me and My Gal
For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, in his screen debut, and George Murphy. The movie was written by Richard Sherman, Fred F. Finklehoffe and Sid Silvers, based on a...
The Pirate
The Pirate is a 1948 American musical feature film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It starred Gene Kelly and Judy Garland with co-stars Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, and George Zucco.
Manuela Alva (Judy Garland), who lives in the small...
An American in Paris
An American in Paris is a 1951 MGM musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by...
Anchors Aweigh
Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 musical comedy live-action/animated film, directed by George Sidney in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an...
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Christmas Holiday
Christmas Holiday is a 1944 drama directed by Robert Siodmak. The black-and-white film noir is loosely based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Producer Felix Jackson chose this project as a dramatic vehicle for Deanna Durbin. The screenplay was...
Inherit the Wind
Inherit the Wind is a 1960 Hollywood film adaptation of the play of the same name, directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy (Drummond) and Fredric March (Brady), and featuring Gene Kelly (Hornbeck), Dick York (Cates), Harry Morgan ...
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Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood, and its...
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That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was followed by two sequels and a related film called That's Dancing!.
The film, compiled by Jack Haley, Jr., turned the spotlight...
Viva Knievel!
Viva Knievel! is a 1977 action movie starring Evel Knievel (as himself), Gene Kelly, and Lauren Hutton.
Daredevil motorcycle rider Evel Knievel stars as himself in this fictional story. The film opens with Knievel sneaking into an orphanage late at...
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Xanadu
Xanadu is a 1980 musical/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It is an unofficial remake of the 1947 film Down to Earth starring Rita Hayworth, as well as an unofficial sequel to the 1944 film Cover Girl in which Gene Kelly plays the same...
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) is a 1967 musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve, her sister Françoise Dorléac (who was killed in a car accident shortly after filming), Jacques Perrin, Michel...
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers (1948) is a Technicolor adventure film adaptation of the classic novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. It starred Gene Kelly and Lana Turner and also co-starred Van Heflin, June Allyson, Vincent Price and Angela...
That's Entertainment III
That's Entertainment! III (1994) is a documentary film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate the studio's 70th anniversary. It was the third in a series of retrospectives that began with the first That's Entertainment! (1974) and That's...
DuBarry Was a Lady
DuBarry Was a Lady (1939) is a Broadway musical, starring Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva. The song "Friendship" was one of the highlights. The musical...
The Devil Makes Three
The Devil Makes Three is a 1952 thriller film set in post-World War II Germany, starring Pier Angeli, Gene Kelly and Richard Egan.
Captain Jeff Eliot returns to Germany in 1947 to visit the family who rescued him and hid him from the Nazis after his...
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment, Part II was a 1976 motion picture by MGM, and a sequel to the 1974 documentary, That's Entertainment!. Like the previous film, That's Entertainment, Part II was a retrospective of famous films released by MGM from the 1930s to...
Pilot no. 5
Pilot No. 5 (also known as Pilot #5) is a 1943 film starring Gene Kelly, Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Van Johnson, and an uncredited Peter Lawford. It was directed by George Sidney.
Invitation to the Dance
Invitation to the Dance (1956) is an anthology film consisting of three distinct stories, all starring and directed by Gene Kelly.
The film is unusual in that it has no spoken dialogue, with the characters performing their roles entirely through...
40 Carats
Forty Carats is a 1973 American film directed by Milton Katselas, based on the play by Jay Presson Allen. The screenplay was written by Leonard Gershe (who significantly changed the ending) and directed by Milton Katselas. The cast include Liv...
On the Town
On the Town is a 1949 movie musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of a Broadway stage musical produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score...
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Living in a Big Way
Living in a Big Way (1947) is an American musical comedy film starring Gene Kelly and Marie McDonald as a couple who marry during World War II after only knowing each other a short time.
Leo Gogarty (Kelly) marries Margaud Morgan (McDonald) after a...
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Take Me Out to the Ballgame is a 1949 musical comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams and Gene Kelly.
Brigadoon
Brigadoon (1954) is an MGM musical feature film made in CinemaScope and Ansco Color based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson,...
The Cross of Lorraine
The Cross of Lorraine is a 1943 war film about French prisoners of war held by the Germans in World War II. It stars Jean-Pierre Aumont and Gene Kelly and was adapted from Hans Habe's novel A Thousand Shall Fall.
Seagulls Over Sorrento
Seagulls Over Sorrento is a 1954 British wartime drama film made by the Boulting Brothers based on the play of the same name by Hugh Hastings. The film stars Gene Kelly and was one of three made by Kelly in Europe over an 18 month period in order to...
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a 1949 Technicolor musical film starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. The title and nominal theme is taken from the unofficial anthem of American baseball, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". The movie was released in...
