In 1951, MGM released the musical An American in Paris, featuring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron.

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Eugene Curran " Gene " Kelly ( August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996 ) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer.

In 1932, the dance studio was renamed The Gene Kelly Studio of the Dance.

Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry Mouse | Jerry in Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 )

In 1970, he made another TV special: Gene Kelly and 50 Girls and was invited to bring the show to Las Vegas, Nevada, which he duly did for an eight-week stint – on condition he be paid more than any artist had hitherto been paid there.

Plaque honoring Gene Kelly at his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh

* 1962 – Gene Kelly Dance Film Festival staged by the Museum of Modern Art.

* 1981 – Gene Kelly was the subject of a two-week film festival in France.

* 1991 – Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera inaugurates The Gene Kelly Awards, given annually to high school musicals in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

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She is one of the few dancers or actresses who has danced with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Rudolf Nureyev.

Gene Kelly discovered her in Roland Petit Company " Ballet des Champs Elysées ", and cast her to appear opposite him in the musical An American in Paris ( 1951 ), a role in which a pregnant Cyd Charisse was originally cast.

* 8 December 2009: Hollywood Walk of Fame Star on Hollywood Boulevard ( n ° 6153 ), between Gene Kelly and Louis Jourdan

This era saw musical stars become household names, including Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller, Donald O ' Connor, Cyd Charisse, Mickey Rooney, Vera-Ellen, Jane Powell, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson.

An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin ' in the Rain as well as Debbie Allen, Fred Astaire, and Bob Fosse.

In 1991, Abdul embraced advertising and starred in a popular Diet Coke commercial in which she danced with a digital image of her idol, a young Gene Kelly.

The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), a movie that also features a song about the famous and fictitious double play combination, O ' Brien to Ryan to Goldberg.

* Christmas Holiday ( 1944 ) starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, based on the novel of the same name.

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** MGM's Technicolor musical film, An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, premieres in New York.

* August 23 – Gene Kelly, American actor ( d. 1996 )

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No matter whether it appeared above or below a main strip, the extra strip was known as the topper, such as The Squirrel Cage which ran along with Room and Board, both drawn by Gene Ahern.

In 1996, Flockhart appeared as the daughter of Dianne Wiest and Gene Hackman's characters in The Birdcage.

Performers with Native American parentage have occasionally appeared in American popular music, such as Robbie Robertson ( The Band ), Rita Coolidge, Wayne Newton, Gene Clark, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Blackfoot, Tori Amos, Redbone, and CocoRosie.

In 1997, Eastwood directed and starred in the political thriller Absolute Power, alongside Gene Hackman ( with whom he had appeared in Unforgiven ).

DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman's alleged son named Kid.

Later that year, she appeared in her first film since Grease starring in the musical Xanadu with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck.

During the early days of television in the 1950s Minnelli appeared as a child guest on Art Linkletter's show and in 1959 sang and danced with Gene Kelly on his first television special.

In 2001, she appeared in the comedy Heartbreakers playing the lead role of a con artist alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Gene Hackman and Anne Bancroft.

Directed by Sidney Olcott who also appeared in the film, actress and screenwriter Gene Gauntier wrote the script and portrayed the Virgin Mary.

Over the years new Eddies appeared on the bands albums including " Prickly Disco " ( Gene Eugene ), Picky Swelly, Newt York Newt York, Derry Air, and Judy Ism.

Radner met actor Gene Wilder on the set of the Sidney Poitier film Hanky Panky, when the two appeared together.

After Brazil, Pryce appeared in the historical thriller The Doctor and the Devils and then in the Gene Wilder-directed film Haunted Honeymoon.

In 1943, Grayson appeared in the film Thousands Cheer, ( originally titled Private Miss Jones ), along with Gene Kelly, Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Powell, June Allyson and others.

He also appeared with Gene Tierney, Ann Sheridan, Maureen O ' Hara, Nancy Carroll, Donna Reed, Gail Russell, Margaret Sullavan, Virginia Mayo, Bebe Daniels, Carole Lombard, and Joan Bennett.

Initially, the character of Saavik, who appeared in the second through fourth Star Trek films, was intended to be the traitor, but Gene Roddenberry objected to making a character loved by fans into a villain.

He appeared in two episodes of Gene Simmons Family Jewels.

From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared in 93 films and 91 episodes of The Gene Autry Show television series.

While these two polls are really an indication only of the popularity of series stars, Autry also appeared in the Top Ten Money Makers Poll of all films from 1940 to 1942, His Gene Autry Flying " A " Ranch Rodeo show debuted in 1940.

Created by writer Gene L. Coon, the character first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode " Metamorphosis ", in which he was played by Glenn Corbett.

She replaced the ailing Gene Tierney in Holiday for Lovers ( 1959 ), and next appeared in Pollyanna ( 1960 ), Bon Voyage!

In 1939, Gene Krupa and his Orchestra appeared in the Paramount movie Some Like It Hot, which starred Bob Hope and Shirley Ross, performing the songs " Blue Rhythm Fantasy " and " The Lady's in Love with You ".

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and growing up in nearby Westport, Martin began modeling at 17, and appeared in the original film version of The Poseidon Adventure ( opposite Gene Hackman ) at the age of 19.

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

The first dancer featured on film as a partner of both the stars Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, Hayworth appeared in a total of 61 films over 37 years.