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

* 1912 – Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor ( d. 1996 )

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.

Gene Kelly appeared as actor and dancer in the following musical films.

* Gene Kelly actor and dancer

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

* 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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Mascot also had just discovered Gene Autry and signed him to a contract as a singing cowboy star.

Angel was discovered by Kiss bass player Gene Simmons performing at a nightclub and was eventually signed to the same label as Kiss, Casablanca.

Gene Shepard ( Tim Robbins ) is a corrupt cop who cheats on his wife, Sherri ( Madeleine Stowe ), and seems oblivious to the fact that his wife long ago had discovered his secret — and just does not care.

This brought her to the attention of choreographer Robert Alton – who had also discovered Gene Kelly – and soon she joined the Freed Unit at MGM, where she became the resident MGM ballet dancer.

Record producer, label owner and one-time Australian pop star Gene Pierson ( aka Giancarlo Salvestrin ) and musician Roy Nicolson who created Beatle Barkers bared their teeth when they discovered their pet project had been stolen.

He came back to Paris in 1959, where he finally discovered the great chanson artists, and then rock artists such as Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly ( who he admired deeply ) or Elvis Presley.

She was discovered by Gene Reynolds, the director of Room 222, who saw her lip syncing in rehearsal and saw that she was funny.

Irving and Jack discovered a number of great songwriters, among them Sammy Fain, Harry Barris, Gene Austin, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy McHugh, and Dorothy Fields.

While a student at Caltech under astronomer Gene Shoemaker, Platt discovered two asteroids, one of which he named after his father ( 3237 Victorplatt ).

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

During the filming of The Left Hand of God ( 1955 ), he noticed his co-star Gene Tierney having a hard time remembering her lines and also behaving oddly.

This footage is in the film as a " video fax " that Claire sends her estranged lover Gene.

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

" She was again nominated for an Academy Award and critics such as Gene Ringgold described her Margo as her " all-time best performance ".

First person narrators are often unreliable narrators since a narrator might be impaired such as Benjy in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury ), lie ( as in The Quiet American by Graham Greene, or The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe ), or manipulate his or her own memories intentionally or not ( as in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, or in Ken Keasey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ).

When Williams escapes from the bumbling sheriff ( Gene Lockhart ) and practically falls into Hildy's lap, the lure of a big scoop proves too much for her.

He offered relative newcomers Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews little support, allowed theatrically trained Judith Anderson to play to the balcony instead of reining in her performance, and virtually ignored Webb, who had learned the director was unhappy with his casting.

Later, obnoxious cousin Albert ( Allyn Joslyn ) introduces the family to his fiancee, Martha ( Gene Tierney ) and her feuding parents, the Strables ( Eugene Pallette, Marjorie Main ).

Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, 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 audition at MGM.

She studied with Gene Frankel in Manhattan and considered him her acting coach.

Gene Wilder had this to say about her death:

In 1952 she co-starred as more of a leading role in 3 films: " Apache Country " ( Gene Autry, Pat Buttram ), " The Rough Tough West " ( Jock Mahoney, Smiley Burnette ) and her final film, Autry's " Blue Canadian Rockies ".

After assisting Gene Kelly in choreographing films, Haney won a Tony Award for her role in The Pajama Game.

She focused her career on choreography for Broadway shows: Flower Drum Song ( 1958, directed by Gene Kelly ), Bravo Giovanni ( 1962 ), She Loves Me ( 1963 ) and Funny Girl ( 1964 ).

James Blish's non-canon novels identify her as Bantu, as does Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Milla Jovovich began modeling when Gene Lemuel convinced Herb Ritts to shoot her for the cover of Lei magazine.

In 1958, when she was 13, producer Owen Bradley asked her to record a new song by Johnny Marks, who had had success writing Christmas tunes for country singers, most notably " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( Gene Autry ) and " A Holly, Jolly Christmas " ( Burl Ives ).

Legend has it that the real Crystals were not able to travel from New York to Los Angeles fast enough to suit the LA-based Spector, who wanted to quickly record writer Gene Pitney's " He's a Rebel " before Vikki Carr could release her version on Liberty Records.

She was also sued in Federal Court by Gene Ringgold, who asserts that the actress's autobiography contains material from an article he wrote about her for a magazine Screen Facts in 1965.

Gene Tierney dropped out due to her health problems.