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.

Kelly DeVries noted that while Douglas implied that Harthacnut was poisoned, he did not further explore the notion, never mentioning potential murderers or their motivation.

Two days later the go-ahead was given to Lockheed to start development and the Skunk Works was born, with Kelly Johnson at the helm .< p > The formal contract for the XP-80 did not arrive at Lockheed until October 16, 1943 ; some four months after work had already begun.

Kelly did perform stunts too — one of his most famous acts was trying to crack a peanut with a sledgehammer — but as a tramp, he also appealed to the sympathy of his audience.

Kelly's son, Emmett Kelly, Jr., did a similar " Weary Willie " character ; the two were estranged for many years as a result.

) Some South American editions did not feature the Kelly photographs in the gatefold, instead including uncredited performance photographs of the band from circa 1964-65 ( the Beatles are clean-shaven and wearing matching suits in the photos, as Brian Epstein insisted they do in performance during this period ).

They wrote the screenplays for Good News and The Barkleys of Broadway ( which reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ), and then adapted On the Town for Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, scrapping most of Bernstein's music at the request of Arthur Freed, who did not care for the Bernstein score.

O ' Kelly did not refer any Bills to the Supreme Court under Article 26 of the Constitution of Ireland.

Warner Brothers also dressed Robert Colbert, a Garner look-alike, in Bret Maverick's outfit and called the character Brent, but Brent Maverick did not catch on with viewers and Colbert made only two episodes toward the end of the season, leaving the rest of the series run to Kelly ( alternating with reruns of episodes with Garner ).

Although overshadowed by the growth of rock music the blues did not disappear in Britain, with American bluesmen like John Lee Hooker, Eddie Taylor, and Freddie King continuing to be well received in the UK and an active home scene led by figures including Dave Kelly and his sister Jo Ann Kelly, who helped keep the acoustic blues alive on the British folk circuit.

During the 1941 animators strike, Kelly did not picket the studio, as has often been reported, but took a leave of absence — pleading " family illness "— to avoid choosing sides.

In 1958 Morey appeared in the low-budget film Machine-Gun Kelly with Charles Bronson and did a notable dramatic turn in the 1960 noir classic Murder, Inc. as Catskill nightclub owner Walter Sage, the first victim ( according to the film ) of the newly minted Murder, Incorporated.

In 2011, she did a remix with Kelly Rowland called " Motivation " featuring Lil Wayne.

Walt Kelly of Pogo fame did the cover art for many issues between # 34 and # 118 and provided interior art for issues # 34-41 and 43.

At its opening preview to the press, the film, which starred Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, did badly.

* Hutton was " satisfied that Dr Kelly did not say to Mr Gilligan " certain dramatic statements about the 45 minute claim, which Gilligan had reported as direct quotations.

* Hutton was " satisfied that Dr Kelly did not say to Mr Gilligan " certain dramatic statements which Gilligan had reported as quotations.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the U. S. Congress used legislation ( such as the Kelly Act and the McNary-Watres Act ), and the U. S. Postal Service under Walter Folger Brown used air mail contract regulations, as tools to foster private-sector aviation companies ( manufacturers, airlines, and conglomerates thereof ) in order to encourage the development of a civil aviation system that would provide passenger airline service and cargo transport by air as widespread facets of American life, on a profitable basis — an ambitious notion at the time for a nationwide infrastructure that mostly did not yet exist.

As it did with Kelly and his company.

And Kelly didn't care if you did Aida, or Rigoletto, or Carmen -- it just had to be the best Aida, and Rigoletto, and Carmen.

Kelly was insured for this damage but did not claim on that insurance after being advised by the fees office that a reasonable amount could be claimed under the allowances system.

The 154-page paperback was illustrated with cartoons by Kelly Freas who also did the front cover.

The cast, while primarily male, did include occasional female characters as well, including network executive Kelly Cook ( Stephanie Beard ) and Anne-Marie Humphrey ( Jennifer Irwin ), Dalton's wife.

Though Nashville quarterback Andy Kelly would soon connect with Jeff Russell to pull within 15-7, Predators quarterback Connell Maynor answered with two more touchdown passes of his own, putting Orlando ahead 29-7 with 10 minutes to play in the first half.

Capp is often associated with two other giants of the medium: Milton Caniff ( Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ) and Walt Kelly ( Pogo ).

" Lazarus went on to cite Capp as one of the " four essentials " in the field of newspaper cartoonists, along with Walt Kelly, Charles Schulz and Milton Caniff.

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

* Games Programming for the Absolute Beginner with BlitzMax by Sloan Kelly, ISBN 0-9553771-0-2

*" Casey at the Bat " Web site with biographical details on Thayer, Hopper, Mike " King " Kelly and chronology of the poem's publication.

Finn and Hester performed " Not the Girl You Think You Are " with Largest Living Things, before being joined by Seymour for " Sister Madly " and a version of Paul Kelly's " Leaps and Bounds ", which also featured Kelly on vocals.

Ure and his partner Lawrence " Pirate " Kelly were quite profitable at their smuggling business and played hide-and-seek with the United States Customs Department for years.

* Interview with B. Kelly, in American Film ( Los Angeles ) March 1988

Tammany Hall looked with alarm upon Kelly ’ s entrance into the campaign and tried to persuade him to withdraw his candidacy and throw his support behind Moran.

At the age of eight, Kelly was enrolled by his mother in dance classes, along with his elder brother James.

They both rebelled, and, according to Kelly: " We didn't like it much and were continually involved in fistfights with the neighborhood boys who called us sissies ... I didn't dance again until I was fifteen.

After a fruitless search, Kelly returned to Pittsburgh, to his first position as a choreographer with the Charles Gaynor musical revue Hold Your Hats at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in April, 1938.

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

In Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ) – which was produced in 1944 but not released until 1946 – Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire – for whom he had the greatest admiration – in the famous " The Babbitt and the Bromide " challenge dance routine.

Behrman's play The Pirate, with songs by Cole Porter, in which Kelly plays the eponymous swashbuckler.

There followed Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), his second film with Sinatra, where Kelly paid tribute to his Irish heritage in The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day routine.

It was this musical film which persuaded Arthur Freed to allow Kelly to make On the Town, where he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time, creating a breakthrough in the musical film genre which has been described as " the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood.

" Together, they opened up the musical form, taking the film musical out of the studio and into real locations, with Donen taking responsibility for the staging and Kelly handling the choreography.

There followed Summer Stock ( 1950 ) – Judy Garland's last musical film for MGM – in which Kelly performed the celebrated " You, You Wonderful You " solo routine with a newspaper and a squeaky floorboard.

An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and, in the same year, Kelly was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to film musicals and the art of choreography.

In December 1951 he signed a contract with MGM which sent him to Europe for nineteen months so that Kelly could use MGM funds frozen in Europe to make three pictures while personally benefiting from tax exemptions.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather ( 1956 ) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to " I Like Myself ", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope.