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Gene Kelly @ 100

The everyman dancer astonishes again

Comments (0) By Melissa Anderson Wednesday, Jul 11 2012
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'Invitation to the Dance: Gene Kelly @ 100'
July 13 through 26
Walter Reade Theater

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During Hollywood's sporadic, often disastrous attempts to revive the glory years of tuners, Kelly was still called upon on occasion: to direct the elephantine 1969 adaptation of Hello, Dolly!—accurately assessing the movie's biggest liability, Walter Matthau, quoted in Hirschhorn, said of his co-star, "The trouble with Barbra [Streisand] is she became a star long before she became an actress"—or to class up the roller-boogie fantasia Xanadu (1980), his last feature-film appearance. (Kelly died in 1996 at age 83.) But the greatest use of Kelly's talents after MGM's halcyon era took place thousands of miles away from Southern California backlots in a port town in southwestern France. In Jacques Demy's transcendent American-musical homage The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), Kelly, still foxy in his mid fifties in a pink polo shirt and snug, pressed white trousers, appears to descend from heaven, believably stirring romantic yearning in Françoise Dorléac, an actress 30 years his junior. He still likes himself, and we love him for it.

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Napkin74
Napkin74

For some reason I find his amazing, iconic Singing in the Rain number moving. It touches a sentimental chord in me. Gene was a phenomonal athlete.

Dale Wittig
Dale Wittig

I believe you mean that the role Kelly played in Summer Stock was originally intended for Mickey Rooney (who played Andy Hardy along side Judy Garland in that series of films.) I'm surprised that you skip over Minnelli's masterpiece The Pirate. Is that not in this Lincoln Center Tribute? It should be. I'd say it was the high point of all of their careers, Kelly's, Minnelli's and Garland's (and Harry Stradling's to boot.)

 
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