Favorite Gene Kelly Movies

[JolieParee]

I am SOOO loving these photos! Thanks for posting them. GK is incredibly handsome - I never tire of looking at that face. Whenever somebody is going on and on about some current modern heartthrob I always want to say, hey, he's no Gene Kelly!

 

I love Donald too, but I've never seen a Francis movie. I know -- 50 lashes with a wet haystraw.

 

SITR is on next Sunday - YAAAY! I still don't have the DVD and don't even have it on tape. What is wrong with me. :-)

 

Jolie

[cinemalover]

SITR is a wonderful DVD to have in your collection. The current 2 disc special edition can be picked up at major retailers for under $10 if you look around. It's packed with info and extras.

[Cinemascope]

Well, Gene Kelly month is just around the corner, and I can't wait!

[JolieParee]

Yesss! Monday's the day. There's another thread started on GK - SOTM, with a list of the movies on Monday.

 

Got my VCR ready!

 

Jo

[johnm001]

Even though he would seem to be miscast, and the film is void of location settings, I still really like BLACK HAND. It does nothing to romanticize the mob, like so many films (i.e., THE GODFATHER) have done, and presents the story, with stark, engrossing realism. I would rank it as his most underrated film. Gene is very good in his role and, along with FOR ME AND MY GAL, it is a favorite of mine.

[Cinemascope]

GK always excelled in the musicals, but he was also quite good in a non-musical movies like Black Hand and The Devil Makes Three, a touching movie in which he starred alongside Pier Angeli.

[ayresorchids]

That is a good one--very hard-hitting. And if there's one thing particularly upsetting to add to the drama, it's GK with a broken leg...

[Cinemascope]

Well, sure, he couldn't dance in his next movie with a broken leg!

[Garth]

> Well, Gene Kelly month is just around the corner, and

> I can't wait!

 

When is Gene Kelly Month on TCM?

[JackBurley]

"When is Gene Kelly Month on TCM?"

 

Now (March).

[Cinemascope]

And what a great month it's going to be! :x

[Cinemascope]

Danny, you wouldn't happen to have any more GK photos?

[pandorainmay]

[nobr]Gather 'round, brothers & sisters, let me bear witness for you so that you might avoid a similar fall from cinematic grace as I experienced recently:[/nobr]

 

[nobr]The sight and sound of Gene Kelly in An American in Paris last night on TCM was never more welcome to me. This entire month has been a joy on a par with the SOTM tribute for Cary Grant last year. I particularly liked Christopher Walken's appreciation of Mr. Kelly--it was beautifully and carefully edited, and Walken's admiration seemed genuine and spontaneous.[/nobr]

 

[nobr]The main reason that Kelly's presence in An American in Paris gave me such solace was, of course, the sublime Gershwin score and Minnelli skill,but it was also seeing Gene at the height of his powers---an impossibly graceful athlete and dancer, who could make me believe he was just a regular guy who happened to express his thoughts and feelings in dance and song seamlessly.[/nobr]

 

[nobr]An American in Paris was an especially glad sight because, just before dawn yesterday, I was trying to awaken with my morning tea, when, what should assault my bloodshot eyes, but Xanadu* (1980). I'd never seen this final feature film of Gene Kelly's and despite the lightweight, doe-eyed presence of Olivia Newton-John, (as Terpsichore on a pass from Mt. Olympus) and the equally faun-like Michael Beck, (who looked like a BeeGee without any musicality), Gene is still the only compelling sight.[/nobr]

 

[nobr]Older, slower, and with little of the joyously exuberent lifeforce that characterized his work in his prime---he still had moments of bounce. If only the film had been worthy of him. Playing a big band era clarinetist coaxed out of retirement by Beck, he yearns for his earlier love (who, omigosh, looked just like a WWII Olivia! what a coincidence!), but even when they have Mr. Kelly dance a bit gingerly, and skate a bit, the music was some godawful pastiche of big band music, not the real thing, and it was always counterpointed with some of the worst disco crap to ever come down the pike. Don't get me wrong, I actually like alot of mindless '80s music, but this stuff--oy! And I won't get into the hideous spandex & lycra costumes that everyone--yep, even Gene, mercifully, very briefly--wore.[/nobr]

 

[nobr]The only saving graces of the film: the use of the Art Deco Pan-Pacific Auditorium (now gone, I'm told) in LA as the roller disco hq and Gene Kelly's still endearing smile.[/nobr]

 

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*The producers based the title on the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about the corruption of a lush kingdom, that was written as the Romantic poet began his descent into opium addiction. Maybe the filmmakers forgot to "just say no" to whatever drugs compelled the whopping bad taste on display here too.

[judy_fan]

Hello Gene Kelly fans

 

i was on the Warner Bros. website and i saw that Dubarry Was a Lady is coming to dvd on June 19

 

thought some of you would want to know

[Cinemascope]

It's gonna be awesome!!! B-)

[judy_fan]

Yeah hahaha u always know about everything coming out

[Cinemascope]

> Yeah hahaha u always know about everything coming

> out

 

But of course! Some of us have been waiting for years for these movies to be out on DVD

[judy_fan]

since you always seem to find things out in advance, be sure to post them

[livesofnine420]

I'm just now starting to see his movies. So far, Singin in the Rain is my absolute fave but its kinda tied with The Pirate tho. I've only just touched the tip of the iceberg I'm sure. Oh....so much Gene yet so little time....

[Cinemascope]

There's indeed a lot of great GK movies to discover, and you picked a very good month to watch some of his best work

[hlywdkjk]

moirafinnie6 -

 

One good photo deserves another. Loved yours. Hope you like this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle In Hollywood

[Cinemascope]

That is the sweetest GK photo, thanks Kyle! B-)