Gene Kelly : The Making of a Creative Legend
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| Title: | Gene Kelly : The Making of a Creative Legend |
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| Description: | Whether as a curiosity or a beloved idol, Gene Kelly (1912–1996) lives on in our cultural memory as a fantastic dancer in M-G-M musicals, especially Singin'in the Rain. But dancing, however extraordinary, was only one of his many gifts. This book, for the first time, offers a full picture of Gene Kelly as the Renaissance man he actually was—dancer, yes, but also choreographer, actor, clown, singer, director, teacher, and mentor. Kelly was a star of radio and television as well as film, an avant-garde as artist and auteur but also ahead of the curve in opening the world of dance to differences of race, ethnicity, and gender.Gene Kelly: The Making of a Creative Legend takes us from Kelly's youth in Depression-era Pittsburgh through his years on Broadway and ascendance to stardom in Hollywood. Authors Hess and Dabholkar pay particular attention to his work with the US Navy and lesser-known but considerable accomplishments in television, radio, and on the stage in later years. The book gives us a rare inside look at Kelly's relationships with dancing partners and peers from Leslie Caron, Vera-Ellen, and Cyd Charisse to Fred Astaire, and at his directorial collaboration with Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli; and at his solo directing. The authors show us significant but little-examined facets of Kelly's character and career, such as the political convictions that got him graylisted in Hollywood; his passion for creating cine-dance and serving as an ambassador of dance in America; and his forging of links between dance, civil rights, and the “common man.”Steeped in research and replete with photographs, this career biography uniquely encompasses all phases of Gene Kelly's life and work—and finally gives us a full portrait of this central figure in the history of the film musical during Hollywood's Golden Age. |
| Authors: | Earl Hess, Pratibha A. Dabholkar |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography, Dancers--United States--Biography |
| Categories: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Broadway & Musicals |
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