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Gene Kelly

Tuesday, April 24th, 1990
Singin' in the Rain, 1952, MGM

GENE KELLY was a great dancer because his dancing seemed to be an overflow of his superb vitality — a natural extension of his person­ality. In all his movies, the tran­si­tions to dance are incredibly smooth, because even when he’s not dancing he’s thinking about dancing – his athletic body is flexed and limber– and he’s ready to roll, even on an empty set with 500,000 kilo­watts of electric light mimicking stardust and a giant fan creating the sensation of a moon­light breeze.

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