Remembering The Great American Dancer Gene Kelly

News Blaze ^ | 8/16/12 | Dr. Paul Kengor

[OneVike]

I excerpted the article in the way I did to give everyone an idea where the writer is going with this, but not so much as to give it all away, while still honoring the letter of the law of excerpting.

There is another actor that would one day wake up to the stench of the left. Not just for a day like these leftists did, but truly in his heart he saw the light. He would go on to become the greatest president of our lifetime, the one and only "Ronaldus Maximus".

[TomGuy]

I enjoyed many of those song-and-dance movies when I was young and we only got 3 network tv channels.

Gene Kelley’s Singing in the Rain is a classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmCpOKtN8ME

Kurt Browning performed an ice skating tribute which was also excellent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtd7xq7URM

[OneVike]

Just a heads up about an interesting article on Hollywood waking up when confronted with facts about their communist friends in the the late “40”s.

Too bad they don’t have such love for America today, that they may see the truth about those they follow now.

What’s the chances of another actor like Reagan, seeing the light and then becoming as great a patriot as he did?

Yea, I know. It will never happen again, because after God made Ronaldus Maximus, he broke the mold.

[nevergore]

Another great male dancer was Patrick Swayze....He and his wife had a true love of dance and like Gene Kelly, Patrick look masculine in his dance moves.....

[circlecity]

Watching Gene Kelly was like watching an olympic athelete perform. Unlike Astaire, Gene was a very acrobatic dancer and many of his routines reflected this. I remember one where its like he’s dancing on the girders of a skyscraper being built and it was incredibly cool and very acrobatic. I could watch that guy dance all day and I can’t think of anyone else I wouldn’t feel sheepish saying that about. Maybe Mr. Bojangles.

[colorado tanker]

Reagan and some of his friends headed off an attempted post-WWII takeover of the Screen Actors Guild by the communists.

[OneVike]

Sadly, their valiant struggle just delayed the inevitable by 35 years.

Today, Hollywood is ground zero for communists-R-us.

[Excellence]

Oh my goodness, I remember Kurt Browning! That was the most fantastic ice skating routine ever. Thanks for the memory.

[goat granny]

I never understood all the talk about Fred being the greatest dancer in movies....Gene Kelly had him beat by miles. Singing in the Rain is a classic, and Donald OConnor was excellent also...

[mojito]

Kelly's wife was a hardcore Stalinist. When HUAC got going, he and his wife spent a couple of years in Europe.

I still love watching him on the screen. He was one of the truly great talents of the golden age of Hollywood.

[Revolting cat!]

I thought he was dead.

[Robwin]

Just a footnote to this period. Stalinist Dalton Trumbo, of whose Communist affiliations there is no doubt, was brought in "out of the cold" by both Otto Preminger who hired him to write the screenplay for the execrable film Exodus, and by (even worse) Kirk Douglas to be screenwriter of the Communist themed Spartacus.

[snoopy 'n linus]

Gene and Fred together...now that’s entertainment ! !http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMKbGRCbsaw

[freedumb2003]

>> never understood all the talk about Fred being the greatest dancer in movies....Gene Kelly had him beat by miles. Singing in the Rain is a classic, and Donald OConnor was excellent also...<<

Gene Kelly was athletic and assertive.

Fred Astaire was elegant — he made it look so easy, which is why it was so hard.

In the few movies Gene and Fred were together it was a visceral thrill to see them ply their art.

And art it was. And now a lost art. When you see a few episodes of ‘Dancing with the Stars” you realize just how badly dancing has degraded. Today’s dancers are simply dancing dogs — poodles with tutus.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Gene Kelly had him beat by miles.***

Snort: I like Gene Kelly but he NEVER danced on the ceiling!;-D

[petitfour]

Thanks for the skating video link!

[DAC21]

Damn that glass of wine, thought for sure it said Grace Kelly...yum. One of my favorite movies that was made well before I was even born was Mogambo (other than what appeared to be needless killing of the Wildlife) I mean Eva Gardner and Grace Kelly, how could you go wrong!

[Krankor]

I heard he was kind of a jerk in real life. He made Debbie Reynolds cry.

[Little Bill]

You can see the differences in style.

[freepertoo]

OH, I’m so glad to see this! I am a Gene Kelly FANATIC. Not only was he supernaturally gifted (!), he was really very, very, very SEXY!