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Filmmaker · United States

Gene Kelly

Died in 1996

Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh in 1912, the son of a phonograph salesman. His mother enrolled him in dance classes that he disliked, and the boys in the neighbourhood mocked him; he played baseball, earned a degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1933, then opened a dance school with his family. A dancer, actor, choreographer and director, he brought to American cinema an athletic style of dance, in everyday clothes and in ordinary settings. He died in Beverly Hills in 1996.

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