Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

Stanley Donen was born in 1924 in Columbia, South Carolina, into a Jewish family, and was harassed there by antisemitic schoolmates. After seeing Fred Astaire on screen at the age of nine, he took dance lessons and made his Broadway debut at sixteen in a musical where he met Gene Kelly, born in Pittsburgh in 1912. Together they co-directed three films. Donen then produced his own films, partly from London, and died in New York in 2019; Kelly had died in Beverly Hills in 1996.

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• CinemaSingin' in the RainStanley Donen and Gene Kelly · 1952Cinema