Warner Archive’s recently released Blu-ray of 1948’s The Three Musketeers. Gene Kelly as Dartagnan hones the derring do he began in The Pirate, and would caricature as Philippe in the royal rascal in Singing In The Rain.
Warner Archive’s recently released Blu-ray of 1948’s The Three Musketeers. Gene Kelly as Dartagnan hones the derring do he began in The Pirate, and would caricature as Philippe in the royal rascal in Singing In The Rain.
Gene Kelly’s dancing is how normal people would move if normal people had an ideal combination of style, grace, strength, and self-assurance. His Singin In The Rain is him alone on a movie set, and one awash with rain at that. Nowhere to hide, and no-one else to detract the focus from him alone. And …
A couple of years ago I posted about Gene Kelly dancing on roller skates in the movie It’s Always Fair Weather. I finally got to see the movie today. After an exuberant opening, the storyline is somewhat downbeat for the majority of the movie, dealing with the experiences of three returned servicemen reuniting for the …
If you didn’t know better you might think the sight of Gene Kelly on rollerskates in Xanadu was just a sad and desperate cashing in on a fad like roller-disco. But Kelly danced in roller skates decades before in the movie It’s Always Fair Weather. It’s not one of his better known performances. But it …
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