Gene Kelly

His most notable moments on film include:. Lithgow resides in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He was the first American to choreograph and stage a ballet in the Paris Opera. He is currently starring on Broadway with Eileen Atkins in the new play, Retreat from Moscow.. Kelly married three times:. Hunsecker in the musical Sweet Smell of Success, based on the film. He also received the Life Achievement Award from American Film Institute in 1985. He received a Tony award for his performance as J.J.

Kelly was awarded a special Academy Award “in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film” in 1951 and reawarded in 1984's Academy Awards due to a fire which burned down his home in the previous year. John Lithgow (born October 19, 1945 in Rochester, New York) is an actor best known for starring in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, about aliens who assume human form and examine humans in small-town Ohio. Kelly was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1960. 1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues. An energetic and athletic performer, he was known for doing his own stunts. 1976 Obsession. Eugene Curran Kelly (born August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died February 2, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California after suffering two strokes at the age of 83), was best known as an American dancer in films, but was also an actor, singer, director and choreographer. 1977 Secret Service.

"If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando." -- Gene Kelly. 1978 The Big Fix. Dancing on roller skates in An American in Paris. 1979 All That Jazz | Rich Kids. Dancing with a mop, a squeaky floorboard and a newspaper in Summer Stock. 1980 Big Blonde | Mom, the Wolfman and Me | The Oldest Living Graduate. Singing and dancing in the rain in a much-parodied scene from the film Singin' in the Rain. 1981 Blow Out.

Patricia Ward (1990–1996). 1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can. Jeanne Coyne (1960–1973) (two children, Bridget and Tim). 1982 Not in Front of the Children | The World According to Garp. Betsy Blair (1940–1957) (one child, Kerry). 1983 Terms of Endearment | The Day After | Twilight Zone: The Movie. Xanadu (1980) - final film in which Kelly danced. 1984 Footloose.

This was the second and last time Kelly and Astaire danced together on film. 1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. That's Entertainment Part II (1976) - also directed. 1984 2010: Odyssey Two | The Glitter Dome. That's Entertainment! (1974). 1985 Santa Claus. Hello, Dolly (1969) - Directorial and choreography credits. 1986 Mesmerized | The Manhattan Project | Resting Place.

The Young Girls Of Rochefort, (1967). 1987 Harry and the Hendersons | Baby Girl Scott. What a Way to Go! (1964). 1988 Distant Thunder. Inherit the Wind (1960). 1989 Traveling Man | Out Cold. Les Girls (1957) - Kelly's final film at MGM Studio. 1990 Memphis Belle | Ivory Hunters.

Invitation to the Dance (1956). Story. Brigadoon (1954). 1991 The Boys | L.A. Singin' in the Rain (1952). 1991 At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Ricochet. An American in Paris (1951) - (Academy Award, special achievement, choreography). 1992 Raising Cain.