Author : Clive Hirschhorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Dancers
ISBN : OCLC:1288388536
Gene Kelly
Clive Hirschhorn
Gene Kelly
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Gene Kelly
Alvin Yudkoff
Author : Alvin Yudkoff
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0823088197
Gene Kelly by Alvin Yudkoff Pdf
Traces the career and personal life of the stage and film dancer, choreographer, actor, and director.
Gene Kelly
Earl J. Hess,Pratibha A. Dabholkar
Author : Earl J. Hess,Pratibha A. Dabholkar
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780700630172
Gene Kelly by Earl J. Hess,Pratibha A. Dabholkar Pdf
Whether as a curiosity or a beloved idol, Gene Kelly (1912–1996) lives on in our cultural memory as a fantastic dancer in MGM musicals, especially Singin’ in the Rain. But dancing, however extraordinary, was only one of his many gifts. This book, for the first time, offers a full picture of Gene Kelly as the Renaissance man he actually was—dancer, yes, but also choreographer, actor, clown, singer, director, teacher, and mentor. Kelly was star of radio and television as well as film, avant-garde as artist and auteur but also ahead of the curve in opening the world of dance to differences of race, ethnicity, and gender. Gene Kelly: The Making of a Creative Legend takes us from Kelly’s youth in Depression-era Pittsburgh through his years on Broadway and ascendance to stardom in Hollywood. Authors Hess and Dabholkar pay particular attention to his work with the US Navy, solo directing, and lesser-known but considerable accomplishments in television, radio, and on the stage in later years. The book gives us a rare inside look at Kelly’s relationships with dancing partners and peers from Leslie Caron, Vera-Ellen, and Cyd Charisse to Fred Astaire, and at his directorial collaboration with Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli; and at his solo directing. The authors show us significant but little-examined facets of Kelly’s character and career, such as the political convictions that got him graylisted in Hollywood; his passion for creating cine-dance and serving as an ambassador of dance in America; and his forging of links between dance, civil rights, and the “common man.” Steeped in research and replete with photographs, this career biography uniquely encompasses all phases of Gene Kelly’s life and work—and finally gives us a full portrait of this central figure in the history of the film musical during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Gene Kelly
Jeanine Basinger
Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Jove Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061387802
Gene Kelly by Jeanine Basinger Pdf
He's Got Rhythm
Cynthia Brideson,Sara Brideson
Author : Cynthia Brideson,Sara Brideson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813169348
He's Got Rhythm by Cynthia Brideson,Sara Brideson Pdf
He sang and danced in the rain, proclaimed New York to be a wonderful town, and convinced a group of Parisian children that they had rhythm. One of the most influential and respected entertainers of Hollywood's golden age, Gene Kelly revolutionized film musicals with his innovative and timeless choreography. A would-be baseball player and one-time law student, Kelly captured the nation's imagination in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949), An American in Paris (1951), and Singin' in the Rain (1952). In the first comprehensive biography written since the legendary star's death, authors Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson disclose new details of Kelly's complex life. Not only do they examine his contributions to the world of entertainment in depth, but they also consider his political activities -- including his opposition to the Hollywood blacklist. The authors even confront Kelly's darker side and explore his notorious competitive streak, his tendency to be a taskmaster on set, and his multiple marriages. Drawing on previously untapped articles and interviews with Kelly's wives, friends, and colleagues, Brideson and Brideson illuminate new and unexpected aspects of the actor's life and work. He's Got Rhythm is a balanced and compelling view of one of the screen's enduring legends.
The Memory of All that
Betsy Blair
Author : Betsy Blair
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056665824
The Memory of All that by Betsy Blair Pdf
The Academy Award-nominated actress and wife of Gene Kelly traces her life from her experiences as a teenage dancer in the 1930s, to a child bride of a Hollywood star, to an accomplished actress in Europe.
Gene Kelly
Sheridan Morley,Ruth Leon
Author : Sheridan Morley,Ruth Leon
Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019500003
Gene Kelly by Sheridan Morley,Ruth Leon Pdf
Featuring more than 100 photographs & an informed text, this tribute looks back at the remarkable & influential career of one of cinema's most popular stars.
Charles Walters
Brent Phillips
Author : Brent Phillips
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813147239
Charles Walters by Brent Phillips Pdf
From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen ( The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949) to Judy Garland's timeless, tuxedo-clad performance of "Get Happy" ( Summer Stock, 1950), Charles Walters staged the iconic musical sequences of Hollywood's golden age. During his career, this Academy Award--nominated director and choreographer showcased the talents of stars such as Gene Kelly, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, and Frank Sinatra. However, despite his many critical and commercial triumphs, Walters's name often goes unrecognized today. In the first full-length biography of Walters, Brent Phillips chronicles the artist's career, from his days as a featured Broadway performer and protégé of theater legend Robert Alton to his successes at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He takes readers behind the scenes of many of the studio's most beloved musicals, including Easter Parade (1948), Lili (1953), High Society (1956), and T he Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). In addition, Phillips recounts Walters's associations with Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, and Gloria Swanson, examines the director's uncredited work on several films, including the blockbuster Gigi (1958), and discusses his contributions to musical theater and American popular culture. This revealing book also considers Walters's personal life and explores how he navigated the industry as an openly gay man. Drawing on unpublished oral histories, correspondence, and new interviews, this biography offers an entertaining and important new look at an exciting era in Hollywood history.
The Material Gene
Kelly E. Happe
Author : Kelly E. Happe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814790694
The Material Gene by Kelly E. Happe Pdf
Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award Finalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year Award In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion base pairs of DNA. Since then, interest in the hereditary basis of disease has increased considerably. In The Material Gene, Kelly E. Happe considers the broad implications of this development by treating “heredity” as both a scientific and political concept. Beginning with the argument that eugenics was an ideological project that recast the problems of industrialization as pathologies of gender, race, and class, the book traces the legacy of this ideology in contemporary practices of genomics. Delving into the discrete and often obscure epistemologies and discursive practices of genomic scientists, Happe maps the ways in which the hereditarian body, one that is also normatively gendered and racialized, is the new site whereby economic injustice, environmental pollution, racism, and sexism are implicitly reinterpreted as pathologies of genes and by extension, the bodies they inhabit. Comparing genomic approaches to medicine and public health with discourses of epidemiology, social movements, and humanistic theories of the body and society, The Material Gene reworks our common assumption of what might count as effective, just, and socially transformative notions of health and disease.
Singin' in the Rain
Earl J. Hess,Pratibha A. Dabholkar
Author : Earl J. Hess,Pratibha A. Dabholkar
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780700617579
Singin' in the Rain by Earl J. Hess,Pratibha A. Dabholkar Pdf
There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years. . . . It is a transcendent experience, and no one who loves movies can afford to miss it.—Roger Ebert America's most popular film critic is hardly alone in singing the praises of Singin' in the Rain. This quintessential American film-made in Hollywood's Golden Age, showcasing the genius of Gene Kelly, and featuring what Ebert calls "the most joyous musical sequence ever filmed"-has inspired love and admiration from fellow critics, film scholars, and movie buffs worldwide for more than half a century. Indeed, its reputation continues to grow: the American Film Institute now ranks it number 1 on its list of the Greatest Movie Musicals of All Time and number 5 on its list of the Greatest American Films of All Time. Echoing the enthusiasm of the film's most devoted fans, Earl Hess and Pratibha Dabholkar embrace and illuminate both the film and its reputation. Combining lucid prose with meticulous scholarship, they provide for the first time the complete inside story of how this classic movie was made, marketed, and received. They re-create the actual movie-making experience, on the set and behind the scenes, and chronicle every step in production from original concept through casting, scripting, rehearsals, filming, scoring, and editing. They then trace its distribution, critical reception, and enduring reputation. The book is brimming with human interest, bursting with anecdotes and quotes by and about the film's stars and makers. Here are Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor at the top of their form, along with Debbie Reynolds and Cyd Charisse in their breakthrough roles. Here, too, are fascinating tidbits-about censorship troubles, continuity flaws, stunt doubles for Kelly, voice doubles for cast members, the dubbing of taps, and genealogy of all the songs. Hess and Dabholkar also provide in-depth analyses of each of the major song-and-dance performances, including details of everything from the dynamics of "Gotta Dance!" to the physical challenges of the remarkable title number. Based on exhaustive research in oral histories, studio production records, letters, memoirs, and interviews, their book is factually impeccable, compulsively readable, and indispensable for anyone who loves movies at their absolute best.
Larger Than Life
R. Barton Palmer
Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813547664
Larger Than Life by R. Barton Palmer Pdf
A Volume in the Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series, edited by Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance --Book Jacket.
The Hollywood Musical
Jane Feuer
Author : Jane Feuer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253207681
The Hollywood Musical by Jane Feuer Pdf
... both fresh and informed, as well as a pleasure to read. --Film Quarterly Since 1982, when this book first appeared, the Hollywood musical has undergone a rebirth, with the rise of teen musicals such as Dirty Dancing and Flashdance. In a chapter written especially for this second edition of her well-known study, Jane Feuer shows how this new development in the genre relates to important changes in the cinema audience itself. It is the text for the study of Hollywood musicals.
Pal Joey
John O'Hara
Author : John O'Hara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : OCLC:24332752
Pal Joey by John O'Hara Pdf
Gene Kelly
Alvin Yudkoff
Author : Alvin Yudkoff
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048849270
Gene Kelly by Alvin Yudkoff Pdf
In this candid biography, the beloved dancer, choreographer, actor, and director is depicted for the first time not just as a genius and star, but as the complex and difficult man his family, intimates, and colleagues knew. 16 illustrations.
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Peter Wollen
Author : Peter Wollen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253181410
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen Pdf
"Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." --Cinema "... a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry--from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists--in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." --Times Literary Supplement