“That’s what you do up there … you dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams! I know … if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rain storm … then I’ll be very glad to be a song and dance man, and won’t worry anymore that the Pittsburgh Pirates lost a helluva shortstop!”
Remembering Gene Kelly on his 105th birthday 🌹
A tribute to a great dancer, actor, director, producer and choreographer 🌟
Born on August 23, 1912 as Eugene Curran Kelly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died on February 2, 1996 in Beverly Hills/L.A., California
“I took it as it came, and it happened to be very nice.”
I picked ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ to pay tribute to Gene, because it will be my all-time favorite movie, and I love him so much in this masterpiece!!! Besides, it was the first time I ‘met’ this amazingly talented man … and my “Invitation to the Dance”!
Thank you Gene … for all the memorable, magical dancing you put on the screen or stage and for being such an inspiration! You will always brighten up my day! Love you ❤!
May the heavenly stage be set for your dance among the stars tonight … I know, it will be fantastic! 🌟
“I learned long ago that there is no shortcut to success. You have to work hard for what you get. And it must be planned work, based on a firm foundation of some natural talent or desire. That’s where I got lucky. I was born with a hankering to dance.”
“In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man’s dance, they were all so nicely clothed, gowned, coiffured. That’s why I decided to wear white socks, loafers, T-shirts, and blue jeans. I had a sociopolitical context in front of me: I was a child of the Depression who danced in a way that would represent the common man.“
“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn’t catch on right away. But I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.”
“DANCERS ARE THE ATHLETES OF GOD”
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