Gene Kelly Articles

Pert, pretty, multi-talented, actress-singer-dancer-Hollywood collector Debbie Reynolds is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Day on Friday, August 18, as TCM continues its "Summer Under the Stars" series. TCM is presenting 13 Debbie Reynolds movies. [Debbie Reynolds Movie Schedule.] Fans of Gene Kelly's Singin' in the Rain (1952) will be able to watch the romantic comedy-musical for the 118th time. I'm not one of them; [...]

Biggest Oscar Snubs #9a: List of Non-Nominated Directors – From William A. Wellman to Joe Wright The directors listed in the previous post — and I could add several other names to the roster — are those whose films received multiple Oscar nods, including Best Picture, but they (the directors themselves) failed to be shortlisted. [Note: Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple and Christopher Nolan [...]

Bobby-soxer-turned-blue-haired-matron idol Frank Sinatra will have his "Summer Under the Stars" day on Friday, Aug. 28. Turner Classic Movies will show twelve of the actor-singer films, the best of which is On the Town, a zesty musical about three sailors and their three girls (four, if you include Alice Pearce) spending a day together in New York City. The three guys — Sinatra, Gene Kelly, [...]

Nina Foch, best remembered as an acting teacher and for her role as Gene Kelly's "sponsor" in the Oscar-winning MGM musical An American in Paris (1951), died of complications of long-term myelodysplasia, a blood disorder, on Friday, Dec. 5, at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Foch was 84. According to the Los Angeles Times obit, Foch became ill Thursday while teaching "Directing the [...]