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“I’d say Fred and Gene were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on the screen. Each has a distinctive style. Each is a joy to work with, but it’s like comparing apples and oranges. They’re both delicious.” –Cyd Charisse

↳ THEN I’LL BE VERY GLAD TO BE A SONG AND DANCE MAN.
                                                      —GENE KELLY

this is so dumb please forgive me

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Gene Kelly + a precious cinnamon roll (requested by passionatedancing)

“In Singin’ in the Rain, Donen and Kelly did a kaleidoscopic sequence to make fun of the Bubsy Berkeley numbers, which they hated.”

Gene as pretty things (requested by fredricmarching)

I was complaining about the hours and one of our producers said, “You should ask Debbie Reynolds about her hours on Singin’ In The Rain”, so I did. It was so horrifying what women had to go through to make that movie. It was her first big break and she was working with an icon and they were dancing and singing. She said they worked 20 hours a day and she would get a few hours sleep on her sofa in the dressing room and then go back to work. It was so much that I thought she was exaggerating. Then she told me how she had to dance with bleeding feet at one point. Gene Kelly wanted to stop because Debbie’s feet were bleeding all over the scene and she was like, “No, no I’m fine. I can keep going”. So then I stopped complaining about my hours.
—Katherine Heigl on complaining about her hours in ‘One For The Money’ (2012)

Gene Kelly + tilted hats