On the short list of great cinema dancers, Gene Kelly led a multi-faceted career that included acting, directing, and...
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2002
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In 1974, MGM Studios released its first compilation of musical highlights from 45 years of Hollywood extravaganzas. Entitled...
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Host
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1994
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1991
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This salute to the famous comedy team of the Marx Brothers is narrated by actor/director Gene Kelly. Shown are clips from...
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1990
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1989
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1988
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Executive Producer, Host
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1985
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This documentary takes the viewer on a tour of the series of museums that comprise the Smithsonian Institute. Located in...
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1985
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In this drama, a woman struggles to rise to the top of the fashion industry, but as she does, her past business sins come...
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1985
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The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3...
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1985
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The Bolshoi Ballet mounted and performs this production of Petr Ilych Tchaikovsky's 1895 Swan Lake, starring Natalia...
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1984
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In this film, the mysterious Kira (Olivia Newton-John) appears to assist and inspire a young artist, Sonny Malone...
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Danny McGuire
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1980
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As co-hosted by Gene Kelly and Kathryn Crosby (the wife of Bing Crosby), this exclusive video compilation presents priceless...
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Host
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1979
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Will Atkins
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1977
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This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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Director, Host
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1976
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It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off...
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Narrator
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1974
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A music performance video, with Frank Sinatra singing "You Will Be My Music," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Street of Dreams,"...
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1973
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Adapted by Jay Presson Allen from the French farce by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, Forty Carats is a standard-issue...
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Billy Boylan
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1973
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Director, Producer
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1970
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During the 1970s and 1980s, Francis Albert Sinatra toplined a series of popular concert films, mounted, performed and filmed...
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1970
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This BBC video production presents the Wells Cathedral Choir in a Christmas concert. The gala evening is hosted by...
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1969
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Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her...
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Director
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1969
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Director
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1967
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Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success...
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Andy Miller--sung by Donald Burke
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1967
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Director
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1967
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This lavishly produced, big-budget comedy (it cost $20 million in 1964 dollars) stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow who...
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Choreography, Jerry Benson
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1964
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Father O'Malley
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1962
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Jackie Gleason plays Gigot, a lumbering but lovable mute Parisian derelict. Shunned by the "respectable" people around him,...
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Director
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1962
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1961
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E.K. Hornbeck
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1960
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Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest...
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1960
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A veritable honor roll of famed western heroes and villains appears in the fanciful oater Badman's Country. It all begins...
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Art Director
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1958
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Though very tame by contemporary standards, Tunnel of Love was considered the last word in racy comedy back in 1958. Adapted...
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Director
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1958
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Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to...
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Noel Airman
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1958
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Director, Producer, Mike Andrews
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1957
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Originally telecast live and in color, this NBC special would be especially valuable to see again, especially if one is a...
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MC
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1957
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Barry Nichols
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1957
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MGM's Invitation to the Dance was the fruition of Gene Kelly's long-standing dream to create a plotless "concert" feature....
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Choreography, Director, Screenwriter, The Clown
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1956
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Choreography, Director, Ted Riley
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1955
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1954
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Crest of the Wave is the original British title of Seagulls over Sorrento, filmed at MGM's Elstree facilities in 1953 and...
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Lt. Bradville
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1954
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Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's...
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Choreography, Tommy Albright
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1954
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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Director, Don Lockwood
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1952
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Gene Kelly tackles a rare non-singing or dancing role in this post-war drama. Kelly plays Capt. Jeff Eliot, whose life was...
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Captain Jeff Eliot
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1952
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Though completed in 1950, Love Is Better Than Ever was held back from release until 1952, due in great part to the "political...
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1952
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Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving...
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Choreography, Jerry Mulligan
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1951
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Gene Kelly as an Italian-American attorney? Once you get past this, the rest of Black Hand ought to go down easy. This expose...
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Johnny Columbo
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1950
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Summer Stock represented Judy Garland's swan song at MGM. Garland plays the owner of a New England farm which entrepreneur...
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Choreography, Joe D. Ross
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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Icarus Xenophon
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1950
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Choreography, Director, Gabey
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1949
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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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Choreography, Screen Story, Eddie O'Brien
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1949
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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D'Artagnan
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1948
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Himself
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1948
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Choreography, Serafin
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1948
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Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget...
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Choreography, Leo Gogarty
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1947
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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Gene Kelly
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1946
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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Choreography, Joseph Brady
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1945
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In this documentary film, Submarine Warfare, host Gene Kelly guides the viewer through life on board a World War II fighting...
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1945
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Choreography, Danny McGuire
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1944
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Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story...
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Robert Monette
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1944
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The time is World War II. A group of disillusioned French soldiers are approached by Nazi troops and promised safe passage to...
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Victor La Biche
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1943
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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Alec Howe/Black Arrow
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1943
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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Vito S. Alesandro
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1943
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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Eddie Marsh
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1943
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For Me and My Gal, a leisurely period musical, represents the first on-screen dancing of MGM's new star Gene Kelly....
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Choreography, Harry Palmer
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1942
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This is the first of three volumes celebrating Hollywood moviemaking. This tape features rare archival footage from the...
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