Still Abit underrated because of Fred Astaire legend

I do too

That's pretty dressy by todays standards. :-)

Old age must come very hard to people who have lived magical lives.

Eugene Kelly Life: Born: August 23, 1912. Died: February 2, 1996.

@Durins Bane You make a very interesting observation.

And the way he yelled WHAT!? 😁😂😂🤣

Yes he was! I love watching his movies 😘

@Flenif2247 huuuuuuuuh

I Love Gene Kelly

I Love His Dancing

I Love Fred Astaire's Dancing Too

And Danny Kaye's Dancing

I was wondering why she seemed even more infatuated with him than the others...

That's Jeanne Coyne and she will marry Gene ten years later.

Wow I never knew that! I saw this dance many times!😱

Thank you for sharing that little nostalgic fact It was nice to learn that his own wife was able to be on set with him. 😊

In fact Jeanne was one of Gene's pupils when he taught dance in his own school of dance in Pittsburgh, she was a kid and he, a young man. Then, he left Pittsburgh and his school to Broadway then to Hollywood. Jeanne joined him and she became his assistant. She married Gene's collaborator Stanley Donen but as told Gene's then wife, Betsy Blair, it was a little "incestuous" because Jeanne was in love with Gene, Stanley had a crush on Betsy... So at the end, Jeanne and Stanley divorced, Betsy and Gene divorced, and Jeanne and Gene married...

A lot of Judy Garland's friends were pulled into this production to help her cope with the stress. She was going through a very rough time and everyone, especially Gene and Phil, wanted things to go as smoothly as possible for her.

Plus Phil Silvers and Gene Kelly used the strength of their friendship with Judy Garland to support her throughout this movie at a very very tough time in her life. I believe this was her last movie with MGM. Getting by with the help of your friends!

Judy Garland is great in Summer Stock as well

Progressive? You mean communist? Actually he was just another dumb actor (useful idiot as communist's call them), who was suckered into the movement. He was for unions in showbiz, but was destroyed by the leftist cult for having a heart.

@@matriximaster bro, you need to chill. Artist and art are two different things. I know communist is bad but he is actor who is showing his art.

There wouldn't have been any. Dude could do that all in one take..

I kinda favor 'Heavenly Music'. And Judy's 'Friendly Star'. But this is a great one.

I was lucky to meet Mr. Carpenter when he came to speak at a special screening of 'Two Weeks with Love' in 1990. A very nice man. Wish I could have seen him as Cornelius Hackl. R.I.P., Carleton.

I believe that is his real wife

@@HitchProductionz1837 I think the one with the white shirt to the right of him was actually his wife

I too find this a good question😂

She's Nita Beiber, a dancer and actress. I think most of her part ended up on the cutting room floor because she's in the opening credits as "Sarah", but we never hear her speak

It's really hard to care. He's gorgeous.

It's coming from Warner Archive Collection on April 30th!

This is the generation that survived the Great Depression and World War Two, so this message about hard work was crucial mythology. He saved his own family from the great depression by performing with his brother Fred and building a family dance studio as a very young man. But Gene Kelly was very politically progressive, so he was also clear eyed about a variety of issues that created inequities that hard work alone could not conquer. No, the 1930s, 40s and 50s were not just the good old days, and Gene Kelly was more than honest about that whenever he had the opportunity to share his opinions. Not that MGM wanted to hear that, but ...

Well, he did try.

"Take me out to the ballgame" is not a great movie, but very cute. I see it as wish fulfillment for Gene Kelly's desire to be a baseball player. The name of the team, the Wolves, was the name of his little league team.

And Otto Mayer in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963)!!

How is it that almost nobody mentions Phil Silvers in the comments?

And "A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum"! And after "Cover Girl"!

Good question 🤔 because they had aloooooot of extra time in that kitchen to sing and dance

the real woman only existed in 1960 and she never danced with Genes but always in the background. Her name was Jeanne Coyne and she was Genes Assistent Choeorapher. After 13 years of marriage she death on Leukemia. This Movie is from 1950 and his real wife was Actress Betsy Blair.

nita beiber☺️

This movie went through a lot of delays in production, rewrites, etc. It often seems like that dancer once had a larger part, maybe her character had lines, because she does show up in the barn dance too. Some actors actually had to leave before the movie was done because they had other commitments. So I think characters were expanded, added, subtracted a few times. I wish we had more of that performer, she seems awesome!

Iron Siego man I didn’t expect to see this meme here lol

the person is phil silvers, he was very famous!

Loved him in "Cover Girl". Didn't particularly like sgt bilko. Loved "A Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum"

If you are referring to Phil Silvers- he is a show business legend

Because of how many years gone by

Glenn Goodfellow I was wondering what was going on...

.... you now southern preachers who weren’t black did that... just saying

More televangelist than anything else.

Can you elaborate? I'm far from an expert on 1950s US culture but I see nothing racially charged in this video at all and from what I've read, Kelly was progressive in his time. He publicly severed his ties with the Catholic church for not helping the poor in Mexico enough... Is it possible you're applying a rigid filter to a context you don't understand?

The movie is released in 1949, so television is barely available and definitely would not have been available on a struggling farm. But revival style preachers would have been a known concept for both white and black small towns, rural communities, in the South, the Midwest, etc. Maybe seeing the song isolated from the plot of the movie is creating the confusion? This movie is about a single woman who is trying to hold on to her family farm. Her younger sister left for NYC to become an actress, then returns with a "summer stock" group that plans to use the barn. It's not clear that they planned to pay rent for the barn. So there are lots of themes of responsibility and hard work running alongside the dancing and singing. It's about city kids colliding with farming chores. Do you really show up at your sister's barn without warning? Why did you leave your sister alone with all that farm work to begin with? Where do the animals live while you rehearse your show? So the song grows out of that. If we're going to make this work, poor starving actors are going to have to help a starving farmer in a very real sweaty way. I think it's more about scolding city kids about wanting fame without the work that might generate fame. I don't think it has anything to do with calling black people lazy. But maybe I'm missing something. Lots of white southern actors had very thick accents, and not because they were wealthy enough to have black nannies. If you find any reruns of the Andy Griffith show, you will hear a thick southern accent from an actor born and raised in North Carolina. Hope that provides some context?

More after that, the words after that. References to laziness and needing dignity. Farm work...smh...

@@Imani_AM where is the racism in this song

@@Imani_AM The lazy ones are the city kids and "budding actors" who want to use the barn for summer stock, and eat the food, but don't want to do the farming chores.

I noticed that too. The way they're mocking black lingo of that time.

Yep! It is. I'm glad I didn't buy this movie 😥

You people are Nuts! 🙄

Richard Michaels how

@@sydneyhorne745 I don't hear any "black lingo." What is this PC nonsense? Phil Silvers seems to be using a "southern" inflection. If you think that's "racist," then the problem is with YOU.

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I read it as Southern more than black

definitely

susan lloyd but the way they were saying the words were like they were doing the stereotype of black people in those days and in the movie they weren’t in the south so......