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DATE=3-25-01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1814 - GENE KELLY
BYLINE=NANCY STEINBACH
VOICE ONE:
I'm shirley griffith.
Voice two:
And I'm steve ember with the v-o-a special english program, people in america. Every week we tell about a person important in the history of the united states. Today, we tell about actor and dancer gene kelly. Experts say he did more than anyone (1)else to make dance popular in america.
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voice one:
Eugene curran kelly was born in pittsburgh, (2)pennsylvania in nineteen-twelve. His mother wanted all five of her children to play music and to dance. Gene was more interested in becoming an (3)athlete. Yet he continued his dance lessons even as he became (4)successful in sports. He said later that he never started out to be a dancer. He wanted to play (5)professional (6)baseball for the (7)pittsburgh pirates baseball team. But, he said, he discovered girls liked his dancing.
Voice two:
Gene kelly graduated from the (8)university of pittsburgh in nineteen-thirty-three. He started teaching at a dancing school. He also (9)directed local plays and (10)performed with his brother fred.
He went to new york city in nineteen-thirty-eight. He was twenty-seven years old. After dancing in a few broadway shows, he got the lead part in the musical play"pal joey" in nineteen-forty.
Critics in new york praised gene kelly for his ability to sing and dance, and at the same time, create a believable (11)character on stage. Soon, he was offered work in (12)hollywood. He went to california in nineteen-forty-one. Voice one:
Gene kelly's real success in movies began in nineteen-forty-four. He and director stanley donen created a special dance for the movie,"cover girl." in it, gene kelly appears to be dancing with himself. Cameras took pictures of him doing two dances separately. Then the two pictures were placed on a single piece of film. In the movie, two gene kellys seem to chase each other up and down steps, threaten each other, and leap over each other's heads.
Gene kelly said later that he had made a huge discovery in that movie. He said dancing in a (13)movie does not look the way it does on the stage. So he tried to do things differently for the movies. He tried to invent dance movements that were especially created for cameras.
Voice two:
In nineteen-forty-five, gene kelly first used a method of filming seen often today. He shared the movie screen with a drawing. In the movie"(14)anchors (15)aweigh", he (16)appeared to dance with a (17)cartoon mouse. It cost one-hundred-thousand dollars to film the eight minute dance.
Gene kelly danced first. Then cartoon artists filmed the drawings of the mouse's movements. The two films were combined into one. In the movie, gene and the mouse are happily dancing and singing together.
Voice one:
Gene kelly was part of another movie-making first in nineteen-forty-nine. It happened in"on the town." it was the first movie musical to be filmed in a real city."on the town" is about three (18)sailors in new york. The movie shows sailors getting off their ship. Then they sing and dance (19)through the city streets.
Musicials were normally filmed on sets built in hollywood to look like other places. Gene said movie company officials at the time thought filming in the real city was (20)crazy, but it worked. It changed movie musicals forever. Gene kelly called "on the town" his (21)favorite movie. It opens with the song,"new york, new york":
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voice two:
Some critics say gene kelly's greatest success was the nineteen-fifty-one movie,"an american in paris." it won eight (22)academy awards, including best picture. Gene won a special (23)oscar for his singing, dancing, acting and creating dances. The movie ended with a seventeen minute ballet dance. It showed the effect of the city of paris on the hero. In the (24)ballet, gene kelly and leslie caron danced to george gershwin's"an american in paris": ((cut 3: an american in paris))
voice one:
Many people think the best gene kelly movie of all is"singin' in the rain." (25)experts say"singin' in the rain" was the last of the great movie (26)musicals. It was released in nineteen-fifty-two. In one part, gene kelly sings the title song while he dances. It is considered one of the best movie (27)scenes in history. In it, he shows how happy he is at the idea of being in love. He performs the song and dance while heavy rain falls on a lonely city street:
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voice two:
Gene kelly appeared in forty-five movies. He danced and sang. He acted in movies that were not musicals. He produced movies and directed them, too. He also directed musical plays on new york city's broadway. He appeared on television, winning an (28)emmy award for the show"jack and the beanstalk." Gene kelly was in the three"that's (29)entertainment" movies. In those movies, he worked with another great dancer, fred astaire. Fred astaire was a movie star when gene kelly was just starting to dance.
Kelly said he was too big for the kind of dancing astaire did so well. He said his kind of athletic dancing was better done in pants and a shirt than in the more formal clothes astaire wore.
Voice one:
Gene kelly died on february second, nineteen-ninety-six following a series of (30)strokes. He was eighty-three years old. He had been (31)honored many times for his work. He was given awards by the kennedy center in washington d.c., and the american film (32)institute. The government of france gave him a chevalier of the legion of honor. President clinton gave him the american national medal of arts.
People said he had created a new kind of american dance by mixing modern, tap and ballet in an (33)athletic way. Gene kelly always said he was not that important. He said he really was just a song and dance man.
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voice two:
This special english program was written by nancy steinbach. It was produced and directed by lawan davis. I'm steve ember.
Voice one:
And I'm shirley griffith. Listen again next week at this time to people in america on the voice of america.
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