Caballero Gene Kelly

Yet another one part of Pontiac Star Parade. You never tell that man was 47 at the time...

[@JustineWittich]

He's gone, but thank Heaven he lives on on film Amazingly wonderful!

[@MajorDenisBloodnok]

Waouuu, never saw that (reminds me his wonderful Cumpursita in Anchors Aweigh)...it truly shows why Gene Kelly was the best (movie) dancer: precise, very in controle but yet very, very hot...this man knew how to use his (lovely, especially in this spanish outfit) body...not bad for a 47 year old man!

[@renarga6886]

Sure... What a man!!!

[@m.entera3196]

Everyone who ever watched him dance fell in love. He was a truly athletic dancer, but refined, fully in control and was having fun, all the while covering every base, and being the epitome of Hollywood movies and Broadway, classical ballet, jazz, tap, and all forms of Dance. Even my now forty year old daughter's favorite movie when she was a kid was "Singin' In The Rain". She was raised without TV but videos were around at that time. I still have a vhs of Kelly's "An Invitation To The Dance". I saw him back in the 1990's at the original Spago Restaurant, overlooking Sunset Boulevard. Spago wasn't fancy but was packed. I stood in THE line for the four single toilet bathrooms at the top of a stairway, the place to meet all the beautiful people. Gene Kelly was a few people in front of me and while he was wearing glasses, he looked like a Million Dollars. He was telling his companions that he was so surprised to see Cyd Charisse dining there too. Spago was expensive and Wolfgang Puck's food was lovely, but you never knew who you'd meet on the stairs to the bathrooms.

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

He actually had training in ballet and almost accepted a position with the Ballet Russe. He learned Latin dance from Rita Hayworth's uncle. Rita was quite a dancer as well.

[@elissaschornstein9399]

Gorgeous Gene. A wonderful all round entertainer. He was in great shape here considering he was about 46 or 47 years old. He always looked very young for his age. I love all his movies. I dore him there was nobody else like him. He was also a very decent actor and really convincing in dramatic roles considering he was primarily a dancer. A very handsome sexy man. A real classy gentleman. Love you Gene. ♥️

[@MrSophisticatedDude]

A very decent? One of the best actors.

[@TinaSudesberry-ho3bt]

Yes u are right 🔥

[@dksmith7814]

Gene said that he hated the dance lessons he was forced to take as a child, as a young adult he watched many gifted dancers took something from many and made it is own, Gene was always trying new steps something different. I like him as an actor too! Gene Kelly was before my time so I'm thankful for his many films that survive 21 years after his death...

[@elissaschornstein9399]

Gene Kelly forever. 🌹🌹🌹

[@mtl9732]

Reminds me of Nina Nina Nina Nina. but I know it's from AA~ miss that technicolor gold shirt & the sword! He's great fun to watch. Thanks for posting

[@dgniewek]

He was magnificent!

[@babbaruff1045]

Sooooooo attractive 😍😍😍

[@wgigiso]

gene kelly was unique!

[@juanmonge8]

I would love to see part 2 or the whole program!

[@juanmonge8]

El Guapo was muy macho! I love his " I don't give a Fuck style of dancing.

[@pec2pec]

@SorceressZila The beautiful girl in blue was Carol Lawrence, the original Maria in "West Side Story."

[@jennyw6380]

love this!!! 🙌🙌🙌

[@kellyakabilly]

I agree wholeheartedly!

[@susanlloyd7395]

That man had so much soul.

[@jaimecosta4103]

Olé!!! I'd never saw this Kelly routine before!! Where is it from??? Some TV Show I guess, around 1959 perhaps?

[@saraluzz]

Yes, it's from 1959, and it's from a TV Special: "Pontiac Star Parade".

[@susanlloyd7395]

What a body.

[@susanlloyd7395]

I would love to see this whole show.

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

I believe this segment was part of a television special he did, maybe late 50s? I believe I found the show almost by accident on you tube. He did a fair amount of tv, but almost always as specials, because he didn't want to get tied down to a weekly "variety" show. He did one series briefly where he played a priest.

[@susanlloyd7395]

Gene Kelly was muy calliente.

[@femboybeautyworld]

My God! Fantastic!

[@tonyaeheman6189]

Gene oh my.

[@susanlloyd7395]

Pure seduction. Kelly studied flamenco with Rita Hayworth's uncle in the 1930's.

[@susanlloyd7395]

Love the hanky flourish at the end.

[@renarga6886]

The man Rita Hayworth should have married.

[@esmeephillips5888]

No, he would have bullied her and she would not have stood up to him as Betsy Blair did.

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

Kelly was a good friend and co star to her when one of her husbands was threatening her. I read in a biography that Phil Silvers and Gene Kelly called themselves the Rita sandwich during the making of Cover Girl, because they went with her everywhere on the set. Her husband at that time had told her that he would cut her face if she tried to leave him. The friends were not confident that studio security would protect her closely enough, so they kept a look out for her themselves. How one wishes Rita Hayworth could have enjoyed a more peaceful life.

[@susanlloyd7395]

What an hombre.

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

Does anyone know the flamenco dance group that provides the background here? They are wonderful and seem authentic too. Typical Kelly, always the perfectionist, not wanting to settle for any group of extras.

[@Tina-k8b]

Wow

[@esmeephillips5888]

He is taking it fairly easy (by mortal standards) since this was taped a year or two after his traumatic ligament injury while skiing. Unfortunately cautious choreography induces him to ham up the 'acting' flourishes in compensation: always a danger with Gene, more so on the small screen where you really have to dial down. A pre-accident Montalban would have been less self-consciously 'fiery' and 'smitten'. Despite these drawbacks, it is a fine performance which makes one ask, as with the Astaire specials of the late 1950s, how sponsored commercial television could accomodate such quality then and pump out so much dreck now.

[@susanlloyd7395]

Why can't we see the whole thing?

[@fmartino100]

To bad Cyd Charisse wasn't there to dance with him.

[@perrathje]

Fabolous! Fred Astaire, eat your heart out! :-)

[@dksmith7814]

Someone said women give their hearts to Fred Astaire but their bodies to Gene Kelly, Fred was more elegant where Gene was more physical, a real workout! Gene's daughter said he was never on a diet....if he gained a few pounds between films he lose the weight as soon as the next project started. I love the song and dance of, 'Moses Supposes', that Gene and Donald O'Connor do in, "Singin' in the Rain'.... That looked like a hard workout.... ; >)

[@susanlloyd7395]

Both great dancers but Gene Kelly was a sex symbol, too.

[@Feliandyx16]

Como se llama la cancion que esta bailando Kelly ???

[@renarga6886]

03:08 España Cañi

[@susanlloyd7395]

Gene Kelly. How on earth did this kid from Pittsburgh become the dance/sex God of the 20th Century? Oh, who cares? Just enjoy.

[@mtl9732]

Let's see your moves at his age.

[@LaviniaDeMortalium]

The beautiful girl in blue - she looks familiar - who is she?

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

I believe this is Carol Lawrence, but not sure.

[@torilllundborn7899]

Perhaps Gene Kelly had Spanish anchestors....🙂

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

Kelly studied flamenco in the 1930s.

[@JIMBOSKI58]

The look and outfit was very Spanish, but not one of Kelly's best.

[@susanlloyd7395]

Two years before, Gene Kelly had torn his knee up on the ski slopes of Switzerland, so this is more about mood than bravura dancing. Check out his Spanish dance in "Anchors Aweigh." After the skiing accident, GK said "that was the end of really serious dancing for me."