Skeins of Thought

The Quotable:

Gene Kelly on his own acting abilities:

"Every time I play a straight role, someone comes up with the news that this is Kelly's first dramatic part. I've played many of them.

"Oh, sure, I was nominated for an Academy Award in 1946, [as Best Actor in a Leading Role for Anchors Aweigh] but that was for my dancing. I knew I wouldn’t win. I was proud to be nominated but Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend was too tough to beat. Besides, everyone knows that if you play either a drunk or a whore you can’t possibly miss winning an Oscar…

I would have loved to have been as good an actor as Spencer Tracy or Marlon Brando. I was a very good stage actor, but in films I never was quite as good, just passable…

You’re typecast when you are a dancer, but I managed to get in pictures like The Three Musketeers which made more money than any musical I ever was in, and then there was The Black Hand which made a fortune around the world.

"I did a lot of straight parts for MGM but they were mostly Clark Gable or Robert Taylor rejects. I never preferred acting. I'm not crazy about performing, even as a dancer. I like to create the stuff. I like to direct and choreograph, and performing, I never worked at it.

"I know that some wonderful actors on the stage are just second-rate on film. I know that happened to me. On the stage, I think, I was a very good actor but in film, I was a big cut below. Of course, a lot of my time here was spent probing dance and musicals--and they're not exactly written by Tennessee Williams."

Sources:

Gene Kelly, Creative Genius

The Gene Scene

Parish, James Robert, Pitts, Michael R., Hollywood Songsters: Singers Who Act and Actors Who Sing, (Vol. 2), Taylor & Francis, 2003.

Stoop, Norma McLain, "Gene Kelly: An American Dance Innovator Tells It Like it Was— And Is," Dance Magazine, July, 1976.

Picturegoer, August, 1953

TV and Movie Screen, August, 1975

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