Singing In The Rain - GENE KELLY - Famous Irish American

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- Singing In The Rain: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, 1952.

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed & choreographed by Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, & Debbie Reynolds. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies".

The film was only a modest hit when it was first released. O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.. It has since been accorded legendary status by contemporary critics, & is often regarded as the greatest musical film ever made & one of the greatest films ever made. It topped the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list & is ranked as the 5th-greatest American motion picture of all time in its updated list in 2007.

In 1989, Singin' in the Rain was one of the first 25 films selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2005, the British Film Institute included it in its list of the 50 films to be seen by the age of 14... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singin%27_in_the_Rain



- As if being a world renown director and choreographer, dancer and singer, acrobat and actor wasn’t enough, Gene Kelly had one more accolade he was particularly proud of- and that was his Celtic roots.

Gene’s paternal grandparent was one of the many Irish people to emigrate to New York from Derry during the Famine. According to his wife, Gene was very proud of his Irish identity and even applied for an Irish passport. When his paperwork arrived in Gaelic, she said he was ‘like a little kid with it’. https://www.celtictitles.com/blog/famous-irish-americans/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_Americans