Gene Kelly & Co.(Column) From: Dance Magazine | Date: April 1, 1996| Author: Barnes, Clive | COPYRIGHT 1996 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Kelly's recent passing marks the end of the era of the American movie musical. He and his peers rejuvenated dance for a younger generation and inspired them. Kelly was perhaps a greater innovator in choreography and directing than Fred Astaire.

Nowadays, when the passing of almost any Tom, Dick, or Harry is sonorously proclaimed as the end of an era, even the phrase, let alone the concept, has become a sadly devalued currency. Yet when Gene Kelly--the last of the red-hot movie hoof...

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