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Article: GENE KELLY: LEGENDARY SCREEN DANCER DIES.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 3, 1996
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Gene Kelly, the dancer who brought his athletic grace to great movie musicals of the 1940s and '50s, died Friday. He was 83.
The entertainer died at his Beverly Hills home of complications from strokes suffered over the past two years, publicist Warren Cowan said.
Kelly reigned at MGM in the postwar era, when the studio was known for turning out the best movie musicals.
He choreographed many of his films and began taking more control by co-directing ''On the Town'' with Stanley Donen in 1949. They teamed again on ''Singin' in the Rain'' and ''It's Always Fair Weather.''
Kelly began concentrating on dramatic roles and directing in the ...