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Article: Gene Kelly, regular guy
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1996
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The Warren Theater in Roxbury, later a furniture store and an
evangelical temple, showed MGM movies during Hollywood's "Golden
Era." None glittered more gaudily than "An American in Paris,' the
1951 film that made backlot Paris magically Parisian. With other
urchins, I saw it at the affordable Warren six times.
Gene Kelly had won us as D'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers," but
here he was a regular guy, even learning how to deal with (gulp!)
girls.
Eugene Curran Kelly, alumnus of St. Raphael's parochial school in
Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh and the US Navy, died Friday
at 83, mourned by millions of us to whom he was an accessible role
model, an older brother. We knew he couldn't ...