I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
[on Fred Astaire] I work bigger. Fred`s style is more intimate. I`m very jealous of that when I see him on the small screen. Fred looks so great on TV. I`d love to put on a white tie and tails and look as thin as him and glide as smoothly. But I`m built like a blocking tackle.
Born this day in 1912: Gene Kelly the cat's meow of MGM musicals. Voted the 15th Greatest Male Star of all Time by the American Film Institute. Actor, dancer, singer, film producer, choreographer and single-handedly responsible for making the ballet form commercially popular to film audiences in the 1940's. True to his Virgo ascendant, Kelly was a workaholic--when did this man have time to sleep?
Gene Kelly
Astro Stats:
Virgo Rising
Sun in Leo
Moon in Capricorn
Mercury in Leo
Venus in Virgo
Mars in Virgo
Jupiter in Sagittarius
Saturn in Gemini
Uranus in Aquarius
Neptune in Cancer
Pluto in Gemini
N.Node in Aries
Lilith in Aquarius
Part of Fortune in Capricorn
