Gene Kelly

So, you know, there you go.

She was in Xanadu with Gene Kelly.

But I've got to say, you know, for all the highs, there was a whole bunch of lows, too, that will cover financial ruin in 1991 when her Koala Blue shops went bankrupt.

There was a divorce, which really upset her because that's just not the way Olivia wanted a marriage.

Tell us all about it.

1952 American musical romantic comedy directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen.

So here we go.

Here we go.

Like today, any original musical, like the songs are written for the script.

We love it.

And so the cast of the movie included Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood, Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown, and a young Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Seldon.

For all of our

Yes.

Well, I improvised it from the great Gene Kelly.

Well,

but he wasn't beating people to a complete pulp.

No.

Because in Anchors Away, Frank Sinatra is dancing next to Gene Kelly and not looking like he's embarrassing himself.

I'm going to put that on the list.

Yeah, just saying.

Was also Pal Joey.

And that one.

Originated by Gene Kelly.

A leading character.

I'm pretty sure we've covered movies older than this, but we're going to cover the 75th anniversary of An American in Paris and the 65th anniversary of West Side Story.

So, Kat, when I text you just confirm that we were on you were like hell yeah brother these are some of your favorite movies so which one do you want to start with first because I feel like Gene Kelly is obviously Gene Kelly for sure

but

I feel like West Side Story is maybe more prevalent in kind of the pop culture sense but which one do you want to get kicked off with first

You can still follow what's happening.

Yeah.

And rewatching it this time, I was just like struck by First of all, I think that this is, Gene Kelly plays just a terrible, terrible person.

You think he's that terrible?

For a full hour on the entire CBS network, you're going to get all the comedy, all the laughs, and one of the greatest Broadway and Hollywood hits of recent years, The Man Who Came to Dinner.

And the man who came will be played by none other than Jack Benny, plus Charles Boyer, Gene Kelly, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, and Rosalind Russell, plus Henry Fonda and John Garfield as narrators.

You'll hear them all on CBS's special holiday hour tomorrow afternoon.

Jack Benny playing the man who came to dinner and breaking a leg had to stay on and on and on.

For a full hour on the entire CBS network, you're going to get all the comedy, all the laughs, and one of the greatest Broadway and Hollywood hits of recent years, The Man Who Came to Dinner.

And the man who came will be played by none other than Jack Benny, plus Charles Boyer, Gene Kelly, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, and Rosalind Russell, plus Henry Fonda and John Garfield as narrators.

You'll hear them all on CBS's special holiday hour tomorrow afternoon.

Jack Benny playing the man who came to dinner and breaking a leg had to stay on and on and on.

I got your name.

Olivia Newton-John from 1980, from the soundtrack to the movie Xanadu, in which she starred along with Gene Kelly.

I think that was his last movie.

Damn, seats going down.