THATaS NOT A WIDE STANCE, THATaS A GRAND PLIE - 2
I always had the feeling that Gene Kelly was haunted by being a former cute chorus boy. A lot of his signature style, onscreen and off â the insistence that he was just a truckdriver compared to the elegant Astaire, his salt-of-the-earth roles and costumes, his…

THATaS NOT A WIDE STANCE, THATaS A GRAND PLIE
I always had the feeling that Gene Kelly was haunted by being a former cute chorus boy. A lot of his signature style, onscreen and off â the insistence that he was âjust a truckdriverâ compared to the elegant Astaire, his salt-of-the-earth roles and…

GENE KELLY: PUNK OR HEEL?
The role that turned Gene Kelly from chorus boy to star on Broadway and sent him to Hollywood was Pal Joey in the eponymous 1940 Rogers and Hart musical. Brooks Atkinsonâs NY Times review said: