Highest-Rated Movies about 'Gene Kelly'

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Inherit the Wind (1960), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), On the Town (1949), Summer Stock (1950), An American in Paris (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gene Kelly movies.

#1. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

Storyline: Despite being key players for the Wolves, baseball players Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra) and Eddie O'Brien (Gene Kelly) harbor a passion for vaudeville. When a local gambler (Edward Arnold) puts a lot of money on the Wolves to lose a big game, he tries to win the bet by offering Eddie the lead role in a newly produced show. Though Eddie is tempted to accept, he risks incurring the wrath of both Dennis and the team's owner (Esther Williams), who just happens to be his girlfriend.

Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, song and dance, romance, classic hollywood, buddy film, sports ...

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#2. Inherit the Wind (1960)

Storyline: In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March) for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) for the defense.

Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, historical drama, american history, evolution, cultural conflict, based on true events, moral dilemma ...

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#4. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Storyline: 1927 Hollywood. Monumental Pictures' biggest stars, glamorous on-screen couple Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood, are also an off-screen couple if the trade papers and gossip columns are to be believed. Both perpetuate the public perception if only to please their adoring fans and bring people into the movie theaters. In reality, Don barely tolerates her, while Lina, despite thinking Don beneath her, simplemindedly believes what she sees on screen in order to bolster her own stardom and sense of self-importance. R.F. Simpson, Monumental's head, dismisses what he thinks is a flash in the pan: talking pictures. It isn't until The Jazz Singer (1927) becomes a bona fide hit which results in all the movie theaters installing sound equipment that R.F. knows Monumental, most specifically in the form of Don and Lina, have to jump on the talking picture bandwagon, despite no one at the studio knowing anything about the technology. Musician Cosmo Brown, Don's best friend, gets hired as Monumental's ...

Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, classic, golden age hollywood, dance, broadway ...

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#5. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

Storyline: Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris once month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close... A film whose scenario is much less important than its feeling of euphory, according to the director Jacques Demy.—Yepok

Plot Keywords: musical, french film, romance, dance, color film, 1960s, love ...

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#6. On the Town (1949)

Storyline: Three sailors - Gabey, Chip and Ozzie - let loose on a 24-hour pass in New York and the Big Apple will never be the same! Gabey falls head over heels for "Miss Turnstiles of the Month" (he thinks she's a high society deb when she's really a 'cooch dancer at Coney Island); innocent Chip gets highjacked (literally) by a lady cab driver; and Ozzie becomes the object of interest of a gorgeous anthropologist who thinks he's the perfect example of a "prehistoric man". Wonderful music and terrific shots of New York at its best.

Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, dance, new york, adventure, friendship ...

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#7. Summer Stock (1950)

Storyline: As a favor to her actress sister Abigail, New England farmer Jane Falbury allows a group of actors use her barn as a theater for their play. In return, the cast and crew have to help her with the farm chores. During rehearsals, Jane finds herself falling for the show's director, Joe Ross, who also happens to be engaged to the show's leading lady-- Abigail.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>

Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, dance, judy garland, golden age hollywood, farm ...

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#8. An American in Paris (1951)

Storyline: Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

Plot Keywords: musical, romance, dance, paris, love, artist, painting ...

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#10. For Me and My Gal (1942)

Storyline: Set during WW I, Palmer and Hayden team up as vaudeville artists. Harry Palmer deliberately injures his hand to avoid being drafted to the army. Later, he makes up for this. WW I patriotism for a WW II audience, very sentimental, great musical episodes and songs.—Gerhard Gonter <g.gonter@ieee.org>

Plot Keywords: musical, romance, song and dance, world war ii, golden age hollywood, judy garland, broadway ...

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#11. Brigadoon (1954)

Storyline: Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place. It appears once every hundred years for one day, then disappears back into the mists of time, to wake up to its next day a century hence. When Tommy falls in love with Fiona, a girl of the village, he realizes that she can never be part of his life back in America. Can he be part of hers in Brigadoon?—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: musical, fantasy, romance, song and dance, scotland, time travel, village ...

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#12. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

Storyline: The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>

Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, classic, 1940s, usa ...

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#13. Let's Make Love (1960)

Storyline: Billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue. He goes to the theatre, where he sees Amanda rehearsing a song, and the director thinks him an actor suited to play himself in the revue. He takes the part in order to see more of Amanda.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, golden age of hollywood, show business, love triangle, song and dance ...

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#14. Invitation to the Dance (1957)

Storyline: This is a movie where three entirely different stories are told though dancing. Words are not used and the style of dancing is different for each part. Kelly is a clown in the 'Circus'; a Marine in 'Ring Around the Rosy'; and Sinbad in 'Sinbad the Sailor'.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

Plot Keywords: musical, dance, anthology, ballet, modern dance, choreography, avant-garde ...

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