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Summer Under the Stars: Gene Kelly

TCM, beginning at 3 a.m.

Your toes will be tapping all day today as Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars celebrates legendary actor/dancer/ choreographer/filmmaker Eugene Curran Kelly — better known simply as Gene Kelly — with 12 of his memorable films. The lineup begins with Busby Berkeley’s musical For Me and My Gal (1942), which found Kelly making his film debut singing and dancing alongside Judy Garland, co-choreographing a couple of numbers and earning a Best Actor award from the National Board of Review. The day will also feature other Kelly/ Garland pairings — in 1948’s The Pirate and 1950’s Summer Stock, both of which Kelly also co-choreographed — as well as another of his collaborations with director Berkeley, in 1949’s Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Of course, a day celebrating Kelly would not be complete without two of his most iconic movies, and those are indeed on the schedule: 1951’s An American in Paris (pictured) and 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain; Kelly co-choreographed both and codirected the latter with Stanley Donen.

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