Gene Kelly movies." "Anchors Aweigh" became one of the most successful films of 1945 and Kelly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In "Ziegfeld Follies" (1946)—which was produced in 1944 but not released until 1946—Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire, for whom he had the greatest admiration, in the famous "The Babbitt and the Bromide" challenge dance routine. After Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1946, MGM had nothing planned and used him in a routine, black-and-white movie: "Living in a Big Way". The film was considered so weak that the studio asked Kelly to design and insert a series of
Fred Norbert Kelly Fred Norbert Kelly Fred Norbert Kelly (June 29, 1916–March 15, 2000) was an American choreographer, dancer, actor and director. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1916, Kelly was the youngest of five children. Kelly began his dance career at the age of four performing with his older siblings known as The Five Kelly's, including famed American actor and dancer Gene Kelly. He began to teach dance at thirteen years old at the family owned Gene Kelly Studio after learning to tap dance from legends such as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Hal Leroy. Kelly would later go on to have a successful