Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams
by Alvin Yudkoff
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Author: Alvin YudkoffEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN: 0823088197
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Billboard Books
Book Reviews of Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams
Book Review: Disappointing summary of the life of Gene Kelly
Summary: 2 Stars
I looked forward to reading this book. I had read-and reread- Clive Hirschhorn's 1974 biography, butI wanted to read something that tied Kelly's life up and perhaps presented a well argued and constructive criticism of his work after his death. However Yudkoff's work proved extremely disappointing. The part of the book that dealt with things after the end of Hirschhorn's book was very short-only a few pages . The rest of the book dealt with Kelly's life but without shedding any new light on it.The most annoying part however was the beginning of each chapter. Here Yudkoff "imagined" inward dialogue that Kelly was supposedly having whilst listening to a tribute being paid to him by the AFI. This, to me, put it in the catagory of the new biog of Ronald Reagan where the author puts himself into the narrative when he plainly wasn't there. How could Yudkoff know what Kelly was thinking? He freely admits that Hirschhorn was the biographer able to speak to Kelly. Yudkoff wasn't. The over-riding impression I was left with -rightly or wrongly- was that Yudkoff didn't really like Kelly. There is no warmth in the book towards him. If you didn't have the filmatic evidence you would be left with the impression that Kelly was a so-so dancer,a middle rate actor- and in later life a coward because he used doubles when he was older and had already proved his courage in films such as The Pirate and The Three Muskateers.
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