Gene Nelson
Birthday: 24 March 1920, Seattle, Washington, USA
Birth Name: Eugene Leander Berg
Height: 183 cm
Gene Nelson was barely a teen when he saw the Fred Astaire movie Flying Down to Rio (1933), which would change his life. It was then that he decided he would be a dancer. After graduating from high sc ...Show More
Film is a marvelous medium for dancing. The sky's the limit. You can do wonderfully imaginative thin Show more
Film is a marvelous medium for dancing. The sky's the limit. You can do wonderfully imaginative things with film. It's like being a magician. In my heyday, I could only do about four pirouettes without starting to fall, but with film, I could do a dozen by cutting and editing. The magic of film is that you can create anything you want. Hide
It's always the dancer who has to work overtime when nobody else does. I would say that 25% of the B Show more
It's always the dancer who has to work overtime when nobody else does. I would say that 25% of the Broadway shows that have ever been done have been saved by dancers. Just think about it; if not saved, at least heightened. Hide
I was happier directing than I've ever been doing anything else. That form of creativity is very rew Show more
I was happier directing than I've ever been doing anything else. That form of creativity is very rewarding and I liked it a lot. Both careers were incomplete. I feel unfulfilled in either one. I didn't become the star I wanted to be. Hide
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Louis Metcalf
Louis Metcalf
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