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Glasgow Film Festival 2012

A selection of dance classics to get your toes tapping, this is a great chance to enjoy your favourite Gene Kelly films on the big screen or to get to know this fleet-footed star for the first time. If you find yourself wanting to take to the floor yourself, you'll get your chance at the accompanying Gene Kelly Ceilidh.

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Anchors Aweigh (Country: US; Year: 1945; Director: George Sidney; Writer: Isobel Lennart, Natalie Marcin; Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell)
Two sailors enjoy their time on shore leave.
An American In Paris (Country: US; Year: 1951; Director: Vincente Minnelli; Writer: Alan Jay Lerner; Stars: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch)
A painter and a pianist seeking their fortunes in Paris fall in love with the same girl.
Brigadoon (Country: US; Year: 1954; Director: Vincente Minnelli; Writer: Alan Jay Lerner; Stars: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse)
Two Americans on a trip through the Scottish highlands encounter a mysterious village where nothing seems to have changed for two centuries.
Hello, Dolly! (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Gene Kelly; Writer: Ernest Lehman, Johann Nestroy, Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder; Stars: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, Danny Lockin, E.J. Peaker, Joyce Ames, Tommy Tune, Judy Knaiz, David Hurst)
A window who works as a matchmaker finds herself falling in love with a wealthy client and determines to win him for herself.
On The Town (Country: US; Year: 1949; Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly; Writer: Adolph Green, Betty Comden; Stars: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin)
Sailors enjoy shore leave in New York City, with plenty of song and dance.
The Pirate (Country: US; Year: 1948; Director: Vincente Minnelli; Writer: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich; Stars: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen)
A travelling singer poses as a famous pirate in order to seduce a beautiful, betrothed woman.
Singin' In The Rain (Country: US; Year: 1952; Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly; Writer: Adolph Green, Betty Comden; Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno, Dawn Addams, John Albright, Betty Allen)
A silent film idol romances a Hollywood starlet in this much-loved classic.
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Country: US; Year: 1949; Director: Busby Berkeley; Stars: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams)
Two baseball stars dream of a career in Vaudeville.
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