Gene Kelly and Jerry Mouse's iconic dance scene in Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Gene and Fred Astaire were good friends and never rivals. But, as Gene explained to me, they were very different. On just the surface level, here are three things that Fred did that Gene didn’t: play golf, play pool, bet on the horses. As Gene said, “I grew up playing football and baseball.” In contrast, Fred “learned to play golf with the rich...and became very good at it, which he demonstrated in a picture once, that he could hit the golf ball in rhythm. But rough games, body contact sports, n

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