The first time I saw Gene Kelly, in the movie For Me And My Gal, I can only have been about 11 - but I totally fell in love with him.Imagine how thrilled I was when, a decade later, my then boyfriend, the actor Chaplin, took me for lunch to Gene's Cape Cod-style house on Rodeo Drive. I was overwhelmed, totally star-struck, almost tongue-tied.I left Sydney a year later. He was moaning a lot about not working and spending all his days drinking, golfing and playing tennis, and I had lent him my car to drive to Palm Springs for the weekend to meet Gene Kelly and the gang. I was to take a creaky old prop plane there, as I was shooting The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing on Saturday morning. Sydney promised to meet me at the airport.
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