# The best Gene Kelly movies

Splashing through Singin' in the Rain, the ballet of An American in Paris and three sailors on leave in On the Town: Gene Kelly's best films as ranked by /Film and Gold Derby.

- 87 votes · 13 items
- Nov 2, 2023 · couchpotato_yyc
- https://even.best/en/l/4430/the-best-gene-kelly-movies

## Top 13

1. **Singin' in the Rain (1952)** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Hollywood moves to talkies.
2. **Summer Stock (1950)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Charles Walters. A theatre troupe on Judy Garland's farm.
3. **On the Town (1949)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Three sailors on leave in New York.
4. **It's Always Fair Weather (1955)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Three war buddies ten years on.
5. **Brigadoon (1954)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Vincente Minnelli. A Scottish village that appears once a century.
6. **The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Jacques Demy. An American pianist in a French seaside town.
7. **The Pirate (1948)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Vincente Minnelli. An actor posing as a pirate, with Judy Garland.
8. **Anchors Aweigh (1945)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — George Sidney. Dancing with Jerry the mouse; Oscar nomination.
9. **Xanadu (1980)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Robert Greenwald. A roller disco with Olivia Newton-John.
10. **What a Way to Go! (1964)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — J. Lee Thompson. One of Shirley MacLaine's husbands.
11. **An American in Paris (1951)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Vincente Minnelli. A painter and Leslie Caron; six Oscars.
12. **Cover Girl (1944)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Charles Vidor. With Rita Hayworth.
13. **Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Busby Berkeley. Baseball and vaudeville with Frank Sinatra.

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