TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1962)

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He'd whipped the biggest bully in the neighborhood. The guy'd bled all over him and Gene's shirt was soaked with blood. But, as his pals marched him to his house, he could hear a whole brass band playing. There'd been plenty of fights — he'd even won some — but this was the real hour of triumph. And then he was home. No one was around — not his big brother Jim, nor his kid brother Fred. He sneaked in the back door, trying to make it up the stairs unseen. His mother was entertaining the ladies of the Altar Society for tea. He could hear them in the parlor. For that matter, he could see them — it was a pretty small house to sneak into. And suddenly he heard his mother's voice: "Gene, what's happened?" His sisters came running, and the hero burst into tears. This wasn't the last of the fighting. It was a mixed neighborhood, with boys from differing backgrounds who battled each other instinctively, in a kind of unceasing "class" warfare. "I study to be a priest on TV," says Gene, "by remembering the young parish priests who had such an influence on us when we were kids in Pittsburgh. Father Tynan, for example — a handsome, tough, well-educated fellow, virile and energetic, who played third base like crazy and had a way with kids, tough or otherwise. "He was probably in the back of my mind — along with Father Gallagher at St. Raphael's and Father Coakley at Sacred Heart — when I dreamed of being a priest myself. . . ." Gene Kelly was eighteen and studying law at the University of Pittsburgh when he discussed the new idea with a priest — who advised him to take his time, probably sensing that the monastic life wasn't for Gene. And it wasn't. A fighter, Gene Kelly'd had his own nose broken in a campus brawl about this time. He's a warm, loving man, too, who craves a personal life, marriage, children. And a nonconformist, if ever there was one ! Since then, he's developed all potentials, believing: "The more you do, the more you learn." When I saw him two years ago, he'd been heralded for his direction of "Flower Drum Song" on Broadway, had just finished creating two spectaculars that made TV history, was just winding up his movie role opposite Spencer Tracy and Fredric March in "Inherit the Wind," and was about to take off for Paris to stage an original ballet for the Paris Opera — and to spend Christmas vacation skiing with his daughter Kerry, who was in school in Switzerland! A true will-o'-the-wisp, restless and volatile. But something was missing, I thought at the time. I've known Gene for years and, to me, he seemed more electric than ever but less serene. What was he missing? Well, see him now, stopping to roll son Timothy's baby carriage to a sunnier spot, and you know what was missing. Because now it's here. Father O'Malley has a baby! Father O'Malley has a wife! Jeanne has made this difference in Gene's life. She has brought it into focus — a happy blend of creative fantasy and equally creative reality. "I can't imagine an adult man not wanting marriage," Gene said, standing there in the sun. "Freedom is lonely . . . it's sheer boredom . . . getting to know you is the loveliest thing in life. It seems to me that a man who doesn't want marriage has either been so hurt, he is afraid — or he's just never met happiness and doesn't know its face. A little variety can't possibly compensate for the joys of solidity, of having someone close by your side, of having children." Nineteen-year-old Kerry came bouncing in from U.C.L.A. She is a pretty, brown-eyed girl who is going to take honors at Swarthmore next year, but she wanted to be with her father and Jeanne when the baby came, so she spent a semester at U.C.L.A. and lived at home. She greeted her dad, peeked at the sleeping Timothy — who, his father says, looks just like Winston Churchill — borrowed car keys and was off for Beverly Hills to meet Jeanne and shop. Gene's eyes followed her. Under one roof, he now had everything that matters most. He'd worked in Ireland, France, Yugoslavia, Chicago, London, New York and Hollywood . . . been cited by the American Legion for his outstanding contribution to FrancoAmerican relations . . . named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government . . . honored as a friend by the city of Paris while directing Jackie Gleason in "Gigot." For two years, he'd been proud of being an "international citizen." "But the baby has changed our lives," he laughed. "Even before he was born, he brought us scurrying home. Now that he's here, he tells us where to live, tells me when to wake up and when to sleep! Your whole world changes with the coming of a child. It becomes the focal point of a family's life." "A woman clips your wings" The world is full of men who, having known one touch of freedom, find family life difficult, indeed unendurable. And no one has had a more winged life than Gene — who says, "For the joy of having a child, I'd eliminate a lot of freedom. And for a wife. A woman clips your wings a bit, but she's worth