who was gene kelly married to
Gene Kelly was married three times during his life. His first wife was Betsy Blair (December 11, 1923 â March 13, 2009). She was an aspiring actress/dancer from New Jersey who met Gene in 1940 when she was a day early for a night club audition.
Geneâs third wife was Patricia Ward Kelly. She met Gene in 1985. He was narrating a documentary for the Smithsonian Museum, and she was the scriptwriter. Gene invited her to move back to California with him, and in 1990 they were married. On February 2, 1996, Gene died in his sleep from a massive stroke. Patricia Ward Kelly is the trustee of the Gene Kelly Image Trust, and still makes public appearances speaking about her late husband.
One more Hollywood bachelor is out of circulation now that Gene Kelly has married his pretty dance assistant Jeanne Coyne, in a surprise ceremony at 2am in Tonopah Nevada their close friends suspected they were in love but even so the marriage came as a bit of a surprise.