Editing Gene Kelly (section)

===Marriages===
[[File:Gene Kelly Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|Kelly, photographed by [[Allan Warren]], in 1986]]
Kelly married three times. His first marriage was to 17 year old actress [[Betsy Blair]] in 1941. They met the previous year in 1940 at an audition where Kelly hired Blair to work as a dancer for a nightclub revue.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,480424,00.html| title= An American in London }}</ref> They had one child, Kerry (b. 1942), and they divorced in April 1957.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2gcjAAAAIBAJ&pg=979,473011 |title=Marriage Ends For Gene Kelly, Actress Wife |date=April 4, 1957 |newspaper=Palm Beach Post |page=10 |access-date=December 7, 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1960, Kelly married his choreographic assistant [[Jeanne Coyne]]. She had previously been married to Stanley Donen between 1948 and 1951. Kelly and Coyne had two children, Timothy (b. 1962) and Bridget (b. 1964). This marriage lasted until Coyne died in 1973.

Kelly married Patricia Ward in 1990, when he was 77 and she was 30.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/married-to-gene-kelly-he-didn-t-seem-that-old-to-me-1.3950371 |title=Married to Gene Kelly: 'He didn't seem that old to me' |newspaper=Irish Times |access-date=October 24, 2019 |archive-date=July 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723023145/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/married-to-gene-kelly-he-didn-t-seem-that-old-to-me-1.3950371 |url-status=live }}</ref> Their marriage lasted until his death in 1996, and she has never remarried.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/03/movies/gene-kelly-dancer-of-vigor-and-grace-dies.html |title=Gene Kelly, Dancer of Vigor and Grace, Dies |last=Krebs |first=Albin |date=February 3, 1996 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=5 |access-date=December 7, 2012 |archive-date=December 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215012129/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/03/movies/gene-kelly-dancer-of-vigor-and-grace-dies.html |url-status=live }}</ref>