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Double take

posted 21 years ago by mnach
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Who is the artist that Gene Kelly does a double take on when Gene is walking to his location to hang and sell his own paintings? Thanks.

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[–] markmalm 20 years ago

It was a "Winston Churchill" look-a-like. Churchill was an amateur painter. The actor was Greg McClure (he's listed in the cast on Imdb.com)

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[–] Dewhistle 13 years ago

Thank goodness someone asked this. I was puzzling over the same thing.

[–] tony-937 18 years ago

I thought it was supposed to be Picasso. I know he wasn't French, but neither was Winston Churchill. I will now have a closer look when I watch it again (some time next week).

Just out of interest, is it actually documented anywhere that it WAS supposed to be Churchill, because I thought I was being quite clever in spotting "Picasso", and now it looks as though I was wrong.

****EDIT****
O.K.,I've watched it again and that has GOT to be Churchill, with that hat and that cigar.So I stand corrected then.

[–] Phyllidia 18 years ago

I was just wondering the same thing. Thanks!

[–] txdog 15 years ago

ooooohh yeah... Churchill does make total sense...Jerrys fresh out of the war and stayed behind...so i guess did Churchill.

and i thought Picasso was a cool idea!

[–] rstephen52 15 years ago

Definitely Winston Churchill.