The contract system at Hollywood studios like MGM was a very efficient system in that because we were at the studio all the time we could rehearse a lot. But it also really repressed people. There were no union regulations yet, and we were all indentured ...
[on his working experience with Debbie Reynolds while filming Singin` in the Rain (1952) (1952)] I wasn`t nice to Debbie. It`s a wonder she still speaks to me.
There was no model for what I tried to do with dance . . . and the thing Fred Astaire and I used to bitch about was that critics didn`t know how to categorize us. They called us tap dancers because that was considered the American style. But neither of us...