No, I never heard anything regarding that. Gene was married when they made An American in Paris, and also she was 20 years younger than him. I guess they had a good relationship, though, at least professional.
shareThey were never involved romantically. She said they DID have a wonderful working relationship. Kelly couldn't stop regarding himself as a dirty old man, as she was so young, lol. Kelly, unlike a lot of stars, was very picky about ladies he got romantically involved with, and was never promiscuous.
shareyeah that's the thing about Gene Kelly, you hear about so many of those old stars all sleeping with each other but you never hear that stuff about Gene. He wasn't a ladies' man, playboy type. If anything he felt weird doing the romantic scenes with Leslie because she was like 17 when he met her and 18 when they were making An American in Paris, he was in his 40's.
"zing zing zing went my heartstrings, from the moment I saw him I fell"