Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly being there for each other
“When Gene’s wife Jeannie Coyne died of cancer more than 20 years ago, Gene withdrew from everyone and shut himself up in a back room of his house. One night there came a knock at the kitchen door. When Gene didn’t answer, the caller kept knocking. Finally Gene said, ‘There’s nobody home!’’
“‘I know,’ the visitor called back, ‘that’s why I came to be with you.’ Gene opened the door and there stood Fred Astaire, carrying sodas and sandwiches. The two of them sat together, without saying a word, all that night long.” Fred said.
“Turns out Gene had done the same thing for Astaire when his wife died several years before. They were really very close friends.”






