Patricia Ward Kelly is the wife and biographer of legendary dancer, director and choreographer Gene Kelly. She and her husband met at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC in 1985, when he was the host of a television special and she was a writer. Soon after, he invited her to California to write his memoir, a job for which she recorded his words nearly every day for over ten years. They married in 1990 and were together until his death in 1996. Currently, Mrs Kelly serves as Trustee of The Gene Kelly Image Trust and Creative Director of The Gene Kelly Legacy, Inc., a corporation established to celebrate Gene Kelly’s artistry worldwide. She lives in Los Angeles where she curates the Gene Kelly Archives and is completing a book about her husband. A lover of Scotland, Mrs Kelly performed her one-woman show Gene Kelly: The Legacy in Glasgow and Inverness. Her live Symphonic/Cinema tribute Gene Kelly: A Life in Music premiered with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 2018, travelled to the Kingston Symphony in Canada and RTÈ in Dublin, and is now available for touring.