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Agnes de Mille: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Agnes DeMille • Agnes George de Mille
Born September 18, 1905 • New York City • New York
Died October 7, 1993 (aged 88) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Kennedy Center Honors (1980)
Notable Works “110 in the Shade” • “Brigadoon” • “Carousel” • “Lizzie Borden: A Dance of Death” • “The Girl in Pink Tights”

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Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
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Black and white portrait of Fred Astaire, 1936, wearing a suit, tie, and boutonniere, looking slightly to the side with a slight smile.
Fred Astaire
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Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
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Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
Georgian-born American director
Mickey Rooney smiles in a promotional portrait from around 1955, wearing a maroon and gray striped shirt against a blue background.
Mickey Rooney
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George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
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Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.
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Chita Rivera smiling in a black blazer with a pin, short dark hair styled with bangs, photographed in 2006 against a light background with partial text visible.
Chita Rivera
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Mary Martin.
Mary Martin
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Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
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Alan Jay Lerner
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Christopher Wheeldon
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Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
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Six-time Tony winner
Audra McDonald
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Anna Sokolow
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Vernon Duke
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Norman Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes
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Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
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