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Also Known As Arthur Grossman
Born September 9, 1894 • Charleston • South Carolina
Died April 12, 1973 (aged 78) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1968) • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1952)
Notable Works “Singin’ in the Rain”

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Judy Garland
Judy Garland
American singer and actress
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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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.
Gene Kelly
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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.
Barbra Streisand
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Betty Comden
American songwriter
Irving Berlin with his hands on a piano's keyboard.
Irving Berlin
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Alan Jay Lerner
American screenwriter and songwriter
Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern
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Mervyn LeRoy
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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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Donald O’Connor
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Vernon Duke
American composer
Al Jolson stands behind Dolores Del Rio, resting his hand on her shoulder, in a scene from the 1934 film Wonder Bar; both wear formal evening attire.
Al Jolson
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Walter Donaldson
American musician
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
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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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Stephen Sondheim smiling at the camera, wearing a light blue shirt and a brown plaid jacket at the Paramount Theatre.
Stephen Sondheim
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Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
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Joel Grey in Cabaret
Joel Grey
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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
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