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Also Known As Robert Louis Fosse
Born June 23, 1927 • Chicago • Illinois
Died September 23, 1987 (aged 60) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Awards And Honors Tony Awards • Academy Award (1973)
Notable Works “All That Jazz” • “Big Deal” • “Cabaret” • “Damn Yankees” • “Lenny” • “Pippin” • “Star 80” • “Sweet Charity” • “The Pajama Game”

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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.
Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey perform on stage in Cabaret (1972), with Minnelli in a flapper dress and headpiece and Grey in a tuxedo and top hat, standing before a blue curtain with large currency symbols.
Ben Vereen and Roy Scheider perform with dancers in body suits painted with red veins in a dramatic scene from the film All That Jazz, directed by Bob Fosse.
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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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Liza Minnelli
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Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
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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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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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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
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Joel Grey in Cabaret
Joel Grey
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Overhead view of a Busby Berkeley dance sequence from Footlight Parade, showing dancers arranged in a precise, symmetrical circular formation with outstretched arms and legs.
Busby Berkeley
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Matthew Broderick wearing glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and striped tie, smiling at the camera in a formal portrait taken in 2017.
Matthew Broderick
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Nathan Lane smiling in a close-up portrait, wearing a dark pinstripe jacket and black shirt.
Nathan Lane
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Savion Glover
Savion Glover
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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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Yul Brynner in The King and I
Yul Brynner
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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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Ethel Merman
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Harold Prince
Harold Prince
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Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.
Woody Allen
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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.
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Sydney Pollack
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