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Also Known As William Berkeley Enos
Born November 29, 1895 • Los Angeles • California
Died March 14, 1976 (aged 80) • Palm Springs • California
Notable Works “Footlight Parade” • “The Gang’s All Here”

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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.
June Preisser holds Mickey Rooney's arm while Judy Garland stands to the right, all in costume, in a scene from Strike Up the Band (1940).
Mickey Rooney sits at a piano smiling up at Judy Garland, who stands beside him in a dress, in a scene from Strike Up the Band (1940).
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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
American choreographer and director
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
American actor, dancer, and director
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Stanley Donen
American film and dance director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
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Mbongeni Ngema
South African playwright, composer, choreographer, and director
Jacob Epstein in work clothes sculpts a clay bust of actress Anna Neagle, who sits posing in a gown beside the sculpture in his Hyde Park studio.
Dame Anna Neagle
British actress
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
American director
Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
Barbra Streisand
American singer and actress
Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
Georgian-born American director
Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley stands center stage, smiling and holding a rifle, with Louis Calhern raising her arm in victory and Howard Keel to her left, in Annie Get Your Gun (1950).
George Sidney
American director
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
American dancer and singer
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Anna Sokolow
American choreographer and dancer
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
American actress and dancer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Bill
Bill Robinson
American dancer
Scene from the film Swing Time
Hermes Pan
American choreographer
Bennett, Michael
Michael Bennett
American dancer and choreographer
Uday Shankar
Uday Shankar
Indian dancer
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Betty Comden
American songwriter
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Joseph Stein
American librettist

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