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Born October 4, 1916 • New York City • New York
Died May 5, 2002 (aged 85) • Las Vegas • Nevada
Notable Works “Anchors Aweigh” • “Annie Get Your Gun” • “Bye Bye Birdie” • “Half a Sixpence” • “Kiss Me Kate” • “Scaramouche” • “Show Boat” • “Viva Las Vegas” • “Who Was That Lady?”

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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).
Marge Champion and Gower Champion dance together in striped costumes and hats, smiling and holding arms, in a scene from the 1951 musical Show Boat.
Promotional photo from Scaramouche (1952) showing Eleanor Parker, Stewart Granger, and Janet Leigh smiling and posing together, with Leigh holding a theatrical mask.
Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley dance together in a scene from the film Viva Las Vegas, with Ann-Margret in a sweater and pants and Elvis in a light-colored suit.
Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra, and Gene Kelly in sailor uniforms sit together on a couch, with Kelly holding a telephone, in a scene from the musical film Anchors Aweigh.
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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.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
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
American 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
American choreographer and 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
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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Mbongeni Ngema
South African playwright, composer, choreographer, and director
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Betty Comden
American songwriter
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Joseph Stein
American librettist
Director Norman Taurog, wearing a hat and glasses, sits beside actor Mickey Rooney, who is smiling, on the set of the film Boys Town, with camera equipment visible behind them.
Norman Taurog
American director
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George Marshall
American director
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Robert Z. Leonard
American director
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Roy Del Ruth
American filmmaker
King, Henry
Henry King
American director
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Stanley Donen
American film and dance director
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
American actor
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
American director, playwright, and costume designer
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
American director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
American director