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Also Known As Jerome Rabinowitz
Born October 11, 1918 • New York City • New York
Died July 29, 1998 (aged 79) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Emmy Award • Kennedy Center Honors (1981) • Academy Award (1962) • Tony Awards (1958)
Notable Works “West Side Story”

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Jerome Robbins
West Side Story (1961)
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Harold Prince
Harold Prince
American theatrical producer and 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
Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Mike Nichols
American director
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Christopher Wheeldon
British-born dancer and choreographer
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters
American singer and actress
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
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
American actress
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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Bette Midler
American actress and singer
Stephen Sondheim smiling at the camera, wearing a light blue shirt and a brown plaid jacket at the Paramount Theatre.
Stephen Sondheim
American composer and lyricist
Robert Redford as Bill McKay stands at a microphone in a suit and striped tie, with a large campaign poster of himself in the background, in the film The Candidate.
Robert Redford
American actor and director
Rita Moreno smiles and holds up her memoir featuring a black-and-white portrait of herself on the cover at a book signing event in Los Angeles.
Rita Moreno
Puerto Rican-born American actress, dancer, and singer
Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.
Elia Kazan
American director and author
James Earl Jones smiling and wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie and glasses at an event in 1997.
James Earl Jones
American actor
Mr. Entertainment
Sammy Davis, Jr.
American entertainer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Savion Glover
Savion Glover
American dancer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Annie Get Your Gun
Ethel Merman
American actress and singer
Tim Rice in 1989 wearing a flat cap, bow tie, and jacket, looking slightly to the side.
Tim Rice
English lyricist

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