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Also Known As Mark Rex Sandrich
Born October 26, 1901 ā€¢ New York City ā€¢ New York
Died March 4, 1945 (aged 43) ā€¢ Los Angeles ā€¢ California
Notable Works ā€œA Woman Rebelsā€ ā€¢ ā€œCarefreeā€ ā€¢ ā€œFollow the Fleetā€ ā€¢ ā€œHere Come the Wavesā€ ā€¢ ā€œHoliday Innā€ ā€¢ ā€œShall We Danceā€ ā€¢ ā€œSo Proudly We Hailā€ ā€¢ ā€œSo This Is Harris!ā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe Gay Divorceeā€ ā€¢ ā€œTop Hatā€

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sit on a sofa in formal attire, with Rogers raising her hand, in a scene from the 1934 film The Gay Divorcee.
Fred Astaire stands at center stage in a tuxedo and top hat, holding a cane, surrounded by dancers in matching attire in a scene from the 1935 film Top Hat.
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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
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
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George Marshall
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
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Robert Z. Leonard
American director
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Roy Del Ruth
American filmmaker
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
King, Henry
Henry King
American director
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Stanley Donen
American film and dance 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
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
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
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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Irving Cummings
American director
poster for The Little Colonel
David Butler
American director
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William A. Seiter
American director
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Henry Levin
American director