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Born October 8, 1897 • Tbilisi • Georgia
Died December 4, 1987 (aged 90) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works “Applause” • “Becky Sharp” • “Blood and Sand” • “City Streets” • “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” • “Gay Desperado, The” • “Golden Boy” • “High, Wide and Handsome” • “Love Me Tonight” • “Silk Stockings” • “Summer Holiday” • “The Mark of Zorro” • “The Song of Songs” • “We Live Again”

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Rouben Mamoulian.
Fredric March: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Rouben Mamoulian sits at the center directing Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, who stand on stairs, during the filming of Queen Christina (1933) with camera crew and set equipment visible.
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Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
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
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
Six-time Tony winner
Audra McDonald
American actress and singer
Actor Brock Peters smiling in a suit and tie at an event, with a softly blurred background.
Brock Peters
American actor
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Mbongeni Ngema
South African playwright, composer, choreographer, and director
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
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
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
Judy Garland
Judy Garland
American singer and actress
Nathan Lane smiling in a close-up portrait, wearing a dark pinstripe jacket and black shirt.
Nathan Lane
American actor
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
Umeki, Miyoshi; Buttons, Red: Sayonara
Joshua Logan
American director and producer
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
Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
American actress and singer
Joel Grey in Cabaret
Joel Grey
American actor, singer, and dancer
Mickey Rooney smiles in a promotional portrait from around 1955, wearing a maroon and gray striped shirt against a blue background.
Mickey Rooney
American actor