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Born October 18, 1893 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died April 27, 1961 (aged 67) • California
Notable Works “Blessed Event” • “Blonde Crazy” • “Broadway Melody of 1936” • “Broadway Melody of 1938” • “Employees’ Entrance” • “Folies Bergère de Paris” • “Happy Landing” • “Hold Everything” • “It Had to Happen” • “Kid Millions” • “Lady Killer” • “On the Avenue” • “Private Number” • “Taxi!” • “Thanks a Million” • “The Little Giant” • “The Maltese Falcon” • “Topper Returns” • “Winner Take All”

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James Cagney, in a white shirt, is restrained by a police officer while another officer sits at a desk in a jail scene from the film Lady Killer (1933).
Eleanor Powell performs a dramatic dance pose between two rows of uniformed sailors playing trombones in a scene from the 1936 film Born to Dance.
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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.
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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.
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George Marshall
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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.
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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.
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Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
Barbra Streisand
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Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
Georgian-born American director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
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The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
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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).
George Sidney
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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
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Irving Cummings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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