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Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta dance together in a decorated gymnasium during a scene from Grease (1978), with a crowd of people watching in the background.
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Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, Jack Haley as the Tin Man, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow, Judy Garland as Dorothy, and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch in a stone-walled room from The Wizard of Oz.
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire dance energetically together on stage in a scene from the 1948 film Easter Parade, with an audience seated in the background.
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.
Fight scene from West Side Story
Julie Andrews as Maria stands on a grassy hill with arms outstretched, wearing a black blouse and striped apron dress, in The Sound of Music.
Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey perform on stage in Cabaret (1972), with Minnelli in a flapper dress and headpiece and Grey in a tuxedo and top hat, standing before a blue curtain with large currency symbols.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, in a black fringed dress, performs a dance number on stage surrounded by backup dancers in a scene from the film Chicago.
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The King of Pop
Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, and dancer
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
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
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
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle
Indian singer
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
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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
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
American director
Portrait of Marilyn Monroe with platinum blonde hair, red lipstick, pearl earrings, and a white fur wrap, posing against a dark background.
Marilyn Monroe
American actress
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
Judy Garland
Judy Garland
American singer and actress

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