Anchors Aweigh

…musicals as Cover Girl (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), and Living in a Big Way (1947), most of them alongside Kelly. Moreover, he received a story credit for renowned choreographer Busby Berkeley’s Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), which he also choreographed.

…even bigger box-office hit with Anchors Aweigh (1945), which starred Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as sailors on leave in Los Angeles who befriend an aspiring actress (Kathryn Grayson). The musical was especially noted for Kelly’s dancing duet with Jerry, the animated mouse; the sequence was a special-effects triumph. Sidney…

He introduced another innovation in Anchors Aweigh (1945), when he danced with an animated-cartoon mouse (Jerry, of the Tom and Jerry cartoons), and in The Pirate (1948) he staged the first of his many filmed ballets, boldly blending solo dancing, mass movement, offbeat camera angles, and vibrant colours to tell…