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Grease
Rose-Marie
scene from The Wizard of Oz
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Fight scene from West Side Story
The Sound of Music
Cabaret
scene from Chicago
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Filming of The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli
American director
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Boys Town
Norman Taurog
American director
George Marshall
American director
scene from Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley
American director
Robert Z. Leonard
American director
King, Henry
Henry King
American director
Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
Roy Del Ruth
American filmmaker
Stanley Donen
American film and dance director
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
American director
Judy Garland, 1945.
Judy Garland
American singer and actress
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire
American dancer and singer
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
American director
The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
American director
Annie Get Your Gun
George Sidney
American director
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
American actress and diplomat
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer

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Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, with her dog, Toto, from the motion picture film The Wizard of Oz (1939); directed by Mervyn LeRay. (cinema, movies)
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