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Born December 17, 1894 • San Francisco • California
Died June 14, 1979 (aged 84) • Arcadia • California
Notable Works “Ali Baba Goes to Town” • “Bright Eyes” • “Calamity Jane” • “Caught in the Draft” • “High School Hero” • “Just Imagine” • “Pigskin Parade” • “Road to Morocco” • “Shine on, Harvest Moon” • “Sunny Side Up” • “The Little Colonel” • “The Littlest Rebel”

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Dirty Harry
Don Siegel
American director
Joseph Stein
American librettist
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
American actor and director
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
American director
Filming of The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli
American director
A screen legend
Clint Eastwood
American actor and director
Boys Town
Norman Taurog
American director
Robert Altman
Robert Altman
American director
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet
American director
George Cukor
George Cukor
American film director
George Marshall
American director
Mitchell Leisen
American director
filming of The Pink Panther
Blake Edwards
American film director, producer, and screenwriter
scene from Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley
American director
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
American director, producer, and actor
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci
American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter
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Dr. Seuss
American author and illustrator
Robert Z. Leonard
American director
Black Sunday
John Frankenheimer
American director