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Born April 13, 1924 • Columbia • South Carolina
Died February 21, 2019 (aged 94) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Bedazzled” • “Charade” • “Damn Yankees” • “Funny Face” • “Indiscreet” • “Movie Movie” • “On the Town” • “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” • “Singin’ in the Rain” • “The Pajama Game” • “Two for the Road”

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Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Funny Face
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Singin' in the Rain
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Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
scene from Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley
American director
Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
American actress, singer, director, producer
Scene from the film Swing Time
Hermes Pan
American choreographer
Uday Shankar
Uday Shankar
Indian dancer
Mbongeni Ngema
South African playwright, composer, choreographer, and director
Jesse Lasky
American producer
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
American director
Filming of The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli
American director
Huston, John; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
William Wyler
William Wyler
American director
filming of Rio Bravo
Howard Hawks
American director
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
American director and producer
Francis Ford Coppola directing The Godfather: Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
American director and screenwriter