biography
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Berkeley, Busby
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originally William Berkeley Enos
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pronunciation:
[berklee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1976)
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| biography:
| Choreographer and director, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He worked as an actor, stage manager, and dance director, directing his first Broadway show, A Night in Venice, in 1928. He became one of the cinema's most innovative choreographers, noted for his mobile camerawork and dazzling kaleidoscopic routines involving spectacular multitudes of chorus girls. His work enhanced such films as Forty Second Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1934), and Dames (1934). In later years, ill health restricted his opportunities, but he enjoyed a Broadway triumph as the supervising producer of the 1971 revival of No, No, Nanette. |
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