biography
pronunciation:
[minelee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–86)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the husband of Judy Garland. He left school at 16, and by 1933 was art director of Radio City Music Hall. He became a Broadway director in 1935, and went to Hollywood in 1940, becoming an outstanding director of film musicals of sweeping scope and lavish visual style. His best-known works include The Clock (1945), Kismet (1955), and Gigi (1958, Oscar). |
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