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Berkeley devised elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. Berkeley's works used large numbers of showgirls and props as fantasy elements in kaleidoscopic on-screen performances.
Jan 9, 2023 · The legendary Hollywood film director and choreographer created elaborate musical production numbers famed for their complex geometric patterns and kaleidoscopic visual effects.
Although the musical numbers in those films and in those that would follow were often ostensibly part of a performance, Berkeley defied the stage-bound conventions of movie musicals and used camera angles and movements that would be impossible to experience as a spectator sitting in the audience.
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Aug 1, 2008 · Among its memorable numbers are “Honeymoon Hotel,” “By a Waterfall” and the politically incorrect “Shanghai Lil,” in which a disappointed Eastern European type complains, “She won ...
Jul 11, 2018 · Three films, each leaning on show-stopping Berkeley numbers, shook things up, bringing the movie musical back from the dead, and giving it some genre-defining legs to stand on: 42nd Street,...
Over at Warner Bros., Berkeley choreographed musical numbers in Michael Curtiz’ Romance on the High Seas (1948), Doris Day’s debut film. Day had fond memories of working with Berkeley and coaxed him out of retirement for her musical Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962).
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An innovative choreographer who freed dance in the cinema from the constraints of theatrical space, Busby Berkeley directed musical numbers that removed the confining proscenium of the stage to incorporate the fluid frame of the motion picture image.
