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Arthur Freed was the movie producer head of the Freed Unit at MGM, which was responsible for creating some of the studio's classic musicals such as 'Easter Parade', 'An American In Paris' and 'Singin' in the Rain'.
May 17, 2016 · On March 14, 1923, he married Renee Klein, with whom he had a daughter, Barbara. Freed’s love of music and poetry would coalesce to create his success as a lyricist. For two years he performed his original songs for the Marx Brothers’ tour.
Dec 2, 1996 · “Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM,” airing on PBS tonight, is an incisive, irresistibly entertaining documentary on MGM’s most sophisticated producer of musicals.
Jan 25, 2014 · The Freed Unit: MGM Musicals, the Evolution of Integration. There’s a saying you might know – it’s pretty popular among classic film buffs, and it goes a little something like this “MGM has more stars than there are in heaven.” Well, I’m not here to argue whether that statement is true or not.
Renee Klein Freed. Birth. 4 Nov 1902. Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Death. 18 Mar 1978 (aged 75) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA. Burial. Hillside Memorial Park.
Aug 19, 2015 · In 1923 he married Renee Klein (1902-1978) and they settled in Los Angeles. Freed then spent several years in the nightclub circuit before joining Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as a lyricist. At MGM Freed worked with Brown again.
Jun 4, 2018 · That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured. Without Freed,...
