An American in Paris
1951
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Vincente Minnelli. Director: An American in Paris. Born Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago on February 28 1903, his father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater. Wanting to pursue an artistic career, Minelli worked in the costume department of the Chicago Theater, then on Broadway during the depression as a set designer and costumer, adopting a Latinized ...
Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director. For a career nearly spanning almost five decades, he is best known for his sophisticated innovation and artistry in musical films. As of 2024, six of his films have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Their daughter, the singer and actress Liza Minnelli (b. 1946), won a Tony Award for her performance in Flora, the Red Menace (1965) and an Oscar for Cabaret (1972). Judy Garland Summary Judy Garland was an American singer and actress whose exceptional talents and vulnerabilities combined to make her one of the most enduringly popular Hollywood ...
Vincente Minnelli - Film Director, Musicals, 1950s: Minnelli’s next film was the psychological drama The Cobweb (1955), which starred Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, and Oscar Levant. In a private mental institution, the selection of new drapes for the library becomes the flashpoint for simmering tensions among the doctors and patients. Half an hour was cut ...
May 15, 2009 · Vincente Minnelli rose to fame as the flamboyant, wildly stylistic director of such beloved MGM musicals as An American in Paris, Gigi, and Meet Me in St. Louis. Although these films endure as ...
Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), The Band Wagon (1953), and An American in Paris (1951). An American in Paris and Gigi both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Minnelli winning Best Director for Gigi. In addition to having directed some of ...
Apr 22, 2004 · Vincente Minnelli, born Lester Anthony Minnelli, was the fifth child (and the only one to survive infancy) of Vincent Charles Minnelli and Mina Le Beau. His father was the co-impresario of a tent show company, the Minnelli Brothers’ Tent Theater, and his mother acted in these productions which regularly toured Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana ...
