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Also Known As Hermann Kosterlitz
Born May 1, 1905 • Berlin • Germany
Died September 21, 1988 (aged 83) • California
Notable Works “100 Men and a Girl” • “Harvey” • “My Man Godfrey” • “No Highway in the Sky” • “The Bishop’s Wife” • “The Robe” • “Wabash Avenue”

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Merle Oberon in Désirée (1954).
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Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Robert Z. Leonard
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Filming of The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli
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Boys Town
Norman Taurog
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George Marshall
American director
scene from Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley
American director
Roy Del Ruth
American filmmaker
Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
King, Henry
Henry King
American director
Stanley Donen
American film and dance director
Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
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George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
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Walter Lang
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Annie Get Your Gun
George Sidney
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Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Gene Kelly
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
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Irving Cummings
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poster for The Little Colonel
David Butler
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Mark Sandrich
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