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Sammy Lee will best be remembered for his great contributions as Dance Director of many important musicals during Hollywood's golden age. He first achieved fame in New York as dance director of the highly successful Ziegfeld Follies of 1927. After contributing dance routines for Ziegfeld's famous productions "Showboat", "Rio Rita", and the last of the "Midnight Frolics", he signed with MGM studios early in 1929. His imaginative dance routines included overhead shots a year before Buzby Berkeley's work in "Whoopee". He brought the prestige of the Ziegfeld image to MGM's early musical talkies. Sammy Lee was nominated twice for an academy award for best dance direction, in 1935 for "King Of Burlesque", and 1937 for "Ali Baba Goes To Town", both at 20th Century Fox. He would return to MGM after a stint at RKO (1937) and directed shorts and choreographed war time musicals. Smaller studios benefited from his talents in 1944 and 1945. During this time he choreographed Columbia's "Carolina Blues" and Republic's "Earl Carroll's Vanities" before he retired with Paramount's 1945 release, "Out Of This World". Sammy Lee's productive career spanned an impressive sixteen years in Hollywood, and gave us many of cinema's most entertaining moments!
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1890-05-26
- event Death Date 1968-03-30
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 0.7
- info Birth Place New York, USA
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The Doll Shop
1929-09-28
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The Song Writers' Revue
1929-11-27
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Children of Pleasure
1930-04-26
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Abilene Town
1946-01-11
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Soak the Old
1940-08-24
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Caravane
1934-10-25
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Rodeo Dough
1940-11-09
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Portrait of a Genius
1943-01-23
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Honolulu
1939-02-03
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Doughboys
1930-08-30
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Free and Easy
1930-03-22
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The Woman in the House
1942-05-09
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Who's Superstitious?
1943-01-02
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Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939-09-02
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The Film That Was Lost
1942-10-31
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Forgotten Treasure
1943-07-24
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New Shoes
1936-09-05
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They Learned About Women
1930-01-30
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Somewhat Secret
1939-03-29
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Life in the Raw
1933-07-07
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Hot Pepper
1933-01-15
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Cavalcade
1933-02-08
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Manhattan Serenade
1929-12-21
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Stairway to Light
1945-11-03
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The Greener Hills
1939-01-01
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Out of Darkness
1941-03-29
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Strange Testament
1941-11-15
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The Hidden Master
1940-04-20
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Men of Steel
1938-12-17
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Caravan
1934-12-30
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Some Time Soon
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It's Great to Be Alive
1933-07-08
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Beyond Our Own
1947-11-16