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Name: Busby Berkeley
Variant Name: William Berkeley Enos
Birth Date: November 29, 1895
Death Date: March 14, 1976
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Place of Death: Palm Desert, California, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: film director

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Biography of Busby Berkeley
1,746 words, approx. 6 pages
Cinematic director Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) pioneered the use of dynamic angles in the art of filmmaking. He is most widely recognized as the man who orchestrated the magnificent dance extravaganzas that characterized Hollywood musicals between 1930...


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Berkeley, Busby (1895-1976) Summary
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The premier dance director of 1930s Hollywood musicals, Busby Berkeley created outrageously fantastical production numbers featuring synchronized hordes of beautiful women moving in kaleidoscopic patterns that took audiences on surreal journeys away...
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Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976), born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers...


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The Stranger
DVD; Busby Berkeley Dreams
03/23/2006: 505 words, approx. 2 pages
What glorious posthumous revenge: After a career spent playing second fiddle to directors whose films he brightened (or rescued) with his cinematic dance extravaganzas, Busby Berkeley finally gets his name on the top line. The Busby Berkeley Collection gathers five of the peerless dance...
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The Washington Post
Musicals That Danced; On Cable, a Marvelous Busby Berkeley Marathon
01/24/1998: 1,061 words, approx. 4 pages
Millions of people won't watch the Super Bowl tomorrow, so cable and broadcast networks are scrambling for the audience that's left. On Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the happiest cable channel around, the attractions chosen to battle the Bowl have something in common with...
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The New York Observer
Tradition Reimagined Revives an Old Favorite
5/1/2005: 567 words, approx. 2 pages
The latest resurrection of Gounod's Faust at the Metropolitan Opera-staged with compulsive vividness-employs a cast that for uniform brilliance may surpass that of any Faust in the company's 122-year history. That's no mean feat: The opera has been performed at the Met more than 700...
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The New York Observer
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle: Mildly Amusing Martial-Arts Romp
4/17/2005: 1,979 words, approx. 7 pages
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, from a screenplay by Mr. Chow, Tsang Kan Cheong, Xin Huo and Chan Man Keung, is difficult for me to evaluate. I know next to nothing about Mr. Chow, even though he's been appearing in Hong Kong films since 1988,...
 


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