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Grease
Rose-Marie
scene from The Wizard of Oz
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Fight scene from West Side Story
The Sound of Music
Cabaret
scene from Chicago
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Filming of The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli
American director
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Boys Town
Norman Taurog
American director
George Marshall
American director
scene from Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley
American director
Robert Z. Leonard
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
American director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
American director
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
British composer
The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
American director
Annie Get Your Gun
George Sidney
American director
Judy Garland, 1945.
Judy Garland
American singer and actress
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane
American actor
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
American actress, singer, director, producer

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Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, with her dog, Toto, from the motion picture film The Wizard of Oz (1939); directed by Mervyn LeRay. (cinema, movies)
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