Busby Berkeley’s name was synonymous with choreography, and yet he had no formal dance training. He learned his trade in the army during World War I by teaching battalions of soldiers their maneuvers, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bring up Golden Age Hollywood filmmaker Busby Berkeley, and most people conjure his staging of elaborate, kaleidoscopic dance ...
To mark 50 years since the director and choreographer’s death, we count down his best fantastical, kaleidoscopic numbers, from erotic silhouettes to sinister tap dancers ...
During the Depression Era, Hollywood’s grandiose productions brought infinite comfort to the American public. One of the greats of this era was Busby Berkely, the visionary choreographer, famous for ...
'42nd Street' (1933); Young And Healthy; Shuffle Off To Buffalo; Forty Second Street; 'Gold Diggers Of 1933' (1933); We're In The Money (The Gold Digger's Song); I've Got To Sing A Torch Song (Outtake ...
“Gold Diggers of 1933,” a 1933 musical directed by Mervyn LeRoy with choreography by Busby Berkeley, will open the 16th edition of the Buffalo Film Seminars, the semester-long series of screenings and ...
Busby Berkeley is one of the few directors whose name is synonymous with, and instantly evocative of, a style—namely, musical production numbers featuring undulating masses of geometrically arrayed ...