Sammy Lee
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-05-26 (78 years old)
Deathday
1968-03-30
Place of Birth
New York, USA
Also known As
Samuel Levy
Sammy Lee
Biography
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 ...
Production
1929
as Director
1930
as Choreographer
1929
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1946
as Choreographer
1940
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1934
as Choreographer
1940
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1943
as Director
1939
as Choreographer
1930
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1930
as Choreographer
1942
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1943
as Director
1939
as Director
1942
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1943
as Director
1936
as Director
1930
as Choreographer
1939
as Director
1933
as Choreographer
1929
as Director
1933
as Choreographer
1933
as Stage Director
1945
as Director
1939
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1941
as Director
1941
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1940
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1938
as Director
1934
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1933
as Choreographer
1947
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1944
as Director
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