Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli , of its true name Lester Anthony Minnelli was an American realizer , born with Chicago the February 28th 1910 and dead the July 25th 1986.

It is sometimes also referred under the name of Vicente Minnelli .

Biography

Vincente Minnelli is born in a family from people Spectacle. His/her father, Vincent Minnelli, directed the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater and the Vincente young person enters the entertainment world as of the three years age.

Showing a certain talent for the Drawing, it begins its career as draftsman of Costume S and decorator and approaches the put in scene as an assistant. Named director artistic of the Radio operator City Music Hall with New York in 1933, it made its beginnings with Broadway, going up inter alia the spectacle Ziegfeld Follies .

At the beginning of the Years 1940, Arthur Freed proposes to him to join it with MGM. Minnelli finds dull then and statics the settings in scene Hollywood iennes and undertakes to return in its films the atmosphere of the artists who had touched it, the fawn-coloured, the impressionist and the surrealist . The films of Minnelli are high colors and its skill to mix several styles makes it famous.

It puts in scene many musical comedies, famous for their oneiric scenes and the integration of scenes of Ballet or Chanson S in osmosis with the course of the history.

Vincente Minnelli Marie four times, and in particular with Judy Garland during six years (of 1945 with 1951), with which it has a girl, Liza Minnelli.

He writes his memories, All in scene ( I Remember it Well ) whose English title is a reference to a song of Gigi , and the title French that of the one of his great successes, All in scene ( The Band Wagon ), musical comedy on the topic of the entertainement (distraction, spectacle) Hollywood IEN and the life of scene.

Rewards

an American in Paris (1951), All in scene (1953) and Gigi (1958) gained each one the Oscar of the best film. All in scene and Gigi were worth moreover in Minnelli the Oscar of the best realizer.

Catalog of films

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