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Sammy Lee

AKA: Samuel Levy
Birthday: 1890-05-26
Died: 1968-03-30
Birthplace: New York, USA


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 for best dance direction, in 1935 for "King Of Burlesque", and 1937 for "Ali Baba Goes To Town", both at 20th Century Fox. He would return to MGM after a stint at RKO (1937) and directed shorts and choreographed war time musicals. Smaller studios benefited from his talents in 1944 and 1945. During this time he choreographed Columbia's "Carolina Blues" and Republic's "Earl Carroll's Vanities" before he retired with Paramount's 1945 release, "Out Of This World". Sammy Lee's productive career spanned an impressive sixteen years in Hollywood, and gave us many of cinema's most entertaining moments!

Filmography

The Doll Shop
Job: Director
Children of Pleasure
Job: Choreographer

Abilene Town
Job: Choreographer
Soak the Old
Job: Director
Caravane
Job: Choreographer

Rodeo Dough
Job: Director
Portrait of a Genius
Job: Director
Honolulu
Job: Choreographer

Doughboys
Job: Choreographer
Free and Easy
Job: Choreographer
The Woman in the House
Job: Director

Who's Superstitious?
Job: Director
The Film That Was Lost
Job: Director

Forgotten Treasure
Job: Director
New Shoes
Job: Director
They Learned About Women
Job: Choreographer

Somewhat Secret
Job: Director
Hot Pepper
Job: Choreographer
Manhattan Serenade
Job: Director

Life in the Raw
Job: Choreographer
Cavalcade
Job: Stage Director
Stairway to Light
Job: Director

The Greener Hills
Job: Director
Out of Darkness
Job: Director
Strange Testament
Job: Director

The Hidden Master
Job: Director
Men of Steel
Job: Director
Caravan
Job: Choreographer

Some Time Soon
Job: Director
It's Great to Be Alive
Job: Choreographer
Beyond Our Own
Job: Director