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Bob Fosse is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Choreographer American born on 23 june 1927 at Chicago (USA)
Robert Louis "Bob" Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, director, screenwriter, film director and actor.
He won 8 Tony Awards for choreography, more than anyone else, as well as one for direction. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning for his direction of Cabaret.
His third wife was dancer/actress Gwen Verdon. In 1960, they had a daughter, Nicole Providence Fosse, who later also became a dancer/actress. He separated from Verdon in the 1970s, but they remained legally married until his death in 1987. Verdon never remarried. During rehearsals for The Conquering Hero in 1961, it became known that Fosse had epilepsy, when he suffered a seizure onstage.
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Birth name Robert Louis Fosse
Nationality USA
Birth 23 june 1927 at Chicago (USA)
Death 23 september 1987 (at 60 years) at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Awards Emmy Award, Academy Award for Best Director
Nationality USA
Birth 23 june 1927 at Chicago (USA)
Death 23 september 1987 (at 60 years) at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Awards Emmy Award, Academy Award for Best Director
Robert Louis "Bob" Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, director, screenwriter, film director and actor.
He won 8 Tony Awards for choreography, more than anyone else, as well as one for direction. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning for his direction of Cabaret.
Biography
Fosse was first married from 1949 to 1951 to dance partner Mary Ann Niles (1923–1987). After his first divorce, he remarried in 1952 to dancer Joan McCracken; this marriage lasted until 1959, when it, too, ended in divorce.His third wife was dancer/actress Gwen Verdon. In 1960, they had a daughter, Nicole Providence Fosse, who later also became a dancer/actress. He separated from Verdon in the 1970s, but they remained legally married until his death in 1987. Verdon never remarried. During rehearsals for The Conquering Hero in 1961, it became known that Fosse had epilepsy, when he suffered a seizure onstage.
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, 1h51Genres Musical theatre, Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Documentary films about cities
Actors Edie Adams, Beatrice Arthur, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard, Bryan Batt, Betsy Blair
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating82%
That's Dancing! (1985)
, 1h45Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, Documentary films about films
Actors Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sammy Davis Jr., Ray Bolger, Thomas William Smith
Rating71%
Thieves (1977)
, 1h32Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Héctor Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge, John McMartin
Roles Mr. Day
Rating46%
This script must be run from the command line
, 2h13Directed by Gene Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities, Musical films, Documentary films about films
Actors Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lew Ayres, Stan Laurel
Roles (archive footage)
Rating72%
Gene Kelly et Fred Astaire présentent les meilleurs moments des films de la MGM.
The Little Prince (1974)
, 1h25Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder, Donna McKechnie, Joss Ackland, Victor Spinetti
Roles The Snake
Rating64%
Based in the 1943 classic book of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the fable tells the story of an aviator (played by Richard Kiley) forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert. There he is befriended by a young boy, the Little Prince, who had descended to Earth from Asteroid B-612. In the days that follow, The Pilot hears about his past and various journeys throughout the solar system.
Lenny (1974)
, 1h51Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Gary Morton, Kathryn Witt, Ted Sorel
Roles The Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Rating74%
The film jumps between various sections of Bruce's life, including scenes of when he was in his prime and the burned-out, strung-out performer who, in the twilight of his life, used his nightclub act to pour out his personal frustrations. We watch as up-and-coming Bruce courts his "Shiksa goddess", a stripper named Honey. With family responsibilities, Lenny is encouraged to do a "safe" act, but he cannot do it. Constantly in trouble for flouting obscenity laws, Lenny develops a near-messianic complex which fuels both his comedy genius and his talent for self-destruction. Worn out by a lifetime of tilting at Establishment windmills, Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose in 1966.
Damn Yankees (1958)
, 1h51Directed by George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Théâtre, Baseball films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, James Komack
Roles Mambo Dancer (uncredited)
Rating69%
Joe Boyd is a middle-aged fan of the unsuccessful Washington Senators baseball team. His obsession with baseball is driving a wedge between him and wife Meg—a problem shared by many other wives of Senators supporters. Meg leads them in lamenting their husbands' fixation with the sport ("Six Months Out of Every Year").
My Sister Eileen (1955)
, 1h48Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Horace McMahon, Bob Fosse, Tommy Rall
Roles Frank Lippincott
Rating67%
Witty Ruth and pretty Eileen Sherwood, sisters from Columbus, Ohio, relocate to New York City and settle in a rundown basement studio apartment in a Greenwich Village building owned by Papa Appopolous. Ruth aspires to be a writer, while Eileen hopes to achieve success as an actress. They become acquainted with their neighbor Ted Loomis, an athlete who lives with his fiancée Helen.
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
, 1h12Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Lurene Tuttle, Hanley Stafford
Roles Charlie Trask
Rating60%
At Grainbelt University, a Midwestern university, freshman Dobie Gillis (Bobby Van) and his pal Charlie Trask (Bob Fosse) court cute coeds Pansy Hammer (Debbie Reynolds) and Lorna Ellingboe (Barbara Ruick). Pansy's wealthy father George (Hanley Stafford) can't stand Dobie and does everything in his power to keep them apart. Along the way, Dobie and Pansy manage to blow up the chemistry lab, while Dobie's officious English professor Pomfritt (Hans Conried) is misled to believe that the feckless Gillis is a literary genius.
Give a Girl a Break (1953)
, 1h24Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Marge Champion, Kurt Kasznar, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, William Ching, Bob Fosse
Roles Bob Dowdy
Rating62%
When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis (Gower Champion) suggests casting an unknown for the role. When it is announced in the newspapers, throngs of hopefuls show up. The revue's musical composer, Leo Belney (Kurt Kasznar), champions ballerina Joanna Moss, while gofer Bob Dowdy (Bob Fosse) is enchanted by novice Suzy Doolittle (Debbie Reynolds). Then producer Felix Jordan (Larry Keating) persuades Ted's former dance partner, Madelyn Corlane (Marge Champion), to come out of retirement to try out, much to Ted's great discomfort.
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
, 1h49Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Rall, James Whitmore
Roles "Hortensio"
Rating69%
Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, a divorced couple, meet at Fred's apartment to hear the score for the Cole Porter (Ron Randell) musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew". Lois Lane, who is to play Bianca, arrives and sings "Too Darn Hot". Lilli almost decides against performing in the show, as she fears it might interfere with her honeymoon. But when she overhears Cole and Fred promising Lois the part, she decides to play Katherine after all.
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Star 80 (1984)
, 1h43Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography
Actors Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees, David Clennon
Rating67%
A teenaged girl, Dorothy Hoogstraten, is working at a Dairy Queen in her hometown of Vancouver, Canada when a customer in his 20s, Paul Snider, makes her acquaintance. Snider becomes her date for a school dance, over the objections of Dorothy's mother, Nelly, who does not care for his manner, dress, or attempt to ingratiate himself with the family, Dorothy's younger sister in particular.
All That Jazz (1979)
, 2hDirected by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about angels, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Max Wright, Gwen Verdon
Rating77%
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine, and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest "show" of all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique.
Lenny (1974)
, 1h51Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Gary Morton, Kathryn Witt, Ted Sorel
Rating74%
The film jumps between various sections of Bruce's life, including scenes of when he was in his prime and the burned-out, strung-out performer who, in the twilight of his life, used his nightclub act to pour out his personal frustrations. We watch as up-and-coming Bruce courts his "Shiksa goddess", a stripper named Honey. With family responsibilities, Lenny is encouraged to do a "safe" act, but he cannot do it. Constantly in trouble for flouting obscenity laws, Lenny develops a near-messianic complex which fuels both his comedy genius and his talent for self-destruction. Worn out by a lifetime of tilting at Establishment windmills, Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose in 1966.
Liza with a Z (1972)
, 51minutesDirected by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Concert, Musical films
Actors Liza Minnelli, Ann Reinking, Gwen Verdon, Lorna Luft, Kay Thompson
Rating83%