Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli, Lester Anthony Minnelli actually ( born February 28, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois, † July 25, 1986 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an American film director.
Life
Vincente Minnelli was the son of an Italian-American musical conductor and thus came into contact with early musical productions. His mother was a French actress. The family ran a traveling theater where Vincente at the age of three years was on stage. At 16, Minnelli left school without qualifications and went back to his native town. He started his professional career as a stage and costume designer for Broadway shows in the 1920s and in 1933 became the artistic director of Radio City Music Hall in New York. Here he staged revues successful until 1940 and was then hired by Arthur Freed for MGM in Hollywood. Initially he worked for some Mickey Rooney / Judy Garland movies directed by Busby Berkeley. In 1943, he was allowed his first film stage. Even his second film in 1944, Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland in the lead role, establishing him as a director. The collaboration with Judy Garland culminated in their wedding 1945. 1946 was their daughter Liza Minnelli born.
Minnelli starred in many MGM classics of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1952 he was awarded for his direction of the musical An American in Paris an Oscar nomination. While the production was awarded the prize for the best film of the year with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, Minnelli is the American George Stevens was defeated ( A Place in the Sun). Six years later he confided Caron in the title role in the musical film Gigi, for which he finally won the Oscar.
With the drama of Nina, in which his daughter Liza was seen on the side of Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, finished Minnelli mid-1970s, his successful film career. He died in 1986 after long suffering from Alzheimer 's disease and was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. At the director remembers a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ( 6676 Hollywood Boulevard).