Bobby Connolly

William Harold Connolly ( born July 4, 1897 in New York City, New York, † February 29, 1944 in Encino, California ) was an American choreographer and film director who conferred only for the 1936-1938 Academy Award four times for the best dance director was nominated.

Biography

Connolly began in the 1920s, first as a choreographer for productions of Broadway theaters. The most famous musical comedies of that time include Good Morning Dearie ( 1921), Kitty 's Kisses (1926 ), Honeymoon Lane ( 1926), Judy (1927 ), Good News (1927 ), Funny Face (1927 ), Treasure Girl ( 1928), The New Moon (1928 ) showgirl (1929 ), Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 ( 1931), Free for All (1931 ), America's Sweetheart ( 1931) and Hot - Cha! ( 1932). During this time he worked with, among others, with the composer Sigmund Romberg.

In 1933 he was the first time in Moonlight and Pretzels as a choreographer at a film production worked and worked throughout his career in the production of nearly 30 films as a choreographer with.

At the Academy Awards in 1936, he was equal nominated twice for the first-ever Academy Award for Best Dance Direction and indeed the one for the dance scene "Latin from Manhattan " from the movie Go Into Your Dance ( 1935) and on the other for " Playboy of Paree " from Broadway Hostess ( 1935). Other nominations for this lent only to 1938 Oscar followed in 1937 for the dance scene "1000 Love Songs " from Cain and Mabel (1936 ) and in 1938 for "Too Marvelous for Words " from the movie Ready, Willing and Able (1937 ). Another well-known film on which he worked as a dance director and choreographer, was Flirtation Walk ( 1934), in which he turned the wedding scene at the largest ever set that was built by Warner Bros.. More than 400 professional dancers occurred in this scene.

Connolly was also active as a film director and turned 14 films such as A Day at Santa Anita ( 1937), Fools for Scandal (1938 ), Out Where the Stars Begin ( 1938) and Romance Road ( 1938).

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