Charles Walters
Charles Walters ( born November 17, 1911 in Brooklyn, New York; † August 13, 1982 in Malibu, California ) was an American film director and choreographer. His specialty was dance movies and musicals.
Life
Charles Walters began his career as a dancer on Broadway before moving to Seven Days Leave with Lucille Ball and Victor Mature in 1942 received a small supporting role. He then worked at MGM as a choreographer for film musicals such as Meet Me in St. Louis ( 1944) and Ziegfeld Follies of Vincente Minnelli ( 1946). In the latter, he was already one of the cue stick. His debut as a director was Good News from 1947 with Peter Lawford and June Allyson.
In 1948 he took over the direction of Vincente Minnelli for Easter Parade with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. In the next few years he was also a director and choreographer of a number of other film musicals, including Lili (1953 ) with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer. For this film, he received his only Oscar nomination for Best Director. Walters tried to get off the film musicals and other genres. In 1953 he directed the heart in a fever, in which he is seen in a scene as a clumsy dance partner of Joan Crawford. He also turned the 1957 adventure comedy Do not Go Near the Water with Glenn Ford and 1960 championship affair with Doris Day and David Niven. In 1966 he moved from MGM to Columbia Pictures, and led so quickly, my boy, if not the last time the director of a movie, which also marks the last appearance by Cary Grant in Hollywood. Afterwards Walters worked for television, including for series with Lucille Ball, before the age of 70 died of lung cancer in 1982.