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Berkeley, Busby (1895-1976)

US choreographer and film director. He used ingenious and extravagant sets and teams of female dancers to create song and dance sequences that formed large-scale kaleidoscopic patterns when filmed from above, as in Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade (both 1933).

After Berkeley had choreographed more than 20 Broadway shows, the producer Samuel Goldwyn engaged him for the musical film Whoopee! (1930). He continued to work in the film industry into the early 1960s. His other credits include 42nd Street (1933) and Dames (1934) as choreographer, and Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) and Babes in Arms (1939) as director.



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