Sammy Lee
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Birth Name: Samuel Levy
Born: 26 May 1890 Died: 30 March 1968
Country of origin: United States
Height: 5' 4"
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Sammy Lee will best be remembered for his great contributions as Dance Director of many important musicals during Hollywood's golden age. He first achieved fame in New York as dance director of the highly successful Ziegfeld Follies of 1927. After contributing dance routines for Ziegfeld's famous productions "Showboat", "Rio Rita", and the last of the "Midnight Frolics", he signed with MGM studios early in 1929. His imaginative dance routines included overhead shots a year before Buzby Berkeley's work in "Whoopee". He brought the prestige of the Ziegfeld image to MGM's early musical talkie
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1. Stairway to Light (1945)
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2. Who's Superstitious? (1943)
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3. The Immortal Blacksmith (1944)
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4. Somewhat Secret (1939)
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5. The Hidden Master (1940)
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