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Sammy Lee

Sammy Lee

Director · Born 1890-05-26 · New York, USA

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Biography

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 talkies. Sammy Lee was nominated twice for an academy award for best dance direction, in 1935 for "King Of Burlesque", and 1937 for "Ali Baba Goes To Town", both at 20th Century Fox. He would return to MGM after a stint at RKO (1937) and directed shorts and choreographed war time musicals. Smaller studios benefited from his talents in 1944 and 1945. During this time he choreographed Columbia's "Carolina Blues" and Republic's "Earl Carroll's Vanities" before he retired with Paramount's 1945 release, "Out Of This World". Sammy Lee's productive career spanned an impressive sixteen years in Hollywood, and g…

Directed

  1. Stairway to Light (1945) — Director
  2. Soak the Old (1940) — Director
  3. Rodeo Dough (1940) — Director
  4. The Woman in the House (1942) — Director
  5. The Song Writers' Revue (1929) — Director
  6. Who's Superstitious? (1943) — Director
  7. Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga (1939) — Director
  8. Forgotten Treasure (1943) — Director
  9. New Shoes (1936) — Director
  10. The Greener Hills (1939) — Director
  11. The Film That Was Lost (1942) — Director
  12. Somewhat Secret (1939) — Director
  13. Out of Darkness (1941) — Director
  14. Strange Testament (1941) — Director
  15. The Hidden Master (1940) — Director
  16. Men of Steel (1938) — Director
  17. The Immortal Blacksmith (1944) — Director
  18. The Doll Shop (1929) — Director
  19. Portrait of a Genius (1943) — Director
  20. Manhattan Serenade (1929) — Director
  21. Beyond Our Own (1947) — Director
  22. Some Time Soon — Director