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Michael Kidd was a dancer and a choreographer
who became interested in dance and theater through his older
brother Phil Greenwald, who was a talent booker for the
Concord Hotel in New York's Catskill Mountains. He made
his Stage debut in 1937 in The Eternal Road, and in the
same year became a member of American Ballet, and later
the Ballet Caravan, where he stayed until 1940. Danced with
his wife in Ballet Caravan in 1939.
Kidd went on to work with many stars
such as Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Betty Grable
etc. Danced in the Movie "It's Always Fair Weather".
Michael Kidd has won five Tony Awards* for his Broadway
choreography plus The Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts
and Sciences lists that Kidd received an honorary Oscar
at the ceremony in March 1997.
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