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Stage Name

Birth Name

Michael Kidd Milton Greenwald

   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.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Brooklyn, NY 8/12/1919 Mary Heater   n/a  
                       
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Ballet Betty Grable   n/a  
Ballroom Fred Astaire      
Jitterbug Gene Kelly      
Waltz Martha Graham      
 

Films

Theaters

Stage

1936- Happy Days Revue (Danced) 46th St. Theater (Finian's) 1937 - The Eternal Road
1937- Another Dawn (chor) 1939 - Worlds Fair 1939 - Ballet Caravan
1945- on Stage! 1940 - Radio City Music Hall 1939 - Filling Station
1952- Where's Charley (chor)       1941 - Billy in Billy the Kid
$1953- The Band Wagon (chor)       1941 - City Portrait
$1953- It's Always Fair Weather (chor)       1942 - Man from Midian
1954- Knock on Wood (chor)       1945 - Interplay
$1954- 7 Brides for 7 Brothers (chor)       1947 - Finian's Rainbow*
$1955- Guys and Dolls (chor)       1948 - Hold It
$1955- It's Always Fair Weather (Kelly)       Petrouchka (Ballet)
1958- Merry Andrew (directed)       1950 - Arms and the Girl
$1959- Li'l Abner (chor)       1951 - Guys and Dolls*
1968- Star! (chor)       1953 - Can-Can*
$1969- Hello Dolly (chor)       1957 - Lil Abner*
$1975- Smile       1959 - Destry Rides Again*
1978- Movie Movie (danced)       1961 - Wildcat
$1985- That's Dancing       1962 - Subways are for Sleeping
$1989- Skin Deep (danced)       1963 - Here's Love
$1996- Musicals, Great Musicals       1964 - Ben Franklin in Paris
            1965 - Sky Scrapper
            1966 - Breakfast at Tiffany's
            1970 - The Rothschilds
            1973 - Cyrano
            1978 - American Dance Machine
            1980 - The Music Man
            1993 - Good-bye Girl
 

Nightclubs

Television

(Other)

n/a 1954- Schubert Theater 11/1960- Theatre Arts magazine
      1958- Merry Andrew      
      1971- All In The Family      
      1976- Laverne and Shirley      
      1978- Paul Muni Story      
      1991- Everybody Dance Now      
NOTE:
August 14, 2007
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