About

Known credits:
33
Birthday:
1890-05-26
Place of birth:
New York, USA
Website:
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Sammy Lee

Overview

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 gave us many of cinema's most entertaining moments!

Known for

Directing
1947 Beyond Our Own Directing Director N/A
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1945 Stairway to Light Directing Director 59
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1943 Forgotten Treasure Directing Director 58
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1943 Portrait of a Genius Directing Director N/A
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1943 Who's Superstitious? Directing Director 59
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1942 The Film That Was Lost Directing Director 59
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1942 The Woman in the House Directing Director 59
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1941 Strange Testament Directing Director 59
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1941 Out of Darkness Directing Director N/A
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1940 Rodeo Dough Directing Director 59
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1940 Soak the Old Directing Director 59
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1940 The Hidden Master Directing Director N/A
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1939 Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga Directing Director 59
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1939 Somewhat Secret Directing Director N/A
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1939 The Greener Hills Directing Director 59
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1938 Men of Steel Directing Director N/A
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1936 New Shoes Directing Director 59
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1933 Cavalcade Directing Stage Director 58
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1929 Manhattan Serenade Directing Director N/A
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1929 The Song Writers' Revue Directing Director 58
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1929 The Doll Shop Directing Director N/A
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Some Time Soon Directing Director N/A
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Crew
1946 Abilene Town Crew Choreographer 58
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1939 Honolulu Crew Choreographer 59
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1934 Caravan Crew Choreographer N/A
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1934 Caravane Crew Choreographer N/A
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1933 It's Great to Be Alive Crew Choreographer 58
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1933 Life in the Raw Crew Choreographer N/A
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1933 Hot Pepper Crew Choreographer 58
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1930 Doughboys Crew Choreographer 59
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1930 Children of Pleasure Crew Choreographer 58
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1930 Free and Easy Crew Choreographer 59
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1930 They Learned About Women Crew Choreographer 58
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