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Sammy Lee

Sammy Lee

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!

Crew
  • Cavalcade

    Cavalcade

    Department Directing

    Job Stage Director

    Average Rating
    5.5
    122 votes
    Release Date
    Feb 08, 1933
    94 years ago
  • Abilene Town

    Abilene Town

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    5.1
    23 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 11, 1946
    81 years ago
  • Free and Easy

    Free and Easy

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    6.0
    12 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 22, 1930
    97 years ago
  • Doughboys

    Doughboys

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    6.0
    9 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 30, 1930
    96 years ago
  • Stairway to Light

    Stairway to Light

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    7.0
    9 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 03, 1945
    81 years ago
  • Honolulu

    Honolulu

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    6.1
    7 votes
    Release Date
    Feb 03, 1939
    88 years ago
  • Hot Pepper

    Hot Pepper

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    4.2
    5 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 15, 1933
    94 years ago
  • They Learned About Women

    They Learned About Women

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    4.0
    4 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 30, 1930
    97 years ago
  • Children of Pleasure

    Children of Pleasure

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    4.7
    3 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 26, 1930
    97 years ago
  • Soak the Old

    Soak the Old

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.0
    3 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 24, 1940
    86 years ago
  • Rodeo Dough

    Rodeo Dough

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    5.3
    3 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 09, 1940
    86 years ago
  • The Woman in the House

    The Woman in the House

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.5
    3 votes
    Release Date
    May 09, 1942
    85 years ago
  • The Song Writers' Revue

    The Song Writers' Revue

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    2.5
    2 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 27, 1929
    97 years ago
  • Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga

    Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    3.5
    2 votes
    Release Date
    Sep 02, 1939
    87 years ago
  • New Shoes

    New Shoes

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.0
    2 votes
    Release Date
    Sep 05, 1936
    90 years ago
  • Who's Superstitious?

    Who's Superstitious?

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    5.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 02, 1943
    84 years ago
  • The Film That Was Lost

    The Film That Was Lost

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    8.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 31, 1942
    84 years ago
  • Forgotten Treasure

    Forgotten Treasure

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Jul 24, 1943
    83 years ago

  • Manhattan Serenade

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    4.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 21, 1929
    97 years ago
  • The Greener Hills

    The Greener Hills

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    5.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 01, 1939
    88 years ago
  • Out of Darkness

    Out of Darkness

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 29, 1941
    86 years ago
  • Strange Testament

    Strange Testament

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    5.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 15, 1941
    85 years ago
  • Caravan

    Caravan

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    5.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 30, 1934
    92 years ago
  • It's Great to Be Alive

    It's Great to Be Alive

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    5.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Jul 08, 1933
    94 years ago
  • The Doll Shop

    The Doll Shop

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Sep 28, 1929
    97 years ago
  • Caravane

    Caravane

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 25, 1934
    92 years ago

  • Portrait of a Genius

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 23, 1943
    84 years ago

  • Somewhat Secret

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 29, 1939
    88 years ago
  • Life in the Raw

    Life in the Raw

    Department Crew

    Job Choreographer

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jul 07, 1933
    94 years ago
  • The Hidden Master

    The Hidden Master

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 20, 1940
    87 years ago

  • Men of Steel

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 17, 1938
    88 years ago

  • Some Time Soon

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
  • Beyond Our Own

    Beyond Our Own

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 16, 1947
    79 years ago
  • The Immortal Blacksmith

    The Immortal Blacksmith

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    May 20, 1944
    83 years ago
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