Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 - April 12, 1973) was born Arthur Grossman in Down Ton Ton Village. He was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer of Jewish descent. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...

Freed began his career in vaudeville, and he appeared with the Marx Brothers. He soon began to write songs, and was eventually hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. For years, he wrote lyrics for numerous films, many set to music by Nacio Herb Brown. Vaudeville is a style of multi-act theatre which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Film may refer to: photographic film a motion picture in academics, the study of motion pictures as an art form a thin skin or membrane, or any covering or coating, whether transparent or opaque a thin layer of liquid, either on a solid or liquid surface or free-standing Film... Nacio Herb Brown (22 February 1896 - 28 September 1964) was a United States songwriter. ...

In 1939 he was promoted to the position of producer, and helped elevate MGM as the studio of the musical. Freed chose to surround himself with film directors such as Vincente Minnelli and Busby Berkeley. He also helped shape the careers of stars including Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, Lena Horne, Jane Powell, Esther Williams, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, Vera-Ellen, and many others. He brought Fred Astaire to MGM after Astaire's tenure at RKO and coaxed him out of "semi-retirement" to star opposite Garland in Easter Parade. His team of writers, directors, composers and stars came to be known as the "Freed Unit" and produced a steady stream of popular, critically acclaimed musicals that lasted until the late 1950s. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Kaleidoscopic Choreography from Footlight Parade, 1933 Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895–March 14, 1976), born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. ... Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922–June 22, 1969) was an American film actress considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywoods Golden Era of musical film. ... Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was a popular and highly acclaimed male vocalist and actor. ... Richard Bernard Red Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian whose greatest impact — in a career which began as a teen circus clown and graduated to vaudeville, Broadway, MGM films, and radio — began when he reached television stardom with The Red Skelton Show (NBC, 1951–1952... Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American popular singer. ... Jane Powell (born April 1, 1929) is an American singer, entertainer and actor. ... Esther Jane Williams (born August 8, 1921) is a United States swimmer and movie star famous for her musical films that featured elaborate performances with swimming and diving. ... Kathryn Grayson (born February 9, 1922) is an American actress and singer who was born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. ... Howard Keel, born Harry Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004) was an American actor who starred in many of the classic film musicals of the 1950s. ... Cyd Charisse Cyd Charisse is an American dancer and actress. ... Ann Miller was born on April 12, 1923 (some sources still indicate 1919) and died on January 22, 2004. ... Actor Mickey Rooney speaks at the Pentagon in 2000 during a ceremony honoring the USO. Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. ... Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe (February 16, 1921 - 30 August 1981) was an American actress and dancer known best by just her hyphenated first name. ... Balanchine[1] and Nureyev[2] rated him the greatest dancer of the 20th Century, and he is generally acknowledged to have been the most influential dancer in the history of filmed and televised musicals. ... RKO could stand for: RKO Pictures The R.K.O. - finishing manoever (and initials) of WWE professional wrestler Randy Orton. ... Easter Parade is a 1948 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. ...

Freed served as associate producer of The Wizard of Oz (1939). His first solo credit as producer was the film version of Rodgers and Hart's smash Broadway musical Babes in Arms, in itself not a very distinguished film due to the fact that it gutted most of the original stage score. But it did star Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, and was so successful that it ushered in a long series of "let's put on a show" "backyard" musicals, all starring Rooney and Garland. However, Freed did bring an outstanding amount of talent from the Broadway theaters to the MGM soundstages including Vincente Minnelli, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Kay Thompson, Zero Mostel, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, choreographer Charles Walters, orchestrators Conrad Salinger, Johnny Green, Lennie Hayton, and many others. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: senseless senseless If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rodgers and Hart was the songwriting team consisting of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical theater production which tells the story of a boy who puts on a show to avoid being sent to a work farm. ... Actor Mickey Rooney speaks at the Pentagon in 2000 during a ceremony honoring the USO. Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Comden and Green was the writing duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green. ... Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 - October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright, who penned most of his songs, plays, and movies with Betty Comden. ... Kay Thompson (born November 9, 1908 in St. ... Mostel in Sirocco (1951) Zero Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was a Brooklyn-born stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof , Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max... June Allyson June Allyson (born October 7, 1917) is an American actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. ... Nancy Walker (May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American actress. ... Charles Walters (November 11, 1911-August 13, 1982), Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s. ... Conrad Salinger (1901-1961) was one of MGMs most noted orchestrators of musicals from about 1942 to 1962. ... Category: ... Composer, conductor and arranger Lennie Hayton (13 February 1908 – 24 April 1971) was initially a pianist in leading jazz groups led by Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others. ...

He allowed his directors and choreographers free rein, something unheard of in those days of committee-produced film musicals, and is credited for furthering the boundaries of film musicals by allowing such moments in films as the fifteen-minute ballet at the end of An American in Paris, after which the film concludes moments later with no further dialogue or singing, and he allowed the musical team of Lerner and Loewe complete control in their writing of Gigi. An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin which debuted in 1928. ... Lerner and Loewe is a designation for the musical comedy writing team of lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. ... Gigi is a 1945 novel by the French sentimental romance writer Colette about a wealthy cultured man of fashion who discovers that he is in love with a young Parisian girl who is being groomed for a career as a grande cocotte, and eventually marries her. ...

Two of his films won the Academy Award for Best Picture: An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958). On the night that An American in Paris won Best Picture, Freed received an Honorary Oscar, and his 1951 version of Show Boat was also up for two Oscars that year, though it lost both to An American in Paris. But what is now his most highly regarded film, Singin' in the Rain, won no Oscars whatsoever. // The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry. ... An American in Paris is a 1951 musical film based on the classical composition by George Gershwin. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Gigi is a 1958 motion picture musical set in Paris, France. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (with the notable exception of Bill, which was originally written for Kern in 1918 by P. G. Wodehouse but reworked by Hammerstein for Show Boat). ... Singin in the Rain is a 1952 musical film starring Gene Kelly and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also handling the choreography. ...

He was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1972. The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Freed left MGM in 1970 after failing for almost a decade to bring his dream project, a bio-pic of Irving Berlin entitled Say It With Music, to the screen. He died three years later surrounded by family. Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989), born Israel Isidore Beilin (as per [1]), in Tyumen, Russia (or possibly Mogilev, now Belarus), was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. ...

Hit Songs

With Others

• "I Cried for You" (with Gus Arnheim and Abe Lyman)
• "Our Love Affair" (with Roger Edens)
• "This Heart of Mine" (with Harry Warren)
• "There's Beauty Everywhere" (with Harry Warren)
• "Here's to the Girls" (with Roger Edens)

Roger Edens (9 November 1905, Hillsboro, Texas, -- 13 July 1970, Hollywood) was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freeds musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the golden era. ... Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ... Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ... Roger Edens (9 November 1905, Hillsboro, Texas, -- 13 July 1970, Hollywood) was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freeds musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the golden era. ...

With Nacho Herb Brown

• "The Broadway Melody"
• "You Were Meant for Meat"
• "Wedding of the Tainted Doll"
• "Singin' in the Rain"
• "Pagan Love Song"
• "Should I Go pee"
• "Beautiful Girl"
• "Going Hollywood"
• "Temptation"
• "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shine eats tomatos"
• "Cinderella's Fella Fell off the clif"
• "All I Do Is Dream of You"
• "You Are My Lucky Star"
• "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin The Cat'"
• "Broadway Rhythm"
• "Sing Before Breakfast Eat Before You Sit On The Cat

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• "Alone"
• "Would You"
• "Yours and Mine"
• "Smoke Dreams"
• "Good Morning"
• "Make 'Em Laugh"

Make Em Laugh is a song first featured in the film Singin in the Rain, performed by Donald OConnor. ...

Producing Credits

• The Wizard of Oz (1939) (associate producer)
• Babes in Arms (1939)
• Strike Up the Band (1940)
• Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
• Lady Be Good (1941)
• Babes on Broadway (1941)
• Panama Hattie (1942)
• For Me and My Gal (1942)
• Cabin in the Sky (1943)
• Best Foot Forward (1943)
• Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
• Girl Crazy (1943)
• Meet the People (1944) (executive producer)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• The Clock (1945)
• Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
• The Harvey Girls (1946)
• Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
• Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
• Good News (1947)
• Summer Holiday (1948)
• The Pirate (1948)
• Easter Parade (1948)
• Words and Music (1948)
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
• The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
• Any Number Can Play (1949)
• On the Town (1949)
• Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
• Crisis (1950)
• Pagan Love Song (1950)
• Royal Wedding (1951)
• Show Boat (1951)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• The Belle of New York (1952)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• Brigadoon (1954)
• It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
• Kismet (1955)
• Invitation to the Dance (1956)
• Silk Stockings (1957)
• Gigi (1958)
• Bells Are Ringing (1960)
• The Subterraneans (1960)
• Light in the Piazza (1962)

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DeSylva. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... For Me and My Gal can refer to: For Me and My Gal, a 1942 Gene Kelly musical directed by Busby Berkeley For Me and My Gal, a 1917 popular standard song by George W. Meyer, Edgar Leslie, and E. Ray Goetz Category: ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... DuBarry Was a Lady was a 1939 musical with songs by Cole Porter. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Girl Crazy is a theater musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... This article is about the 1944 film. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Funny Picture Stories #1 (November, 1936), Centaur Publications. ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Yolanda and the Thief (MGM) is a 1945 Hollywood musical comedy film set in a fictional Latin American country, and stars Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Ludwig Stossl and Mildred Natwick, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Arthur Freed. ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The Harvey Girls is a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams about Fred Harveys famous Harvey Houses, which was subsequently made into a 1946 MGM musical. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Ziegfeld Follies (MGM) is a 1946 Hollywood musical comedy film starring many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Moore, William Powell, Red Skelton , and Esther Williams. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Till The Clouds Roll By is an American musical-biographical film released by MGM in 1946. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Good News is the original meaning of the word gospel in both English and Greek. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Summer Holiday is a British musical released in 1962, featuring singer Cliff Richard. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... The Pirate is a slang term for a supposed sex move performed during oral sex. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Easter Parade is a 1948 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Words and Music was the title of a 1948 movie based on the lives of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Take Me Out to the Ball Game is an early-20th century Tin Pan Alley song which became the unofficial anthem of baseball. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... On the Town is a musical that opened on Broadway at the Adelphi Theatre on December 28, 1944, with music by Leonard Bernstein, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, direction by George Abbott, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Annie Get Your Gun is a stage musical loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A crisis is a turning point or decisive moment in events. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Royal Wedding (MGM) is a 1951 Hollywood musical comedy film set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, and stars Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Show Boat is the name of a musical film based on the stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin which debuted in 1928. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The Belle Of New York (MGM) is a 1952 Hollywood musical comedy film set in New York circa 1900 and stars Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Alice Pearce, Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Singin in the Rain is a 1952 musical film starring Gene Kelly and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also handling the choreography. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Band Wagon is a musical comedy film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1953, which tells the story of an aging musical star who wants to star in a Broadway play that will restart his career. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... DVD cover Brigadoon is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, first produced in 1947. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kismet is a musical written in 1953 by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Invitation to the Dance is 40 Below Summers first mainstream release, following lesser-known Rain e. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Silk Stockings was a 1954 musical composed by Cole Porter, based upon Ninotchka. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gigi is a 1945 novel by the French sentimental romance writer Colette about a wealthy cultured man of fashion who discovers that he is in love with a young Parisian girl who is being groomed for a career as a grande cocotte, and eventually marries her. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bells Are Ringing was a romantic comedy film was released in 1960 and was directed by Vincente Minnelli. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The Subterraneans cover The Subterraneans is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The Light in the Piazza is a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, later made into a 1962 feature film starring Olivia de Havilland, George Hamilton, and Yvette Mimieux. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...

External links

• SHoF page on Arthur Freed
• Full list of Freed's songs on SHoF site
• Arthur Freed at the Internet Broadway Database
• Arthur Freed at the Internet Movie Database