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Vincente Minnelli

Born February 28, 1903 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died July 25, 1986 · aged 83

Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), The Band Wagon (1953), and An American in Paris (1951). An American in Paris and Gigi both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Minnelli winning Best Director for Gigi. In addition to having directed some of the …

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An American in Paris

An American in Paris · 1951

An American in Paris

MovieMusicRomance

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful · 1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

MovieDramaRomance

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Gigi

MovieComedyRomance

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride · 1950

Father of the Bride

MovieComedyRomance

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

The Pirate

The Pirate · 1948

MovieMusicRomance

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.

Lust for Life

Lust for Life · 1956

MovieDramaHistory

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis · 1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

MovieComedyDrama

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Till the Clouds Roll By

Till the Clouds Roll By · 1946

Till the Clouds Roll By

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

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An American in Paris

An American in Paris · 1951

An American in Paris

MovieMusicRomance

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

Director

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful · 1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

MovieDramaRomance

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Director

Gigi

MovieComedyRomance

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

Director

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride · 1950

Father of the Bride

MovieComedyRomance

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

Director

The Pirate

The Pirate · 1948

MovieMusicRomance

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.

Director

Lust for Life

Lust for Life · 1956

MovieDramaHistory

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Director

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis · 1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

MovieComedyDrama

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Director

Till the Clouds Roll By

Till the Clouds Roll By · 1946

Till the Clouds Roll By

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

Co-Director

The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon · 1953

MovieComedyRomance

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Director

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary · 1949

MovieDramaRomance

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

Director

Father's Little Dividend

Father's Little Dividend · 1951

Father's Little Dividend

MovieRomanceComedy

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

Director

The Clock

The Clock · 1945

MovieRomanceDrama

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

Director

Some Came Running

Some Came Running · 1958

Some Came Running

MovieDramaRomance

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.

Director

Brigadoon

Brigadoon · 1954

MovieMusicFantasy

Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.

Director

Home from the Hill

Home from the Hill · 1960

Home from the Hill

MovieDramaRomance

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

Director

Ziegfeld Follies

Ziegfeld Follies · 1945

Ziegfeld Follies

MovieMusicComedy

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Director

The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper · 1965

MovieDramaRomance

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

Director

Two Weeks in Another Town

Two Weeks in Another Town · 1962

Two Weeks in Another Town

After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.

Director

The Story of Three Loves

The Story of Three Loves · 1953

The Story of Three Loves

MovieDramaRomance

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

Director

Undercurrent

Undercurrent · 1946

MovieDramaThriller

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.

Director

Designing Woman

Designing Woman · 1957

Designing Woman

MovieComedyRomance

A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.

Director

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever · 1970

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

MovieFantasyRomance

Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.

Director

The Long, Long Trailer

The Long, Long Trailer · 1954

The Long, Long Trailer

MovieComedyRomance

A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.

Director

Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy · 1956

Tea and Sympathy

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

Director