AKA: Arthur Grossman
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 09/09/1894
Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Death Date: 04/12/1973
Popular songwriter--notably in collaboration with Nacio Herb Brown--who joined MGM with the advent of sound and produced virtually every great Hollywood musical of the 1940s and 50s. Freed gathered around him such luminaries as Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Syd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland, and produced classic films including the all-black "Cabin in the Sky" (1943), "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), "On The Town" (1949), "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) and "Silk Stockings" (1957).
1923
Hit song writer "I Cried For You"
1939
Associate producer "The Wizard of Oz"
1963
President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
