Arthur Freed

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AKA: Arthur Grossman
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 09/09/1894
Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Death Date: 04/12/1973

biography

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).

Credits

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1944
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milestones

Year
Milestone
1923 
Hit song writer "I Cried For You"
1929 
Film lyricist MGM
1939 
Associate producer "The Wizard of Oz"
1963 
President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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