Vincente Minnelli (born Lester Anthony Minnelli; February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American
stage director
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and film director. He directed the classic
movie musicals ''
Meet Me in St. Louis
''Meet Me in St. Louis'' is a 1944 American Christmas film, Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith famil ...
'' (1944), ''
An American in Paris
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'' (1951), ''
The Band Wagon
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'' (1953), and ''
Gigi'' (1958). ''An American in Paris'' and ''Gigi'' both won the
Academy Award for Best Picture
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, with Minnelli winning
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* BA ...
for ''Gigi''. In addition to having directed some of the best known musicals of his day, Minnelli made many
comedies
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and
melodramas.
[Obituary '']Variety
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* Variety show, in theater and television
Films
* ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont
* ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...
'', July 30, 1986. He was married to
Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. While critically acclaimed for many different roles throughout her career, she is widely known for playing the part of Dorothy Gale in '' The ...
from 1945 until 1951; the couple were the parents of
Liza Minnelli.
Early life
Lester Anthony Minnelli was born on February 28, 1903, to Marie Émilie Odile Lebeau and Vincent Charles Minnelli. He was baptized in Chicago, and was the youngest of four known sons, only two of whom survived to adulthood. His mother's stage name was Mina Gennell, and his father was the
musical conductor of Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater.
His mother was born in Chicago and was of
French-Canadian descent with a probability of
Anishinaabe
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lineage through her mother, who was born on
Mackinac Island, Michigan
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.
The family toured small towns primarily in
Ohio
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,
Indiana
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and
Illinois
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, before settling in
Delaware, Ohio
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.
His paternal grandfather, Vincenzo Minnelli, and great-uncle, Domenico Minnelli, both
Sicilian revolutionaries
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...
, were forced to leave
Sicily
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after the collapse of the provisional Sicilian government that arose from the
1848 revolution against
Ferdinand II and Bourbon rule. Domenico Minnelli had been Vice-Chancellor of the Gran Corte Civile in
Palermo at the time he helped organize the January 12, 1848, uprising there. After the Bourbon return to power Vincenzo reportedly hid in the
catacombs of Palermo for 18 months before being successfully smuggled onto a New York-bound fruit
steamer.
While traveling as a piano demonstrator for
Knabe Pianos, Vincenzo met his future wife Nina Picket during a stop in
Delaware, Ohio
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. Vincenzo was a
music teacher
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and composer. Both the
U.S. Library of Congress
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and the
Newberry Library in Chicago have Vincenzo (aka Vincent) Minnelli compositions in their collections.
Career
Following his high school graduation, Minnelli moved to Chicago, where he lived briefly with his maternal grandmother and an aunt. His first job was at
Marshall Field's
Marshall Field & Company (commonly known as Marshall Field's) was an upscale department store in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in the 19th century, it grew to become a large chain before Macy's, Inc acquired it in 2005. Its eponymous founder, Mar ...
department store
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as a
window dresser
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. He later worked as a photographer for Paul Stone, who specialized in photographing actors from
Chicago's theater district. His interest in the theater grew and he was greatly interested in art and immersed himself in books on the subject. Minnelli's first job in the theater was at the
Chicago Theatre
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where he worked as a
costume
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The term also was tradition ...
and
set designer
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.
Owned by
Balaban and Katz
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, the theater chain soon merged with a bigger national chain of
Paramount-Publix
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and Minnelli sometimes found himself assigned to work on shows in New York City. He soon left Chicago and rented a tiny
Greenwich Village
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apartment. He was eventually employed at
Radio City Music Hall shortly after its 1932 opening as a set designer and worked his way up to stage director – he was also tasked to serve as a color consultant for the original interior design of the
Rainbow Room
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.
After leaving Radio City Music Hall, the first play Minnelli directed was a
musical revue
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for the
Shuberts
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titled ''
At Home Abroad
''At Home Abroad'' is a revue with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. It introduced the songs "Love Is a Dancing Thing", "What a Wonderful World" and "Got a Bran' New Suit", among others. The revue follows a bored couple who fl ...
'' which opened in October 1935 and starred
Beatrice Lillie,
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her no ...
, and
Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's top dancing stars du ...
. The revue was well received and enjoyed a two-year run. Minnelli later worked on ''
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936'', ''
Hooray for What!
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'', ''
Very Warm for May
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'', and ''The Show is On''. Minnelli's reputation grew and he was offered a job at
MGM
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in 1940 by producer
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 – April 12, 1973) was an American lyricist and Hollywood film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture twice, in 1951 for '' An American in Paris'' and in 1958 for '' Gigi''. Both films were musicals. ...
.
With his background in theatre, Minnelli was known as an
auteur
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who always brought his stage experience to his films. The first film that he directed, ''
Cabin in the Sky'' (1943), was visibly influenced by the theater. Shortly after that, he directed ''
I Dood It
''I Dood It'' (UK title ''By Hook or by Crook'') is a 1943 American musical-comedy film starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay is by Fred Saidy and Sig Herzig ...
'' (also 1943) with
Red Skelton
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and ''
Meet Me in St. Louis
''Meet Me in St. Louis'' is a 1944 American Christmas film, Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith famil ...
'' (1944), during which he fell in love with the film's star,
Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. While critically acclaimed for many different roles throughout her career, she is widely known for playing the part of Dorothy Gale in '' The ...
. They had first met on the set of ''
Strike Up the Band'' (1940), a
Busby Berkeley
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film for which Minnelli was asked to design a musical sequence performed by Garland and
Mickey Rooney. They began a
courtship
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that eventually led to their marriage in June 1945. Their one child together,
Liza Minnelli, grew up to become an
Academy Award
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-winning actress and singer. The Minnelli family is thus unique in that father, mother and child all won
Oscars
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.
Known as the director of
musicals, including ''
An American in Paris
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'' (1951), ''
Brigadoon
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'' (1954), ''
Kismet'' (1955), and ''
Gigi'' (1958), he also directed comedies and melodramas, including ''
Madame Bovary
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'' (1949), ''
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'' (1950), ''
The Bad and the Beautiful
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'' (1952), ''
The Long, Long Trailer
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'' (1954), ''
Lust for Life'' (1956), ''
Designing Woman
''Designing Woman'' is a 1957 American Metrocolor romantic comedy film, in CinemaScope, about two young, whirlwind-romanced newlywed professionals and their misadventures in adjusting to each other's lifestyles. Vincente Minnelli directed the fi ...
'' (1957), and ''
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
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The series is about a widower, Tom Corbett (played by Bill Bixby), who is a ...
'' (1963). His last film was ''
A Matter of Time'' (1976).
During the course of his career he directed seven different actors in
Oscar
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-nominated performances:
Spencer Tracy
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,
Gloria Grahame
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Despite a featured role in ''It's a Wond ...
,
Kirk Douglas,
Anthony Quinn
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,
Arthur Kennedy,
Shirley MacLaine and
Martha Hyer
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. Grahame and Quinn won. Minnelli received an Oscar nomination as
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* BA ...
for ''
An American in Paris
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'' (1951) and later won the Best Director Oscar for ''
Gigi'' (1958). According to
Peter Bart
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in his book ''The Gross'', Minnelli's films having 11 first-place finishes on
Variety's opening release box office rankings.
He was awarded France's highest civilian honor, Commandeur of the
Legion of Honor, only weeks before his death in 1986.
Minnelli's critical reputation has known a certain amount of fluctuation, being admired (or dismissed) in America as a "pure stylist" who, in
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic. He was a leading proponent of the auteur theory of film criticism.
Early life
Sarris was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Greek immigrant parents, Themis (née Katav ...
' words, "believes more in beauty than in art."
Alan Jay Lerner (of
Lerner and Loewe
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) described Minnelli as, "the greatest director of motion picture musicals the screen has ever seen."
His work reached a height of
critical
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attention during the late 1950s and early 1960s in France with extensive studies in the ''
Cahiers du Cinéma'' magazine, especially in the articles by
Jean Douchet
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and Jean Domarchi, who saw in him "a cinematic visionary obsessed with beauty and harmony", and "an artist who could give substance to the world of dreams". Minnelli served as a juror at the
1967 Cannes Film Festival. The MGM
compilation film
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''
That's Entertainment!
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'' showed clips from many of his films.
On February 8, 1960, Minnelli received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry at 6676
Hollywood Boulevard
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.
Personal life
Minnelli's marriages were as follows:
*
Judy Garland
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(June 15, 1945 – March 29, 1951), the marriage ended in divorce – one child,
Liza May Minnelli (born 1946)
* Georgette Magnani (February 1, 1954 – January 1, 1958), the marriage ended in divorce – one child, Christiane Nina Minnelli (born 1955)
* Danica ("Denise") Radosavljević Gay Giulianelli de Gigante (January 15, 1962 – August 1, 1971), the marriage ended in divorce
* Margaretta Lee Anderson (April 1, 1980 – July 25, 1986), his fourth and final marriage; they remained married for six years until Minnelli's death in 1986. She died in 2009 at the age of 100.
For years, there was speculation in the entertainment community that Minnelli was gay or
bisexual
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.
A biography by
Emanuel Levy
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, ''Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer'', claims evidence that Minnelli did, in fact, live as an openly gay man in New York prior to his arrival in Hollywood, where the town that made him a film legend also pressured him back into the closet.
According to Levy: "He was openly gay in New York – we were able to document names of companions and stories from
Dorothy Parker
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. But when he came to Hollywood, I think he made the decision to repress that part of himself or to become bisexual."
Lester Gaba
Lester Gaba (1907 – 12 August 1987) was an American sculptor, writer and retail display designer.
Early life
Gaba was born in Hannibal, Missouri. His parents owned a general store, but Gaba took no interest in the shop, spending most of the ...
, a retail display designer who knew Minnelli in New York, was reported to have frequently claimed having an affair with Minnelli, although the same person who related Gaba's claim also admitted that Gaba "was known to embellish quite a bit." Minnelli reportedly had an affair with
Lena Horne while making ''
Cabin in the Sky''.
He had a
pacemaker fitted on Christmas in 1982.
Death
Minnelli died in his
Beverly Hills
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home, on July 25, 1986, aged 83, of
emphysema and
pneumonia
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, which had caused him to be repeatedly hospitalized in his final year. He reportedly also suffered from
Alzheimer's disease. He is interred in
Forest Lawn Memorial Park in
Glendale, California
Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley and Verdugo Mountains regions of Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, up from ...
.
Minnelli left an estate valued at slightly over US$1.1 million, the bulk of which was left to his daughter, Liza. He bequeathed US$100,000 and his home in Beverly Hills to his widow.
Filmography
Theatre credits
Published works
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See also
References
Further reading
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* McElhaney, Joe. ''The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli''. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.
* McElhaney, Joe (ed). ''Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment''. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009.
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External links
Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database*
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Vincente Minnelli papers Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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