Robert Alton

b. Robert Alton Hart, 28 January 1897, Bennington, Vermont, USA, d. 12 June 1957, Hollywood, California, USA. An especially innovative and stylish choreographer for the musical stage and Hollywood, Alton made an appearance on Broadway being a dancer in Consider It From Me (1919) and Greenwich Community Follies (1924) before staging the dance moments for comedian Joe Make’s last Broadway musical, Keep Your Horses (1933). Thereafter, through the remaining 30s to the first 50s, he choreographed an assortment of revues and musical comedies, among that have been a number of the biggest strikes of your day. They included Ziegfeld Follies (1934), Lifestyle Starts At 8:40 (1934), Anything Runs (1934), Thumbs Up! (1934), Parade (1935), Ziegfeld Follies (1936), Hooray For What! (1937), BETWEEN YOUR Devil (1937), You Hardly ever Know (1938), Keep It IF YOU ASK ME! (1938), One YOUR MONEY CAN BUY (1939), The Roads Of Paris (1939), WAY TOO MANY Young ladies (1939), Du Barry Was A FEMALE (1939), Two For The Present (1940), Panama Hattie (1940), Higher And Higher (1940), Pal Joey (1940), Sons O’ Fun (1941), By Jupiter (1942), Count number Me In (1942), Ziegfeld Follies (1943), Laffing Area Just (1944), Hazel Flagg (1953) and Me And Juliet (1953). Alton also offered as both choreographer and movie director on Early To Bed (1943), the 1952 Broadhurst Theater revival of Pal Joey (with David Alexander), as well as the Vamp (1955). In parallel along with his stage function, Alton made some traditional dance scenes in several highly effective and fondly kept in mind movie musicals, such as for example You’ll Never Obtain Affluent (1941, the ‘Wedding ceremony Cake Walk’ series), The Harvey Women (1946, the Oscar-winning ‘On The Atchison, Topeka, AS WELL AS THE Santa Fe’), Ziegfeld Follies (1946, ‘This Center Of Mine’), VERY GOOD NEWS (1947, with Charles Walters, ‘Varsity Pull’), Easter Parade (1948, ‘The Young lady On The Journal Cover’, ‘Shaking The Blues Away’, ‘A HANDFUL OF Swells’), The Pirate (1948, with Gene Kelly, ‘Become A Clown’), Annie GET A Weapon (1950, ‘I’m An Indian As well’), Show Motorboat (1951, ‘I Might Fall Back again On You’, ‘Existence Upon The Wicked Stage’), and so many more. His additional film credits, mainly for MGM, included Hit Me Red (1936), Bathing Beauty (1944, with Jack port Donohue), Right up until The Clouds Move By (1946), Terms And Music (1948, with Kelly), The Barkleys Of Broadway (1949), In THE NICE Aged Summertime (1949), Pagan Like Music (1950, also aimed), The Belle Of NY (1952), I REALLY LIKE Melvin (1953), Contact Me Madam (1953), White colored Xmas (1954), There’s No Business Like Display Business (1955) and THE LADY Rush (1955). Oftentimes, stars such as for example Kelly and Fred Astaire would stage a number of of the amounts in their very own movies, and there have been other events when extra choreographers were known as in to function alongside Alton, such as for example on There’s No Business Like Present Business, when all Marilyn Monroe’s dance routines had been created by Jack port Cole. Within a mixed and distinguished profession, Allen also aimed Merton Of THE FILMS (1947), the next film remake of Harry Leon Wilson’s endearing book, which starred Crimson Skelton, Virginia O’Brien, Alan Mowbray, Gloria Grahame and Leon Ames.