
Sammy Lee
Sammy Lee will best be remembered for his great contributions as Dance Director of many important musicals during Hollywood's golden age. He first achieved fame in New York as dance director of the highly successful Ziegfeld Follies of 1927. After contributing dance routines for Ziegfeld's famous productions "Showboat", "Rio Rita", and the last of the "Midnight Frolics", he signed with MGM studios early in 1929. His imaginative dance routines included overhead shots a year before Buzby Berkeley's work in "Whoopee". He brought the prestige of the Ziegfeld image to MGM's early musical talkies. Sammy Lee was nominated twice for an academy award for best dance direction, in 1935 for "King Of Burlesque", and 1937 for "Ali Baba Goes To Town", both at 20th Century Fox. He would return to MGM after a stint at RKO (1937) and directed shorts and choreographed war time musicals. Smaller studios benefited from his talents in 1944 and 1945. During this time he choreographed Columbia's "Carolina Blues" and Republic's "Earl Carroll's Vanities" before he retired with Paramount's 1945 release, "Out Of This World". Sammy Lee's productive career spanned an impressive sixteen years in Hollywood, and gave us many of cinema's most entertaining moments!
- Known ForDirecting
- Born26 May 1890 (age 135)
- Place of BirthNew York, USA
Sammy Lee

- Known ForDirecting
- Born26 May 1890 (age 135)
- Place of BirthNew York, USA

Beyond Our Own
1947

Stairway to Light
1945

The Immortal Blacksmith
1944
Portrait of a Genius
1943

Who's Superstitious?
1943

Forgotten Treasure
1943

The Woman in the House
1942

The Film That Was Lost
1942

Out of Darkness
1941

Strange Testament
1941

Soak the Old
1940

Rodeo Dough
1940

The Hidden Master
1940

Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939
Somewhat Secret
1939

The Greener Hills
1939
Men of Steel
1938

New Shoes
1936

The Doll Shop
1929

The Song Writers' Revue
1929
