Sammy Lee

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!

  • Title: Sammy Lee
  • Popularity: 0.632
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1890-05-26
  • Place of Birth: New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Samuel Levy
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Sammy Lee Movies

  • 1929
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    The Doll Shop

    The Doll Shop

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1930
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    Children of Pleasure

    Children of Pleasure

    4.7 1930 HD

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    The Song Writers' Revue

    The Song Writers' Revue

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1946
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    Abilene Town

    Abilene Town

    5.2 1946 HD

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  • 1940
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    Soak the Old

    Soak the Old

    6 1940 HD

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  • 1934
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    Caravane

    Caravane

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1940
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    Rodeo Dough

    Rodeo Dough

    5.3 1940 HD

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  • 1943
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    Portrait of a Genius

    Portrait of a Genius

    1 1943 HD

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  • 1939
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    Honolulu

    Honolulu

    6.1 1939 HD

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  • 1930
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    Doughboys

    Doughboys

    6 1930 HD

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    Free and Easy

    Free and Easy

    6.1 1930 HD

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  • 1942
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    The Woman in the House

    The Woman in the House

    6.5 1942 HD

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  • 1943
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    Who's Superstitious?

    Who's Superstitious?

    5 1943 HD

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  • 1939
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    Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga

    Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga

    3.5 1939 HD

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  • 1942
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    The Film That Was Lost

    The Film That Was Lost

    8 1942 HD

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  • 1943
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    Forgotten Treasure

    Forgotten Treasure

    6 1943 HD

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  • 1936
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    New Shoes

    New Shoes

    6 1936 HD

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  • 1930
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    They Learned About Women

    They Learned About Women

    4 1930 HD

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    Somewhat Secret

    Somewhat Secret

    1 1939 HD

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  • 1933
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    Cavalcade

    Cavalcade

    5.491 1933 HD

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    Life in the Raw

    Life in the Raw

    1 1933 HD

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    Hot Pepper

    Hot Pepper

    4.5 1933 HD

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  • 1929
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    Manhattan Serenade

    Manhattan Serenade

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1945
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    Stairway to Light

    Stairway to Light

    5.8 1945 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Greener Hills

    The Greener Hills

    5 1939 HD

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  • 1941
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    Out of Darkness

    Out of Darkness

    1 1941 HD

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    Strange Testament

    Strange Testament

    5 1941 HD

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  • 1940
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    The Hidden Master

    The Hidden Master

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1938
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    Men of Steel

    Men of Steel

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1934
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    Caravan

    Caravan

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1970
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    Some Time Soon

    Some Time Soon

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1933
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    It's Great to Be Alive

    It's Great to Be Alive

    5 1933 HD

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  • 1947
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    Beyond Our Own

    Beyond Our Own

    1 1947 HD

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