Vincente Minnelli

Lester Anthony Minnelli was born in Chicago in 1903 into a family that ran a travelling theatre, where he performed from the age of three, then grew up in Ohio. An apprentice window dresser in a Chicago department store, he became art director of Radio City Music Hall and staged revues on Broadway. Joining MGM in 1940, he made thirty-four feature films there from 1943 to 1976, musicals and melodramas, and received the Academy Award for Best Director once. He married Judy Garland in 1945; their daughter Liza was born the following year. He died in Beverly Hills in 1986.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaMeet Me in St. LouisVincente Minnelli · 1944Cinema
• CinemaAn American in ParisVincente Minnelli · 1951Cinema