Identité
Genre : homme
État civil :
- Samuel Levy
Fonctions : Chorégraphe, Réalisateur, Scénariste
Biographie
Carrière :
Chorégraphe à Broadway des célèbres Ziegfeld Follies en 1927, Sammy Lee rejoint Hollywood en 1929, où il s'illustre pendant dix ans en signant les numéros de danse de nombreuses comédies musicales. Son travail lui vaut d'être cité à deux reprises aux Oscars pour King of burlesque (Sidney Lanfield, 1936) et Ali Baba goes to town (David Butler, 1937).Filmographie
Courts métrages
Réalisation
- 1929 - The Doll Shop
- 1929 - The Song Writers' Revue
- 1929 - Manhattan Serenade
- 1931 - Ambitious People
- 1936 - New Shoes
- 1937 - Some Time Soon
- 1938 - Men of Steel
- 1939 - Somewhat Secret
- 1939 - Romance of the Potato
- 1939 - Rhumba Rhythm
- 1939 - The Greener Hills
- 1940 - Soak the Old
- 1940 - Rodeo Dough
- 1940 - The Hidden Master
- 1941 - The Man Who Changed the World
- 1941 - Strange Testament
- 1941 - Out of Darkness
- 1942 - The Film That Was Lost
- 1942 - The Woman in the House
- 1942 - Brief Interval
- 1943 - Who's Superstitious ?
- 1943 - Forgotten Treasure
- 1943 - Portrait of a Genius
- 1944 - The Immortal Blacksmith
- 1945 - Stairway to Light
- 1947 - Beyond Our Own
- 1949 - Snowtime Jubilee
Chorégraphe
- 1931 - Ambitious People
- 1933 - Roast-Beef and Movies
- 1933 - Nertsery Rhymes
- 1933 - Jailbirds of Paradise
- 1934 - The Big Idea
- 1937 - Heidi
Scénariste
- 1936 - New Shoes
Longs métrages
Chorégraphe
- 1929 - The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- 1929 - It's a Great Life
- 1930 - Woman Racket
- 1930 - Doughboys
- 1930 - Men of the North
- 1930 - Children of Pleasure
- 1930 - The Lady of Scandal
- 1930 - They Learned about Women
- 1930 - Lord Byron of Broadway
- 1930 - Love in the Rough
- 1930 - Free and Easy
- 1930 - Good News
- 1930 - Those Three French Girls
- 1930 - Monsieur Le Fox
- 1930 - Chasing Rainbows
- 1930 - Estrellados
- 1930 - A Lady's Morals
- 1931 - Monsieur Le Fox
- 1932 - Jenny Lind
- 1933 - Life in the Raw
- 1933 - My Lips Betray
- 1933 - Hot Pepper
- 1933 - I Am Suzanne
- 1933 - Cavalcade
- 1933 - Adorable
- 1933 - Arizona to Broadway
- 1933 - Dancing Lady
- 1933 - It's Great to Be Alive
- 1933 - Broadway to Hollywood
- 1934 - Transatlantic Merry-go-round
- 1934 - She Learned About Sailors
- 1934 - Caravan
- 1934 - Baby Take a Bow
- 1934 - Stand Up and Cheer !
- 1934 - Bright Eyes
- 1934 - Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Nights in Hollywood
- 1934 - Call It Luck
- 1934 - Caravane
- 1935 - Piernas de seda
- 1935 - King of Burlesque
- 1935 - Dante's Inferno
- 1935 - Hooray for Love
- 1936 - Under Your Spell
- 1936 - Star for a Night
- 1936 - Can This Be Dixie
- 1937 - The Life of the Party
- 1937 - New Faces of 1937
- 1937 - Ali Baba Goes to Town
- 1939 - Honolulu
- 1940 - Hullaballoo
- 1940 - The House Across the Bay
- 1941 - Washington Melodrama
- 1942 - Jackass Mail
- 1942 - Hit the Ice
- 1942 - Born to Sing
- 1942 - Cairo
- 1944 - Maisie Goes to Reno
- 1944 - Meet the People
- 1944 - Two Girls and a Sailor
- 1944 - Carolina Blues
- 1945 - Out of this World
- 1945 - Abilene Town
- 1945 - Earl Carroll Vanities
Bibliographie éditoriale
- Site Internet : Page concernant le chorégraphe Sammy Lee. - en anglais