Busby Berkeley

Busby Berkeley , whose real name William Enos Berkeley, is an American choreographer and director born on November 29, 1895 in Los Angeles and died on March 14, 1976 in Palm Springs.
He mostly left his name to be created in the American musicals of the 1930's, narcotics tables visual playing on the strong contrasts between black and white film.
For the number of dancers, their positions and their timing, the change of scenery to view and scholars games shadows or reflections, Busby Berkeley was able to compose many of his choreography on geometric shapes and transitions sometimes very complex .
His favorite camera movements were made of vertical dives from the ceiling of the highest studios and long clip on dollies.
Travel rapid camera on cables enabled him to begin to plan large and often distant to finish without mounting visible on the details of a face or glitter of a scene.
Sometimes director of second team, he came to overshadow a single table, while the rest of the film, its plot and even its actors stars.
It will, therefore, called to come "racommoder" costly productions that seemed without a strong, doomed to failure.
His past NCO instructor in the U.S. Army can better understand the minutiae of a director who, thanks to an authority often feared, could accommodate the perfection of scholars movements kaléïdoscopiques mixing men, women, accessories and fluorescent moving scenery.
His ability to maximize the constraints of black and white has enabled him to match the greatest directors and be one of the promoters of a style "Art Deco", which will disappear soon with the Technicolor.

Filming in diving total (shooting vertical to 90 °) is appointed, film jargon, "a Busby Berkeley" or "go a Berkeley."
This is indeed an invention of the choreographer.

Filmography / Director

• 1933: She Had to Say Yes
• 1934: Ladies: co-director with Ray Enright
• 1935: Gold Diggers
• 1935: In the scene (Bright Lights)
• 1935: I Live for Love
• 1936: Stage Struck
• 1936: Gold Diggers of 1937: co-director with Lloyd Bacon
• 1937: The Go Getter
• 1937: Hollywood Hotel
• 1938: Men Are such Fools
• 1938: Garden of the Moon
• 1938: Caprice an evening (Comet Over Broadway)
• 1939: I am a criminal (They Made Me a Criminal)
• 1939: My husband still short (Fast and Furious)
• 1939: Place the pace (Babes in Arms)
• 1939: Broadway Serenade by Robert Z. Leonard: completion of the final sequence
• 1940: Forty Little Mothers
• 1940: Forward music (Stripe up the band)
• 1941: The Dancer of the Ziegfeld Follies (Ziegfeld Girl) by Robert Z. Leonard: implementation of music
• 1941: Lady Be Good Norman Z. McLeod: implementation of music
• 1941: Blonde Inspiration
• 1941: Debut on Broadway (Babes on Broadway)
• 1942: For me and my mie (For Me and My Gal)
• 1943: Banana Split (The Gang's All Here)
• 1946: Cinderella Jones
• 1949: Match love (Take Me Out to the Ball Game)
• 2008: anonyme participation to Busby

Choreographer

• 932: Girl Crazy William A. Seiter, uncredited in generic
• 1933: 42nd Street (42nd Street) Lloyd Bacon
• 1933: Chercheuses gold in 1933 (Gold diggers of 1933)
• 1933: Footlight Parade Lloyd Bacon
• 1939: The Wizard of Oz (The Wizard of Oz) by Victor Fleming: choreographer of a dance sequence of the scarecrow, not taken the final assembly; uncredited in generic
• 1943: Girl Crazy: the realization replaced by Norman Taurog, choreographer number I got Rhythm
• 1948: Romance in Rio (Romance on the High Seas)
• 1951: Les Coulisses Broadway (Two tickets to Broadway) by James V. Kern
• 1952: The First siren (Million Dollar Mermaid) Mervyn LeRoy
• 1953: The Happy Prisoner (Small Town Girl) László Kardos
• 1962: More beautiful girl in the world (Billy Rose's Jumbo) by Charles Walters

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