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Freed was born Arthur Grossman on September 9, 1894, in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before beginning a musical career. His early jobs included playing a piano for a Chicago, Illinois, music publisher, working in vaudeville , and dabbling in songwriting.
Feb 4, 2016 · Bob Hope presents an Honorary Award to Arthur Freed for distinguished service to the Academy and the production of six top-rated Awards telecasts, at the 40t...
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Biography. Popular songwriter--notably in collaboration with Nacio Herb Brown--who joined MGM with the advent of sound and produced virtually every great Hollywood musical of the 1940s and 50s. Freed gathered around him such luminaries as Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Syd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland, and produced classic films ...
Jul 16, 2000 · Arthur Freed, as early as high school, knew he wanted to be a music composer. In the few years leading up to 1920, he worked as a piano demonstrator in Chicago. While there, he was approached by ...
Mar 1, 2018 · When her doctor advised her to take a week off of work, MGM studio chief Arthur Freed told her to go to a different doctor. In her 2013 memoir, Reynolds recalled how Freed instructed her to get ...
Arthur Freed was the preeminent producer of musical films during the "Golden Age" of the MGM Musical. An ambitious man, Freed was born in Charleston, South Carolina into a musical family. He grew up in Seattle, Washington and attended the Phillips Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Nov 15, 2017 · Associate producer Arthur Freed stepped in, telling studio head Louis B. Mayer, “The song stays—or I go,” to which Mayer replied: “Let the boys have the damn song. Put it back in the picture. It can’t hurt.” More than 75 years later, the film and the song by composer Harold Arlen and lyricist Yip Harburg are cultural touchstones.
