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- Throughout his years at MGM, he built a production unit of trusted cast and crew members—dubbed the “Freed Unit”—which he used repeatedly to make his films and which boasted some of the most durable names in film musicals: directors Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen, actors Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, and Gene Kelly, and writers Adolph Green and Betty Comden, among others.
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Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 – April 12, 1973) [1] was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture twice, in 1951 for An American in Paris and in 1958 for Gigi. Both films were musicals, and both were directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Aug 21, 2024 · Temple wrote in her autobiography that on her first visit to MGM, she met one of the studio’s producers, Arthur Freed. During a private meeting, Freed unzipped his trousers and exposed himself to her, saying, “I have something made just for you.”
Sep 5, 2024 · Arthur Freed was an American film producer who reshaped the visual style and narrative structure of the musical comedy genre. Freed attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, before embarking on his musical career.
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Freed's first major success came in 1923, when he wrote "I Cried For You" with Gus Arnheim and Abe Lyman. After a few years of touring the nightclub circuit and staging some plays in Los Angeles, Freed joined MGM as a lyricist, and was assigned to work with his former collaborator, Brown.
Some worked exclusively for Freed while others made films for outside producers as well, but all did work under the Freed Unit banner that ranks with their best. The composer Roger Edens became Freed's trusted colleague and associate producer, while Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen, Busby Berkeley, and Charles Walters were among the Unit's ...
Dec 30, 2021 · Donen and Kelly duly asked MGM’s Arthur Freed, whose catalogue provided most of the other numbers, to write a new song. “Like his ‘Be a Clown’ from The Pirate,” Donen says. Freed came ...
Producer, songwriter and author, brother to Ralph Freed, Walter and Ruth Freed. He was educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, and became associated with Gus Edwards musical acts. He performed in vaudeville with Louis Silvers, with whom he wrote revues for New York restaurants.
