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  2. As a choreographer, Berkeley was less concerned with the dancing skills of his chorus girls as he was with their ability to form themselves into attractive geometric patterns. His musical numbers were among the larger and better-regimented on Broadway.

  3. In 1933 alone, Berkeley staged the dances for three Warner Brothers musicals now regarded as classics: 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade. Those three films were backstage stories, all concerned with the production of a Broadway show.

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  4. Jan 10, 2009 · He was known as Buzz and used to boast that he had never had a dance lesson in his life. He wasn’t the type to gas on about his choreographic ideas, the best of which, he often said,...

  5. The choreography of Busby Berkeley was like a dance in a kaleidoscope, so high was the mathematical accuracy of complex rhythmic movements. Busby, the son of actress Gertrude Berkeley, first appeared on stage at the age of 5.

  6. Jul 11, 2018 · Berkeley had no formal dance training. His closest brush with choreography was organizing close-order marching drills during the First World War. He got his first taste of directing while...

  7. It is strange but true that Busby Berkeley never had a dancing lesson and, in his early days, he was very afraid of people finding out. He often drove his colleagues to distraction by his habit of sitting in front of a new set for days at a time thinking up ways of using it to best advantage.

  8. May 21, 2018 · Although he never had a dance lesson he ingeniously choreographed and filmed elaborate dance productions and created outrageous kaleidoscopic effects through the use of dynamic camera angles in filming the dancers.