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This was the main reason behind his success as a filmmaker of musical movies. Busby Berkeley performed for the first time in his life at the age of five. Busby Berkeley used to work as a dance director during the 1920s in the Broadway musicals. There was a huge hit titled as "A Connecticut Yankee". This performance made him a celebrity. Busby Berkeley's legendary technique of taking the shots impressed many persons and he soon became a popular name in the Hollywood entertainment world.Busby Berkeley started acting as a director in Samuel Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor musicals. One of his favorite techniques was "parade of faces". Busby Berkeley is also remembered for his beautiful stage direction in the number titled as "Remember My Forgotten Man" in the musical Gold Diggers of 1933.
He did the choreography in the three hit musicals including the most popular 42nd Street and Footlight Parade. In 1943 he directed Girl Crazy. Another hit work of Busby Berkeley was 20th Century Fox's 1943 musical The Gang's All Here. The last work of Busby Berkeley as a filmmaker was MGM's Billy Rose's Jumbo which was released in the year 1962. Some of his other great works' name should be mentioned. They include Roman Scandals, Fashions of 1934, Wonder Bar, Dames, Stage Struck, Strike Up the Band, Forty Little Mothers, and Ziegfeld Girl.
Busby Berkeley had always been extremely dedicated to his work. He had married six times. So the personal life of Busby Berkeley had had its ups and downs. But it little hampered his professional success as a filmmaker. Busby Berkeley mainly covered the college and lecture circuit and immensely influenced the generation of his time. Busby Berkeley died at the age of eighty in Palm Springs in his residence in California.
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