Vincente Minnelli

Gender: Male
Born: 28th February 1903
Died: 25th July 1986
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Matter of Time, An American in Paris, Babes on Broadway, Bells Are Ringing, Brigadoon, Cabin in the Sky, Designing Woman, Elizabeth Taylor Triad, Father's Little Dividend, Father of the Bride, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Gigi, Goodbye Charlie, Home from the Hill, I Dood It, Kismet, Lovely to Look At, Lust for Life, Madame Bovary, Meet Me in St. Louis, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Some Came Running, Tea and Sympathy, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Band Wagon, The Clock, The Cobweb, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Long, Long Trailer, The Pirate, The Reluctant Debutante, The Sandpiper, The Story of Three Loves, Till the Clouds Roll By, Two Weeks in Another Town, Undercurrent, Yolanda and the Thief, Ziegfeld Follies

Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas. He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were the parents of Liza Minnelli.

Born as Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago, he was the youngest of four known sons, only two of whom survived to adulthood, born to Marie Émilie Odile Lebeau (stage name: Mina Gennell) and Vincent Charles Minnelli. His father was musical conductor of Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater. Minnelli's Chicago-born mother was of French Canadian descent with a strong probability of Native American (Anishinaabe) lineage included via her Mackinac Island, Michigan born mother. The family toured small towns primarily in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois before settling permanently in Delaware, Ohio.

Paternal grandfather Vincenzo Minnelli and great-uncle Domenico Minnelli, both Sicilian revolutionaries, were forced to leave Sicily after the collapse of the

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