Arthur Freed

Producer

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Also Known As

Arthur Grossman

Birth Place

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Born

September 09, 1894

Died

April 12, 1973

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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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 including the all-black "Cabin in the Sky" (1943), "Meet Me...

Filmography

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The Clock (1945)

Man lighting Joe Allen's cigarette

Those Three French Girls (1930)

Bells Are Ringing (1960)

The Subterraneans (1960)

Silk Stockings (1957)

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Clock, The - (Original Trailer)

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Grinding Coffee

Family & Companions

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Lucille Bremer

Companion

Actor. Involved in the early 1940s.

Notes

Decorated the Chevalier of French Legion d'Honneur.

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 including the all-black "Cabin in the Sky" (1943), "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), "On The Town" (1949), "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) and "Silk Stockings" (1957).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Clock (1945)

Man lighting Joe Allen's cigarette

Writer (Feature Film)

Those Three French Girls (1930)

Producer (Feature Film)

Bells Are Ringing (1960)

The Subterraneans (1960)

Silk Stockings (1957)

Invitation to the Dance (1956)

It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

Brigadoon (1954)

The Band Wagon (1953)

The Belle of New York (1952)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Show Boat (1951)

An American in Paris (1951)

Royal Wedding (1951)

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Pagan Love Song (1950)

On the Town (1949)

The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

Any Number Can Play (1949)

Summer Holiday (1948)

Easter Parade (1948)

Words and Music (1948)

The Pirate (1948)

Till the Clouds Roll By (1947)

Good News (1947)

The Harvey Girls (1946)

Ziegfeld Follies (1946)

The Clock (1945)

Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Best Foot Forward (1943)

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Girl Crazy (1943)

Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Babes on Broadway (1942)

For Me and My Gal (1942)

Panama Hattie (1942)

Lady Be Good (1941)

Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

Strike Up the Band (1940)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Assistant to the prod

Babes in Arms (1939)

Music (Feature Film)

The Intern (2015)

Me and Orson Welles (2009)

Planet 51 (2009)

Lust, Caution (2007)

We Own the Night (2007)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Shrek the Third (2007)

The Bucket List (2007)

Shanghai Knights (2003)

The Quiet American (2002)

Hollywood Ending (2002)

Wonder Boys (2000)

Godzilla (1998)

There's Something About Mary (1998)

The Object of My Affection (1998)

The Waterboy (1998)

Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

Song ("Temptation")

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

That's Entertainment! III (1994)

Arthur Miller's American Clock (1993)

Noises Off (1992)

What About Bob? (1991)

Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989)

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)

The Year My Voice Broke (1988)

Die Hard (1988)

The Slugger's Wife (1985)

Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

New York, New York (1977)

That's Entertainment! II (1976)

Lucky Lady (1975)

Lyrics ("All I Do Is Dream Of You")

The Sunshine Boys (1975)

That's Entertainment! (1974)

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Boy Friend (1971)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Doctor, You've Got To Be Kidding (1967)

Seven Hills of Rome (1958)

The Joker Is Wild (1957)

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

With a Song in My Heart (1952)

Somebody Loves Me (1952)

Under the Gun (1951)

Pagan Love Song (1950)

Three Little Words (1950)

Boarding House Blues (1948)

You Were Meant for Me (1948)

Ziegfeld Follies (1946)

Night Club Girl (1945)

Song of the Sarong (1945)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Hi, Beautiful (1944)

Bathing Beauty (1944)

Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

Babes on Broadway (1942)

Penny Serenade (1941)

Sis Hopkins (1941)

Lady Be Good (1941)

It's a Date (1940)

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Two Girls on Broadway (1940)

Strike Up the Band (1940)

Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

Babes in Arms (1939)

Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)

San Francisco (1936)

After the Thin Man (1936)

Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

A Night at the Opera (1935)

No More Ladies (1935)

Hollywood Party (1934)

Hide-Out (1934)

Sadie McKee (1934)

Student Tour (1934)

College Coach (1933)

The Barbarian (1933)

Peg O' My Heart (1933)

Should Ladies Behave (1933)

Going Hollywood (1933)

Hold Your Man (1933)

Stage Mother (1933)

Speak Easily (1932)

Jenny Lind (1931)

Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)

The Prodigal (1931)

A Lady's Morals (1930)

Good News (1930)

Those Three French Girls (1930)

Montana Moon (1930)

Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)

Good News (1930)

Marianne (1929)

The Pagan (1929)

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)

Around the World Via Graf Zeppelin (1929)

The Show of Shows (1929)

The Broadway Melody (1929)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Light in the Piazza (1962)

Producer (Special)

Hollywood Melody (1962)

Cast (Short)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Songwriters' Revue (1930)

Music (Short)

Hollywood Party (1937)

Life Events

1923

Hit song writer "I Cried For You"

1929

Film lyricist MGM

1939

Associate producer "The Wizard of Oz"

1963

President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Photo Collections

The Wizard of Oz - Behind-the-Scenes Stills

Here are some photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of MGM's The Wizard of Oz (1939), directed by Victor Fleming.

Easter Parade - Irving Berlin Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are several photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of MGM's Easter Parade (1948), featuring songwriter Irving Berlin and the film's cast and crew.

Good News - Behind-the-Scenes photos

Here are several photos taken during rehearsals and shooting of Good News (1947). Look for director Charles Walters, unit producer Arthur Freed, and stars June Allyson and Peter Lawford.

Bells Are Ringing - Behind-the-Scenes Stills

Here are a number of photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of MGM's Bells Are Ringing (1960), starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin, and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Videos

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Grinding Coffee Their first meeting in their last co-starring MGM Musical, frisky Mickey Rooney as east-coast publishing-heir playboy Danny, banished to college out west, meets taller and prettier Judy Garland, whom we’ll learn is the college post-mistress Ginger, in the all-Gershwin full-tilt Freed Unit production, Girl Crazy, 1943.

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) But Not For Me Feeling a fairly complex disappointment for having become vested in the college beauty pageant, post-mistress Ginger (Judy Garland) finds another George & Ira Gershwin tune from the original Broadway hit, good guy Rags (Ragland) attempting consolation, in MGM's Girl Crazy, 1943, also starring Mickey Rooney.

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Could You Use Me? One of only a couple numbers they perform together in their last MGM co-starring vehicle, it’s fallen to pretty college post-mistress Ginger (Judy Garland) to take departing playboy-heir student to the train to go home, his only regret in leaving her behind, with a George & Ira Gershwin tune, in Girl Crazy, 1943.

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Embraceable You The boys at Cody College throw a birthday for their beloved post-mistress Ginger (Judy Garland) who offers George and Ira Gershwin's Embraceable You, including an extended performance with dance director Charles "Chuck" Walters, in return, in Girl Crazy, 1943, also starring Mickey Rooney.

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Treat Me Rough With Tommy Dorsey and orchestra, George and Ira Gershwin's Treat Me Rough, first by June Allyson as a specialty, then by youthful playboy Danny (Mickey Rooney), about to be sent to college out west, in the lavish MGM Freed Unit musical Girl Crazy, 1943, also starring Judy Garland.

American In Paris, An (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Our Love Is Here To Stay On the banks of the (MGM soundstage) Seine, painter Jerry (Gene Kelly) and ingenue Lise (Leslie Caron) do their romantic number set to Gershwin's "Our Love Is Here To Stay," in An American In Paris, 1951, from producer Arthur Freed.

American In Paris, An (1951) -- (Movie Clip) I Got Rhythm Gene Kelly (as "Jerry") with his own choreography and the neighborhood kids, does some language instruction with George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm," in An American In Paris, 1951.

American in Paris, An (1951) -- (Movie Clip) A Simple Girl Variations on Gershwin's "Embraceable You" support Henri (Georges Guetary) as he describes his girlfriend Lise (Leslie Caron) to Adam (Oscar Levant) in a fantasy musical sequence in An American In Paris, 1951.

American in Paris, An (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, This Is Paris The opening sequence from Vincente Minnelli's An American in Paris, 1951, which offers a brief tour of Paris and introduces "Jerry," the Gene Kelly character.

Light In The Piazza (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Two Butterflies Poolside in Florence, the mentally-challenged Amerian Clara (Yvette Mimieux) frolics with Italian George Hamilton (as "Fabrizio"), mother Margaret (Olivia de Havilland) and friend (Isabel Dean) overseeing, in Light In The Piazza, 1962.

Singin' In The Rain (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Moses Supposes Silent star Don (co-director and choreographer Gene Kelly) with diction coach (Robert Watson), joined by musical partner Cosmo (Donald O’Connor) for the flat-out athletic tap number to the song by Roger Edens, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a rousing bit from Singin’ In The Rain, 1952.

Singin' In The Rain (1952) -- (Movie Clip) All I Do Is Dream Of You The studio boss (Millard Mitchell) after a talking-picture demo, with Cosmo (Donald O’Connor) pal of star Don (Gene Kelly), who’s delighted to find snooty Cathy (Debbie Reynolds) doing a cheesecake gig, song by Nacio Herb Brown and producer Arthur Freed, bimbo Lina (Jean Hagen) getting pied, in Singin’ In The Rain, 1952.

Clock, The - (Original Trailer) A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City in The Clock (1945).

Girl Crazy (1943) - (Original Trailer) A womanizing playboy finds true love when he's sent to a desert college in Girl Crazy (1943) starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.

Gigi (1958) -- (Original Trailer) A Parisian girl (Leslie Caron) is raised to be a kept woman but dreams of love and marriage in Gigi (1958), directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Easter Parade (1948) -- (Re-issue Trailer) When his partner leaves him, a vaudeville star trains an untried performer to take her place in Easter Parade (1948) starring Judy Garland & Fred Astaire.

Wizard of Oz, The (1939) -- (1949 Re-issue Trailer) A Kansas farm girl dreams herself into a magical land where she must fight a wicked witch to escape in The Wizard of Oz (1939), starring Judy Garland.

Lady Be Good - (Original Trailer) None of the plot but all of the Gershwin songs like "Fascinatin' Rhythm" in MGM's version of Lady Be Good (1941).

Annie Get Your Gun - (Original Trailer) Betty Hutton stars as Annie Oakley in the film version of Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun (1950).

Words And Music - (Original Trailer) Judy Garland, Lena Horne and Perry Como perform the songs of Rodgers and Hart in Words And Music (1948).

On the Town - (Original Trailer) Three sailors wreck havoc during a whirlwind 24-hour shore leave in New York City in On the Town (1949) starring Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra.

That's Entertainment! - (Original Trailer) An all-star cast, including Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire, introduce clips from MGM's greatest musicals in That's Entertainment! (1974).

Ziegfeld Follies - (Original Trailer) Legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld imagines the kind of Follies he could produce with MGM's musical stars in Ziegfeld Follies (1946) starring Judy Garland.

Band Wagon, The - (Original Trailer) A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop in The Band Wagon (1953), starring Fred Astaire.

Family

Ralph Freed

Brother

Songwriter. Born 1907.

Companions

Lucille Bremer

Companion

Actor. Involved in the early 1940s.

Bibliography

Notes

Decorated the Chevalier of French Legion d'Honneur.

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