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- Date of Birth: June 23, 1927
- Birth Name: Robert Louis Fosse
- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
- Married three times
- His third wife was Gwen Verdon
- Won 8 Tony Awards and one Academy Awards for Best Director
- Died: September 23, 1987 of a heart attack
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Bob Fosse was a world renowned theater director, choreographer, and an Academy Award winning film director. Known for his innovative choreography, Fosse blended the styles of Fred Astaire and Jack Cole to create a style of jazz dance that blended with old-fashioned music hall numbers.
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Early Life
The youngest of six children, Fosse grew up in Chicago and teamed up with Charles Grass as a dancing duo known as The Riff Brothers. From this, Fosse got hired to choreograph a show called Tough Situation which toured military bases in the Pacific. Being close to the west coast led Fosse to Hollywood where he began appearing in films as a dancer, but it was a choreographed sequence in Kiss Me, Kate that caught the attention of Broadway producers. -
If I Can Make It Here
Fosse's fate pulled him to New York where he choreographed his first musical The Pajama Game in 1954. He soon developed a style of jazz dance that exuded sexuality and used a stylized look of hats, canes, and chairs. Fosse incorporated this style of dance in Sweet Charity and Cabaret. By the the late 1960s Fosse returned to films, but behind the camera. He directed five feature films including Sweet Charity, Cabaret, Lenny and his semi-autobiographical film All That Jazz, which earned Fosse his third Oscar nomination.
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Bob Fosse Questions
What episode of SpongeBob SquarePants featured Pantera as a musical guest, where can I find It? 2 AnswersThe SpongeBob episode featuring Pantera is called "Pre-Hibernation Week" (Season 2, Episode 13).Here's a YouTube video I found (not whole episode, poor quality)... read more
What is your favorite Bob Dylan cover song? 13 AnswersLol, it is a Tie between "Just Like a Woman" (Richie Havens, Mixed Bag, 1967) or "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (Guns N' Roses, Use Your Illusion II, 1991) and ... read more
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Bob Fosse Timeline
- Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- June 23, 1927: Born
- 1955: Acted and choreographed My Sister Eileen
- 1957: Choreographed The Pajama Game
- 1969: Directed and choreographed Sweet Charity
- 1972: Won Emmy Award for Liza with a 'Z'
- 1972: Won Academy Award for Cabaret
- 1974: Directed Lenny
- 1979: Wrote, directed and choreographed All That Jazz
- 1983: Wrote and directed Star 80
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@larissamendes se fosse Musa do Verão viria de brinde um cd do Bob Dylon...
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One of the great puzzles of the world: exhausted toddlers who, when put into cribs, turns into Bob Fosse channelling Harry Richman.
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Se a vida fosse bela, todo dia teria sol, todo mar teria onda, toda música seria reggae e toda fumaça faria a cabeça. TIO BOB
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@RhondaCoca Have you ever seen All That Jazz? (Bob Fosse, 1979)
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Só que ela ligou na Oi Fm e estava tocando Bob Dylan, The Who e Beatles. Achei que fosse brinks da rádio, mas nem era.
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