Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer

by Emanuel Levy

Book, 2009

Publication

St. Martin's Press (2009), Edition: First Edition, 464 pages

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2010)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: Vincente Minnelli (cisgender man) had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Publisher's Summary: Minnelli started out as a set and costume designer in New York... He became the first director of New York's Radio City Music Hall, as well as some of the most lavish Broadway musicals... As a film director, he discovered Lena Horne in a Harlem nightclub and cast her in his first movie, the legendary musical Cabin in the Sky. The winner of the Director Oscar for Gigi, the first film to win in all nine of its Oscar nominations, Minnelli directed such classics as the Oscar-winning An American in Paris, Meet Me in St. Louis, Father of the Bride, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Some Came Running. He was married to Judy Garland, who he met on the set of Meet Me in St. Louis and directed in such landmark films as The Clock; their daughter is actress-singer Liza Minnelli.

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