Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelliwas an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 February 1903
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
I learn new things all the time.
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
It's the story that counts.
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
Designing Woman was written for the screen.
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.