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Busby Berkeley

Busby BerkeleyAKA William Berkeley Enos

Born: 29-Nov-1895
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Died: 14-Mar-1976
Location of death: Palm Springs, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, CA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Film Director

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Strike Up the Band

Military service: US Army (1918)

Choreographer and director of musicals, known for staging bizarre, overwrought, often hilarious musical numbers.

Father: Francis Enos
Mother: Gertrude Berkeley (actress, d. 1946)
Brother: George Enos
Wife: Esther Muir (div. 1931)
Wife: Merna Kennedy (m. 1934, div. 1935)
Wife: Etta Judd

    High School: Mohegan Lake Military Academy, Peekskill, NY (1914)

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Warner Brothers
    Driving While Intoxicated
    Vehicular Manslaughter
    Suicide Attempt 1946
    Drug Overdose
    Institutionalized Los Angeles
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism

    FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
    Take Me Out to the Ball Game (9-Mar-1949)
    Cinderella Jones (9-Mar-1946)
    The Gang's All Here (24-Dec-1943)
    Girl Crazy (26-Nov-1943)
    For Me and My Gal (21-Oct-1942)
    Babes on Broadway (31-Dec-1941)
    Strike Up the Band (27-Sep-1940)
    Babes in Arms (13-Oct-1939)
    They Made Me a Criminal (21-Jan-1939)
    Comet Over Broadway (3-Dec-1938)
    Men Are Such Fools (15-Jun-1938)
    Hollywood Hotel (20-Dec-1937)
    Stage Struck (12-Sep-1936)
    Gold Diggers of 1935 (15-Mar-1935)
    Dames (16-Aug-1934)


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