1. Charles Powell Walters was an American Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies from the 1940s to the 1960s.
27 Facts About Charles Walters
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Charles Walters was born in Pasadena, California, the son of Joe Walter and Winifred Taft Walter, who had moved from Tomah, Wisconsin.
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Charles Walters changed his last name to Walters in the 1930s because he was "tired of misspellings".
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Charles Walters had a few dance numbers with Imogene Coca which drew good notices for both.
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Charles Walters appeared in the revue The Show is On, directed by Vincente Minnelli, then was in Between the Devil and I Married an Angel.
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Charles Walters was credited as choreographer on the Broadway show Sing Out the News.
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Charles Walters did the dances for Banjo Eyes, and went to RKO to work on the "dance ensembles" for RKO's Seven Days' Leave.
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Charles Walters went to MGM under contract as a dance director.
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Charles Walters worked on Broadway Rhythm and did uncredited choreography on Gaslight and Since You Went Away.
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Charles Walters then did Meet the People, Meet Me in St Louis, and Thrill of a Romance.
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Charles Walters was dance director on Ziegfeld Follies and did uncredited directing of the segment "A Great Lady Has an Interview".
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Charles Walters directed the 10-minute short Spreadin' the Jam.
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Charles Walters did choreography for Her Highness and the Bellboy, Week-End at the Waldorf, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood, Till the Clouds Roll By, and Summer Holiday.
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Charles Walters returned to Broadway to choreograph St Louis Woman.
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Charles Walters then did Easter Parade with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland.
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Charles Walters directed Garland and Gene Kelly in Summer Stock.
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Charles Walters followed this with his first non-musical comedy Three Guys Named Mike, then the Esther Williams vehicle Texas Carnival.
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Charles Walters went to Broadway to direct Garland's appearance at the Palace which ran for 266 performances.
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Charles Walters went back to Hollywood to do The Belle of New York, which starred Astaire and Vera-Ellen, and was a notable flop.
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Charles Walters received a Best Director Oscar nomination for the 1953 film Lili, starring Leslie Caron, for which Caron was Oscar nominated.
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Charles Walters did another two with Williams, Dangerous When Wet and Easy to Love.
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Charles Walters directed some popular comedies, Don't Go Near the Water with Glenn Ford, Ask Any Girl with Shirley MacLaine and David Niven, and Please Don't Eat the Daisies with Doris Day and Niven.
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Charles Walters helped choreograph the number "The Night They Invented Champagne" in Gigi and did some uncredited directing on Cimarron and Go Naked in the World.
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Charles Walters then had two flops, Two Loves with MacLaine and Billy Rose's Jumbo.
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Charles Walters recovered with The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which earned Debbie Reynolds an Oscar nomination.
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Charles Walters died of lung cancer on August 13,1982, in his home in Malibu, California.
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Charles Walters has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6402 Hollywood Blvd.