Vincente Minnelli directed the classic movie musicals Meet Me in St Louis, An American in Paris, The Band Wagon, and Gigi.
23 Facts About Vincente Minnelli
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An American in Paris and Gigi both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Minnelli winning Best Director for Gigi.
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Vincente Minnelli was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; the couple were the parents of Liza Minnelli.
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Lester Anthony Vincente Minnelli was born on February 28,1903, to Marie Emilie Odile Lebeau and Vincent Charles Vincente Minnelli.
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Vincente Minnelli was baptized in Chicago, and was the youngest of four known sons, only two of whom survived to adulthood.
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Vincente Minnelli's mother was born in Chicago and was of French-Canadian descent with a probability of Anishinaabe lineage through her mother, who was born on Mackinac Island, Michigan.
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Domenico Vincente Minnelli had been Vice-Chancellor of the Gran Corte Civile in Palermo at the time he helped organize the January 12,1848, uprising there.
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Vincente Minnelli later worked as a photographer for Paul Stone, who specialized in photographing actors from Chicago's theater district.
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Vincente Minnelli soon left Chicago and rented a tiny Greenwich Village apartment.
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Vincente Minnelli's reputation grew and he was offered a job at MGM in 1940 by producer Arthur Freed.
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The Vincente Minnelli family is thus unique in that father, mother and child all won Oscars.
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Vincente Minnelli's last film was A Matter of Time.
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Vincente Minnelli received an Oscar nomination as Best Director for An American in Paris and later won the Best Director Oscar for Gigi.
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Vincente Minnelli was awarded France's highest civilian honor, Commandeur of the Legion of Honor, only weeks before his death in 1986.
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Vincente Minnelli's work reached a height of critical attention during the late 1950s and early 1960s in France with extensive studies in the Cahiers du Cinema magazine, especially in the articles by Jean Douchet and Jean Domarchi, who saw in him "a cinematic visionary obsessed with beauty and harmony", and "an artist who could give substance to the world of dreams".
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Vincente Minnelli served as a juror at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.
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On February 8,1960, Vincente Minnelli received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry at 6676 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Vincente Minnelli was married to Judy Garland from June 15,1945 to March 29,1951.
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Vincente Minnelli was married to Georgette Magnani from February 1,1954 to January 1,1958.
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The couple had one child, Christiane Nina Vincente Minnelli was born on 1955 and and the marriage ended in divorce.
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For years, there was speculation in the entertainment community that Vincente Minnelli was gay or bisexual.
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Vincente Minnelli died in his Beverly Hills home, on July 25,1986, aged 83, of emphysema and pneumonia, which had caused him to be repeatedly hospitalized in his final year.
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Vincente Minnelli is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.