Michael Kidd

Michael Kidd was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and who staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Kidd, strongly influenced by Charlie Chaplin and Léonide Massine, was an innovator in what came to be known as the "integrated musical", in which dance movements are integral to the plot.

12 August 1915

Born on the same birth day (12 August): Albert Bartha • Alfred Lunt • August Darnell • Christian III of Denmark • Edith Hamilton • Jesinta Franklin • Khris Middleton • Marion Lorne • Marvin Zeegelaar • Miloš Jakeš • Park Yong-ha • Ross McWhirter

Born in the same month (August 1915): Al Hibbler • Alfred Rouleau • B. A. Santamaria • David Dellinger • Edward Szczepanik • Gary Merrill • Humphrey Searle • Ingrid Bergman • Ivo Rojnica • James Hillier • James Tiptree Jr. • Jumbo Elliott (coach) • Max Robertson • Morris Weiss • Ring Lardner Jr. • Robert Strassburg • Signe Hasso • Warren Avis