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): Alexandros Tzorvas • Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria • Donald Justice • Edward Pinkowski • Ernestine von Kirchsberg • George McGinnis • John Derek • Luna (South Korean singer) • Margaret Burbidge • Miloš Jakeš • Sam J. Jones • Siddaramaiah • Tamás Lossonczy

Born in the same month (August 1915): Al Hibbler • B. A. Santamaria • David Dellinger • Gary Merrill • Humphrey Searle • Ingrid Bergman • James Hillier • James Tiptree Jr. • Jumbo Elliott (coach) • Max Lanier • Max Robertson • Morris Weiss • Nathan Pritikin • Pete Newell • Ring Lardner Jr. • Robert Strassburg • Signe Hasso • Wynonie Harris