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): Aga Muhlach • Alex Naumik • Bruce Greenwood • Chris Chambers • Diamond Jim Brady • Edward Pinkowski • George Wetherill • Henry Tuilagi • Joe Jones (singer) • Julio Urías • Leung Chun-ying • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq • Plaxico Burress • Rob Borbidge • Takanohana Kōji • Todd Marchant • Vikram Sarabhai • Yusof Ishak

Born in the same month (August 1915): B. A. Santamaria • Gary Merrill • Humphrey Searle • Ingrid Bergman • Ivo Rojnica • Mareta West • Morris Weiss • Nathan Pritikin • Warren Avis • Wynonie Harris