Robert Louis Fosse was an American dancer, musical-theatre choreographer, actor, theatre director, and filmmaker. He directed and choreographed musical works on stage and screen, including the stage musicals The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago. He is the only person ever to have won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year.
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Robert Louis Fosse was an American dancer, musical-theatre choreographer, actor, theatre director, and filmmaker. He directed and choreographed musical works on stage and screen, including the stage musicals The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago. His films include Sweet Charity, Cabaret, Lenny, and All That Jazz. He is the only person ever to have won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Director for Cabaret, and won the Palme D’Or in 1980 for All That jazz. He won a record eight Tonys for his choreography, as well as one for direction for Pipp in. FosSE was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 23, 1927, to a Norwegian American father, Cyril Kingsley Fos SE, a traveling salesman for The Hershey Company, and an Irish American mother Sarah Alice “Sadie” FosSe, née Stanton. He died in Los Angeles, California, on December 17, 2013. He had a son, Robert Fos Se, with his second wife, Mary Ann Niles, who he married in 1960. The couple had two children, Robert and Mary Ann, and a daughter, Robert Louis, Jr., who he had with his third wife, Gwen Verdon, whom he also worked with on Damn Yankees and How To Succeed In Business Without really Trying.
He also had three children with his fourth wife, Susan Fos se, who died in a car accident in 2008. FOSse was a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York City Ballet, and was a co-founder of the American Chorus of the West. He has a daughter with his fifth wife, actress Gwen V. Verdon. He and Verdon were partners in the musical Redhead, in which he choreographed the song “Who’s Got the Pain”? Fose was a director and choreographer on the film version of Redhead and directed Verdon in the stage version of The Conquering Hero. He worked on the musical How to succeed in Business without Really Trying, starring Doris Day, which was supposed to be the musical’s next feature film. He wrote and directed the musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, and Ann Miller, which he also choreographed.
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