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Charles Walters
Film Director, Choreographer, Dance Director, Composer
(1911 - 1982)
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Charles Walters began his career on Broadway where he introduced “A Picture of Me Without You” and “Just One of Those Things” with June Knight in the Cole Porter musical, Jubilee (1935). From 1942 to 1946 he choreographed or served as dance director for some twenty films, including Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) and Easter Parade (1948). But Walters is mainly remembered as the director of almost 30 movies from Spreadin’ the Jam (1945), for which he wrote the title song, to Walk Don’t Run (1966). In between he directed several big hits, Good News (1947), Barkleys of Broadway (1949), and Dangerous When Wet (1953), and from 1955 to 1957 he made a splash with The Tender Trap, High Society, and Don’t Go Near the Water. He was nominated as Best Director by the Academy for Lili (1953) and by the Directors Guild of America for both Lili and Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960). In 1964 he directed the exuberant The Unsinkable Molly Brown. When he retired from filmmaking he directed series and specials for TV.
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