They never lived together although they spent most evenings that way. He enjoyed a lengthy relationship with a fellow designer. His natural reticence didn't keep him from enjoying an active gay life. He had to push himself to participate fully in his glittering life because he had the heart and soul of a small town librarian. Josephine Baker, Eleanor Powell, Ira Gershwin, George Balanchine, Bob Hope, Ethel Waters. He was hobnobbing with all the young go-getter artists of the day. The Shuberts were then courting his favor and he began showing his stuff on Broadway. Within short order he was stage designing and then directing as well. ![]() He became known in America's two largest cities for his brilliant designs and soon he was working at the newly-opened Radio City Music Hall to costume its elaborate stage shows. Later he was summoned to New York to work for Paramount as a costume designer. He got a lofty position with Chicago's biggest movie exhibitor as a costume designer. He studied at the Chicago Art Institute and next worked as a society photographer. As soon as he graduated from high school, he flew out the door and over to the department store giant, Marshall Fields, and got on as a window designer. But there came a day when all agreed he needed formal schooling, resulting in his going to live with relatives. The Minnelli Brothers Tent Circuit traveled throughout the Midwest and little Lester was right in the middle of it all. It comes as no surprise that one day Minnelli would direct Van Gogh's story, Lust for Life, a film that surpassed all others in capturing the director's passion and imagination. Actually he was a painter, but he should have been a painter as Van Gogh was a painter with those colorful canvasses. his use of vibrant colors, inventive designs and later in the movies his meticulous use of camera angles and style and design and a talent for turning background action into stories of their own. It would have been very smart for one of his biographers to have titled a book Looking for the Panache.įrom the earliest years his artistic bent was known for its stylized look. It's true that his father's name was Vincent but that extra e was something that added the panache he was looking for. As an ambitious young adult striking out on his own, he changed his first name to Vincente because he thought it sounded more stylish and alluring. Lester Anthony Minnelli was born in Chicago in 1903 to a conductor and a singer. He was MGM's most prestigious, highest-paid director and made 29 films during his 20-year reign at the studio. One of his trademarks is a dream sequences he's used in a number of of his films. It should be on his tombstone because it so accurately depicts the father of the Hollywood musical, famous for his lavish sets, his stylish use of vivid color and richly romantic themes. They were found guilty and locked up in Gesualdo's castle, which presumably wasn't what his long-suffering (and, by all accounts, abused) wife was hoping for.There is a line in his most honored film Gigi: Play the game. ![]() More stories started popping up about other horrific acts Gesualdo committed, and while a lot of them aren't true, it is true that he married again and had so many affairs his new bride eventually put his mistresses on trial for witchcraft. Since Gesualdo was a prince as well as a composer, the justice system didn't quite do its thing. There was absolutely no doubt as to who the murderer was, as witnesses saw Gesualdo enter the apartment and shout, "Kill that scoundrel, along with this harlot!" Those witnesses testified he came out covered in blood, said he wasn't sure they were quite dead, and went back in. She'd had her throat cut, and was also covered in wounds. He was covered in blood, shot several times, and stabbed in the chest, neck, face, arms, hands, shoulders, and kidneys. Ross says the double murder happened on October 16, 1590, and officials first found the body of the Duke of Andria. Let's start with an account of the murder, via The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross.
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