Ross, Herbert (b Brooklyn, NY, 13 May 1926). US dancer, choreographer, and director who directed the films The Turning Point (1977) and Nijinsky (1980). He started training in his midteens with Platova and Humphrey and danced on Broadway, creating his first dances for the New York Choreographers Workshop, including Caprichos (mus. Bartók, 1950). He went on to choreograph several musicals including Wonderful Town (1958) and Finian's Rainbow (1960), as well as dances for the film Carmen Jones (1954). He also choreographed ballets for American Ballet Theatre, including The Maids (mus. Milhaud, 1957), and for the Spoleto Festival of 1959 such as Serenade for Seven Dancers (mus. Bernstein). In 1960 he founded Ballet of Two Worlds with his wife Nora Kaye, which performed at Spoleto and toured Germany with new works including the full-length ballet The Dybbuk (mus. R. Starer). After the company disbanded he concentrated on musicals and films, directing over 25 of the latter.
Herbert Ross
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- Born: May 13, 1927 in New York City, New York
- Died: 2001 in New York, New York
- Occupation: Director
- Active: '60s-'90s
- Major Genres: Comedy, Musical
- Career Highlights: Carmen Jones, The Goodbye Girl, The Sunshine Boys
- First Major Screen Credit: Carmen Jones (1954)
Biography
American director/choreographer Herbert Ross divided his time between Broadway and the American Ballet Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s. Ross also choreographed numerous live television programs, and handled the dance sequences of such films as Carmen Jones (1954), Inside Daisy Clover (1963) and Dr. Doollittle (1967). His first screen directorial job was Goodbye Mr. Chips, an overblown 1969 remake of a well-regarded 1939 MGM feature. Ross' subsequent cinema reputation rested on his ability to transfer popular stage plays to the screen, as witness The Owl and The Pussycat (1970), The Sunshine Boys (1975) and California Suite (1978). While he was expert in cinematizing the plays of Neil Simon, Ross was critcally lambasted for his conformist approach to Woody Allen's Play it Again Sam (1972), though this film was one of Allen's biggest moneymakers. Ross also directed a brace of Neil Simon screenplays, The Goodbye Girl (1977) (which won an Oscar for star Richard Dreyfuss) and Max Dugan Returns (1982). Considered by some detractors to be merely a conduit for the works of more talented writers, Ross countered his critics with such remarkable personal-expression pieces as The Turning Point (1978), a story of the ballet world which became an unexpected box-office smash, and Pennies From Heaven (1981), a courageous if not wholly successful juxtaposition of wish-dream fantasy and tragic reality. Ross has worked with everyone from Raquel Welch to Barbra Streisand, so he is unimpressed by the excesses of "star mystique." He was roundly criticized by the costars of Steel Magnolias (1989) for his rough treatment of then-supporting actress Julia Roberts, but the fact is that Roberts gave a far better performance for Ross than she would for many of her pre-approved directors once she achieved superstardom. In private life, Ross has had two high-profile marriages -- his first wife was ballet dancer Nora Kaye, who produced many of her husband's films until her death in 1987 and his second wife was Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jackie Kennedy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide| Filmography: Herbert Ross |
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| Born | Herbert David Ross May 13, 1927 Brooklyn, NY |
| Died | October 9, 2001 (aged 74) New York, NY |
| Years active | 1958-1995 |
| Spouse(s) | Lee Radziwill (1988–2001) Nora Kaye (1959-1987) |
Herbert Ross (May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001) was an American film director, producer, choreographer and actor.
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Early life and career
Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942. His Broadway credits as a performer included Something for the Boys (1943), Laffing Room Only (1944), Beggar's Holiday (1946), and Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'! (1948). His choreography career began with the American Ballet Theatre in 1950; the following year he choreographed his first Broadway production, the Arthur Schwartz-Dorothy Fields musical adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
His first film assignment was as uncredited choreographer on Carmen Jones in 1954. He choreographed the dance numbers for the Cliff Richard films The Young Ones (1961) and Summer Holiday (1963). In 1968, Ross worked with Barbra Streisand as choreographer and director of musical numbers for the film Funny Girl. The following year, he made his motion picture directorial debut with a musical version of the classic Goodbye, Mr. Chips, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark.
Career ascension
In 1975, Ross worked on the film adaptation of the Neil Simon play The Sunshine Boys, the first of several Simon play adaptations he directed. Two years later, he helmed the ballet-oriented drama The Turning Point, for which he won the Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for Best Director. He also earned a Academy Award nomination as Best Director, and earned another nomination for co-producing the film.
He had a huge hit with the film adaptation of Robert Harling's play Steel Magnolias, featuring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, and Shirley MacLaine, in 1989. His last film was in 1995, when he produced and directed Boys on the Side, with Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore.
Personal life
He was married twice, the first time to ballerina Nora Kaye, who died of cancer in 1987 at the age of 67. His second marriage was to Lee Radziwill and ended in divorce in 2001.[1]
Ross died of heart failure in 2001 in New York City and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Additional Broadway credits
(As choreographer, unless otherwise noted)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951)
- Three Wishes for Jamie (1952)
- House of Flowers (1954)
- The Body Beautiful (1958)
- Finian's Rainbow (1960 revival)
- The Gay Life (1961)
- I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962)
- Tovarich (1963)
- Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
- Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)
- Kelly (Chorographer and director, 1965)
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965)
- The Apple Tree (1965)
- Chapter Two (Director, 1977)
- I Ought to Be in Pictures (Director, 1980)
Films as director
- Wonderful Town (1958) (TV)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
- The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
- T.R. Baskin (1971)
- Play It Again, Sam (1972)
- The Last of Sheila (1973)
- Funny Lady (1975)
- The Sunshine Boys (1975)
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
- The Turning Point (1977, sole Best Director Oscar nomination)
- The Goodbye Girl (1977)
- California Suite (1978)
- Nijinsky (1980)
- Pennies From Heaven (1981)
- I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
- Max Dugan Returns (1983)
- Footloose (1984)
- Protocol (1984)
- The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
- Dancers (1987)
- Steel Magnolias (1989)
- My Blue Heaven (1990)
- True Colors (1991)
- Undercover Blues (1993)
- Boys on the Side (1995)
References
- ^ "Lee Bouvier Radziwill Weds Herbert Ross, Film Director". New York Times. 1988-09-24. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE0DA1731F937A1575AC0A96E948260. Retrieved 2007-06-21. "Lee Bouvier Radziwill and Herbert Ross were married yesterday evening at the bride's home in New York by Justice E. Leo Milonas of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court, First Department. After the ceremony, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the sister of the bride, gave a dinner party for the couple at her home in New York. Rudolf Nureyev, the dancer and director of the Paris Opera Ballet, and John Taras, the associate director of American Ballet Theater, attended the couple."
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- American Ballet Company (company)
- David M. Walsh (Cinematographer, Actor, Comedy/Drama)
- Roger M. Rothstein (Actor, Comedy Drama/Comedy)
- Steel Magnolias (1989 Drama Film)
- Derek Hough (Actor)
- My Blue Heaven (1990 Comedy Film)
- The Secret of My Success (1987 Comedy Film)
- The Sunshine Boys (1975 Comedy Film)
- The Turning Point (movie)
- The Dancers (1987 Dance Film)
- I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982 Comedy Drama Film)
- Nijinsky (1980 Drama Film)
- T.R. Baskin (1971 Comedy Drama Film)
- Niecy Nash (Actor, Comedy)
