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  • American Masters Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About (Season 23, Episode 1)
  • TV-14
    TV Episode | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History

American Masters

Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About (Season 23, Episode 1)
TV-14
TV Episode | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz was born in New York on October 11, 1918 and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey. Deprived of a college education by the Depression, he began his career as a dancer in the experimental troupe of Gluck Sandor.
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Director
Writer
Amanda Vaill (written by)
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Cinematographer
Status
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Updated Mar 31, 2009

Release date
Feb 18, 2009 (United States)

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Ib Andersen
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William Archibald
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Fred Astaire
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Anthony Blum
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Ruthhanna Boris
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Lucia Chase
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Imogene Coca
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Betty Comden
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Bart Robinson Cook
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Joseph Duell
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Roy Durbin
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Christine Ebersole
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Jean-Pierre Frohlich
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Cynthia Gibb
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Adolph Green
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Tom Halloran
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Robert Harrington
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Linda Hart
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Kipling Houston
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Larry Kert
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John Kriza
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Harold Lang
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Tanaquil Le Clerq
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Madeline Lee
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Adam Luders
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Natalia Makarova
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Mary Martin
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Anna McNeely
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Ethel Merman
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Edward R. Murrow
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Kathleen Nolan
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Janis Paige
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John Raitt
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Ron Rifkin
Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice)   See fewer
Cyril Ritchard
Captain Hook in 'Peter Pan' (archive footage) Captain Hook in 'Peter Pan' (archive footage)   See fewer
Jerome Robbins
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Ken Robson
Bottle Dancer (archive footage) Bottle Dancer (archive footage)   See fewer
Stephanie Saland
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Robert Stevenson
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Ed Sullivan
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Helgi Tomasson
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Gwen Verdon
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Nancy Walker
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Heather Watts
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Damian Woetzel
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Yuriko
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Lou Zamprogna
Bottle Dancer (archive footage) Bottle Dancer (archive footage)   See fewer
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