Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), The Band Wagon (1953 ...

Vincente Minnelli was a contradictory man, says Mark Griffin in his enlightening new biography of the director. For starters, his real first name was Lester, though he discarded that moniker just as ...

It's disconcerting to realize that Vincente Minnelli, a giant of the MGM musical, chief innovator of the postwar Arthur Freed Unit, and one of the great directors of 1950s melodramas, hasn't warranted ...