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Charles Walters (November 11, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s.
He was born in Pasadena, California, and educated at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
He is notable for directing Esther Williams' musicals involving underwater swimming and diving sequences, such as Dangerous When Wet, as well as several musicals starring Leslie Caron, such as Gigi (for which he is uncredited) and Lili. He has also directed musical remakes, including High Society, a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940), and Bundle of Joy, a remake of Bachelor Mother (1939). Walters also directed the last pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, The Barkleys of Broadway, as well as Cary Grant in the actor's last film Walk, Don't Run.
Walters died from lung cancer at the age of 71.
According to William J. Mann's book, "Behind the Screen", Walters was gay.
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03 December 1975
Lucille Ball stars with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, combining their comedic talents for the first time in a trio of comedy-dramas centered on the various aspects of marriage.
04 December 1947
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe.
05 October 1951
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
24 May 1961
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie.
01 October 1953
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
18 June 1953
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel.
06 December 1962
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
17 July 1956
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
10 March 1953
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl.
26 November 1953
Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.
28 November 1944
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St.
08 July 1948
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him.
04 May 1949
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship.
23 May 1945
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
26 November 1943
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles.
21 August 1959
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York.
01 December 1960
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
30 March 1976
Following twenty-three years of marriage to a philandering husband, divorcee Catherine Curtis begins life anew as a single woman.
11 June 1964
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world.
29 April 1943
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
31 March 1960
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country.
31 August 1950
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister.
22 February 1952
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air.
27 October 1945
A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help when the other tenants throw a last-minute rent party in her apartment.
14 November 1957
Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
29 June 1966
During the housing shortage of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
24 March 1955
In a musical retelling of the Cinderella tale, a mistreated scullery maid escapes the oppression of her stepfamily to finding love with a prince.
04 November 1955
A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.
04 October 1945
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
05 October 1945
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
01 March 1951
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman.
01 January 1964
This short film looks at the extensive wardrobe department that clothed the casts of MGM films into the 1960s.
