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Dance Magazine, August, 2003 by Allan Ulrich

1995 Honorary Chevalier member of the Order of Letters and Arts, France

1992 Jazz Dance World Congress Award

1988 "Golden Eight" award for jazz choreography, from the International Groupe des Huit

1987 Dodeur Honoris, Federation Francaise de Danse

1974 Edinburgh Festival award for choreography

1964 Dance Masters of America award for choreographer of the year, for the Bell Telephone Hour

1958 Dance Educators of America award for distinctive contribution to dance

FILMS (dancer, often uncredited):

Yolonda and the Thief(1945), Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), Good News (1947), The Merry Widow (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), The Glory Brigade (choreographer, 1953), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Walking My Baby Back Home (1953), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Caleb Pontipee, 1954), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), The Girl Rush (1955), Hot Blood (choreographer, 1956), That's Dancing! (archival footage, as himself, 1985)

THEATER

Broadway: Say, Darling (choreographer and dancer, 1958); Jennie (choreographer, 1963); Carnival in Flanders, The Vamp, Brigadoon, What Makes Sammy Run? (dancer) Off Broadway: Once Upon a Mattress (dancer)

TV (performer and/or choreographer): Pinocchio (1957), The Patti Page Show (1958), The Texaco Oil Show ("Swinging Into Spring," with Benny Goodman, 1959), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1961), Bell Telephone Hour (1963), The Dinah Shore Show, The Ed Sullivan Show (1954)