LeRoy Jerome Prinz was an American choreographer, director and producer, who was involved in the production of dozens of motion pictures, mainly for Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers, from 1929 through 1958, and choreographed Broadway musicals. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Dance Direction in the 1930s, and won the Golden Globe in 1958.
LeRoy Prinz and dancers at Paramount
Prinz clashed with Agnes de Mille while staging dances for her uncle's film Cleopatra (1934).
In Prinz's choreography of films like Yankee Doodle Dandy, the camera was like a member of the audience.
Agnes George de Mille was an American dancer and choreographer.
Agnes de Mille (1941) playing 'The Priggish Virgin' in the ballet Three Virgins and a Devil (Tre Vergini e un Diavolo) photographed by Carl Van Vechten
Agnes de Mille in her apartment in 1978 photographed by Lynn Gilbert