Alex Romero was an American choreographer, born in 1913 in San Antonio, who died in 2007.
Biography
Alejandro Bernardo Quiroga, better known as Alex Romero (August 20, 1913 – September 8, 2007) was an American dancer and choreographer who was noted for directing Elvis Presley's dancing in the movie Jailhouse Rock and for working with noted dancers and choreographers at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) during the 1940s and 1950s.
In addition to choreographing Jailhouse Rock, Romero worked with performers and choreographers who included Gene Kelly, Hermes Pan, Stanley Donen, Fred Astaire, and Michael Kidd in films that included On the Town and An American in Paris, in which he also performed during ballet sequences. He also staged dances as in the films Easter Parade, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Kiss Me Kate and television shows.
Romero has been called "the last link to the Golden Age of movie musicals."
Contemporaries
Ellen Albertini Dow
American actress (1913–2015)
Marc Platt
American ballet dancer, musical theatre performer, and actor (1913-2014)
Waldeen Falkenstein
Mexican ballet dancer and choreographer (1913-1993)
Gene Kelly
American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer (1912–1996)
James Starbuck
American ballet dancer and choreographer (1912-1997)
Kay Teer Crawford
National Dance Competition Producer (1914-2001)
Archie Savage
American actor, dancer, and choreographer (1914-2003)
Tommy Wonder
American dancer (1914-1993)
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