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Alan Jay Lerner has 0 writing credits in the Nutevio catalogue.

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Alan Jay Lerner has 0 writing credits in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Lerner set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Arthur Freed
Producer
4 shared titles · Gigi

Vincente Minnelli
Director
3 shared titles · Gigi

Leslie Caron
Actor
2 shared titles · Gigi

Gene Kelly
Actor
2 shared titles · Brigadoon

Albert Sharpe
Actor
2 shared titles · Brigadoon

Frederick Loewe
Original Music Composer
2 shared titles · Camelot

Joshua Logan
Director
2 shared titles · Camelot

Jack L. Warner
Producer
2 shared titles · Camelot

Joseph Ruttenberg
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · Gigi
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