Marc Breaux (November 3, 1924 – November 19, 2013) was an American

choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

and occasional film director best known for his work on musical films of the 1960s and 1970s. Most of his well-known work was in collaboration with Dee Dee Wood to whom he was married for many years. Much of Breaux's best recognized work was also in collaboration with the songwriting

Sherman Brothers The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928). Together they received various accolades in ...

. In 1948 he appeared on Broadway in the original cast of '' Kiss Me, Kate'' at the New Century Theatre in New York City and in 1958 he appeared in '' Li'l Abner'' at the St. James Theatre, also in New York City. Marc Breaux with Dee Dee Wood, choreographed the Broadway musical '' Do-Re-Mi,'' from 1960 through 1962. Following some health issues in the late 1970s, Breaux went to work for ex-producer Nick Vanoff at Vanoff's Hollywood post-production company Complete Post. Breaux was videotape operator for the company for nearly 20 years until his retirement in the mid-1990s.

Filmography

*'' Design for Dreaming'' (1956) dancer *'' The Andy Williams Show'' (1962) TV Series (choreographer) (1962–1963) *''Judy and Her Guests'', Phil Silvers and

Robert Goulet Robert Gérard Goulet (November 26, 1933 October 30, 2007) was an American and Canadian singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts until age 13, and then spent his formative years in Cana ...

(1963) (TV) (choreographer) *"The Hollywood Palace", (1964–1970) (TV) (choreographer-director) *'' The King Family Show'' (1965/66) (TV) (director-choreographer) *'' Mary Poppins'' (1964) (choreographer), voice of singing cow *'' The Sound of Music'' (1965) (choreographer) *'' The Happiest Millionaire'' (1967) (stager: musical numbers) *''

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' is a 1968 musical-fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes with a screenplay co-written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel '' Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car'' (1964). The film stars ...

'' (1968) (choreographer) *'' Of Thee I Sing'' (1972) (TV) (choreographer) *'' Huckleberry Finn'' (1974) (choreographer) *'' The Slipper and the Rose'' (1976) (choreographer) *'' Sextette'' (1978) (choreographer)

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Marc Breaux
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