Michael Kidd (August 12, 1915 – December 23, 2007) was an American
film and
stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and staged some of the leading
Broadway and
film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Kidd, who was strongly influenced by
Charlie Chaplin and
Léonide Massine, was an innovator in what came to be known as the "integrated musical", in which dance movements are integral to the plot.