Herbert Ross
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Herbert David Ross (May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001) was an American actor, choreographer, director and producer who worked predominantly in the stage and film.
Early life
Ross was born on May 13, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Louis Chester Ross, a postal clerk, and his wife Martha (née Grundfast). His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. When Ross was nine, his mother died and his father moved the family to Miami and opened a luncheonette.
After dropping out of high school, Ross went to New York to pursue an acting career but became smitten with and studied dance.
Personal life
In 1959, he married Nora Kaye, a ballerina, with whom he produced four films. In 1987, his wife Nora died of cancer.
In September 1988, he married for the second time to Lee Radziwiłł, the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The marriage ended in divorce in 2001, shortly before his death. In 2013, Radziwiłł described their relationship as follows:
On October 9, 2001, Ross died from heart failure in New York City. A memorial was held for him at the Majestic Theater on West 44th Street in New York where Leslie Browne, Barbara Cook, Arthur Laurents, Marsha Mason, Mike Nichols and Mary-Louise Parker spoke of Ross. He was interred with Kaye in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Career
Dancer
Ross' first appearance in 1942 as "Third Witch" in a Macbeth tour company. As a dancer, Something for the Boys would be his first Broadway performance credits. Ross was a dancer in Follow the Girls (1943–44), Laffing Room Only (1944–47), Beggar's Holiday (1946–47), and Look, Ma, Dancin'.
Choreographer
He was a choreographer with the American Ballet Theatre and choreographed his first Broadway performance, the Arthur Schwartz-Dorothy Fields musical interpretation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951). He choreographed All Star Revue, The Milton Berle Show, and The Steve Allen Plymouth Show. Ross' first film role was as an uncredited choreographer on Carmen Jones (1954).
He choreographed House of Flowers (1954) for Peter Brook, as well as The Body Beautiful (1958). The Jerry Lewis Show (1957), Wonderful Town (1958), Meet Me in St Louis (1959), and A Christmas Festival (1959). Ross curated and choreographed a revival of Finian's Rainbow (1960). Ross choreographed the original production of On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever, and after the musical ran into difficulties in Boston during its pre-Broadway tryout tour, the musical suffered.
Ross went to England where he choreographed the feature film The Young Ones (1961), starring Cliff Richard. He returned to Broadway to play musical director on The Gay Life (1961–621) and I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), the latter directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Barbra Streisand. He appeared in Bondage Gladiator Sexy (1961) for television. Ross choreographed a second Cliff Richard musical in England (1963). He choreographed Tovarich (1963) with Vivien Leigh and Any Can Whistle (1964) with Laurents. He did musical numbers for The Fantasticks (1964), The Bell Telephone Hour, Delia Scala Exhibition (1962), Rinaldo in campo (1963), and The Nut House. Inside Daisy Clover (1965) and staged numbers for the films Inside Daisy Clover (1964), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Doctor Dolittle (1966) and Doctor Dolittle (1967).
Do I Hear a Waltz? On Broadway Ross directed and choreographed Kelly (1965) and choreographed Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965-66), and On a Sunny Day You Can See Forever (1965-66). He did some additional staging on The Apple Tree (1966–67) directed by Mike Nichols. For Funny Girl (1968), directed by Ray Stark, Ross was choreographer and producer of musical numbers.
Mr. Chips (1969), a British film directed by MGM-British, stars Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark, made for television. It was directed by Arthur P. Jacobs who had made Doctor Dolittle two years earlier, and it was a box-office disappointment, similar to Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), Ross' second film as director, was a huge success. Ray Stark produced the film and starred Stichand.
Ross did T.R. ; Baskin (1971) then Play It Again, Sam (1972), the latter was produced by Jacobs and starring Woody Allen based on his role. Ross wrote The Last of Sheila (1973) co-written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, as well as The Funny Lady (1975) with Stark and Streisand. Ross based on a play and script by Neil Simon, sparking a long friendship between the two guys that has continued for years; Stark produced. Ross produced The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) and The Turning Point (1977); Ross produced the latter.
Ross had two big hits with Simon scripts from Stark, The Goodbye Girl (1977) and California Suite (1978). Ross came back to Broadway to direct Neil Simon's Chapter Two (1977–79). Simon Ought to Be in Pictures (1980–81), after doing the ballet film Nijinsky (1980). Pennies from Heaven (1981) and the film version of I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982) were followed by him. Max Dugan Returns (1983), his last film with Simon.
Footloose (1984) was Ross' biggest hit. He continued with two comedies, Protocol (1984) with Goldie Hawn and The Secret of My Achievement (1987) with Michael J. Fox is a cable television network. Dancers (1987) were less popular (1987).
Steel Magnolias (1989), Ross' last big hit in his latest play version, was Steel Magnolias (1989). He did My Blue Heaven (1990), True Colors (1991), Undercover Blues (1993) and Boys on the Side (1995).