One of Broadway and film's most distinguished and gifted choreographers was born Milton Greenwald in Brooklyn on August 12, 1919. An engineering student at New York's City College at the time he began studying dance, he made his debut in his late teens and soon after was asked to join the American Ballet and the Ballet Caravan. Renaming himself Michael Kidd, he became a soloist for the American Ballet Theatre in 1942 and appeared auspiciously as Billy the Kid and Bluebeard, among other legen ...[Read Story]
