Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 - June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress and singer, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz". Garland's singing voice had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at an extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song.

Eugene Curran Kelly, better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in "Singin' in the Rain", …

Frank Morgan (June 1, 1890 - September 18, 1949) was an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film "The Wizard of Oz". Born Francis Phillip Wuppermann in New York City to the wealthy family which distributed Angostura bitters, he attended Cornell University where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He then followed his older brother Ralph Morgan into show business, …

Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim was a Tony Award-winning American comic actor. Born in New York City, he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz", but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway.

Jack Haley --born John Joseph Haley, Jr.--was an American film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and farmworker Hickory in "The Wizard of Oz". Haley starred in vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedian. One of his closest friends was fellow vaudeville alumnus Fred Allen, who would frequently mention "Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts" on the air. In the early 1930s Haley starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York.

Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer and actress, who was christened Johnnie Lucille Collier. Born in Chireno, Texas (some sources cite Houston, where she was raised), her father insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was often called Annie. She took up dancing to exercise her legs to help her rickets. She was considered a child dance prodigy.

Esther Jane Williams (born August 8, 1921 or 1922) is a retired United States competitive swimmer and movie star, famous for her musical films that featured elaborate performances with swimming and diving.

Howard Keel, born Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 - November 7, 2004) was an American actor who starred in many of the classic film musicals of the 1950s.

Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 - April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. In a film career spanning fifty years she made a total of seventy-three films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre.

Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. Movie fans know him best for his bravura performance in the musical "Singin’ in the Rain" (1952), in which he performed the vaudeville-inspired comedy number "Make 'Em Laugh", …

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. on September 23, 1920), is an American film actor and musician whose career began in 1922 at seventeen months and has continued through 2007.

Cyd Charisse is an American dancer and actress. She was born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1921, in Amarillo, Texas. Reputedly, the name "Cyd" was a nickname resulting from the inability of a sibling to pronounce the word "Sis". Cyd Charisse had celebrated on-screen pairings with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly .

James Mitchell is an American dancer and actor. Although he is best-known to television audiences as Palmer Cortlandt on the soap opera "All My Children" (1979 - present), theatre and dance historians remember him as one of Agnes de Mille's leading dancers.

Kathryn Grayson (born February 9, 1922) is an American actress and singer who was born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Hedrick family later moved to Franlin, St Louis, where she was discovered singing on the empty stage of the St Louis Municipal Opera House by a janitor, who introduced her to Frances Marshall of the Chicago Civic Opera, who gave the twelve-year-old-girl voice lessons.

Jane Powell (born April 1, 1929) is an American singer, entertainer and actor. She was the petite blonde with an operatic singing voice in many MGM musicals in the 1940s and 1950s.

Lee Curreri (born Leonard Charles Curreri on January 4, 1961) is an American actor and musician. He was born in the Bronx, New York. Curreri is best known for his role as Bruno Martelli (the keyboard maven) in the film "Fame" and its spinoff TV series.