16 March 1976: Derek Malcolm pays tribute to the film director who had an age named after himIt was once fashionable to call Busby Berkeley,the pioneering Hollywood dance director who has died aged 80, a vulgarian whose garish confections, and generally involving women as fruits ripe for plucking,were the epitome of American bad taste.
Now, even in the age of women’s liberation, and a nostalgic world takes a gentler view. The girly-merchandising Busby ballets are regarded more as celebratory masterpieces of art deco than as exploitative male fantasies. He even has an era named after him,which is more than you can say for Ingmar Bergman.
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Source: theguardian.com