Stanley Donen, like Gene Kelly, started out as a dancer before branching out into film directing. As a Jewish kid in a mostly non-Jewish town in South Carolina, Donen was bullied at school and Donen turned to the movies as an escape, particularly the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Flying Down to Rio. On family trips to New York, Donen took dance lessons, eventually dropping out of college to move to New York to pursue dance full time. Soon he was cast as a chorus dancer in the Broadway...