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- Birth nameDonald Edward Saddler
- Donald Saddler was born on January 24, 1918 in Van Nuys, California, USA. He is known for Un mandarino per Teo (1960), Shower of Stars (1954) and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953). He died on November 1, 2014 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Choreographer: in 1953 for "Wonderful Town" and in 1971 for "No, No Nanette." He also received two other nominations in the same category: in 1973 for "Much Ado About Nothing" and in 1983 for "On Your Toes."
- Since 2001, twice a week Champion meets with former dancer/choreographer Donald Saddler in a rented dance room in New York, where they dance together for an hour or two. Both are in their mid-80s.
- Appeared in the chorus of several of MGM's big-budget musicals of the 1930s and early 1940s including The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Born to Dance (1936), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), _Rosalie_, The Great Waltz (1938), Sweethearts (1938), Broadway Serenade (1939), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Babes in Arms (1939), Strike Up the Band (1940), Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940), Lady Be Good (1941), and Ziegfeld Girl (1941).
- He began taking dance lessons as a youth, in order to recover from an attack of scarlet fever.
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