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The Band Wagon , which featured the music and lyrics of Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz , included an extensive dance sequence at the end, the "Girl Hunt Ballet" featuring Astaire and Charisse, which was a spoof of hard-boiled Mickey Spillane novels. Kidd was hired to stage the film's dances at Astaire's request, because he was nervous about the ballet. Kidd said that he made Astaire comfortable by pretending that he was just making up the steps spontaneously.

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Kidd's work for the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers brought him acclaim. He initially turned down the assignment, recalling in They have no schooling, they are uncouth, there's manure on the floor, the cows come in and out—and they're gonna get up and dance? We'd be laughed out of the house. Mercer said that the musical numbers were written at Kidd's behest, as an example "of how a songwriter sometimes has to take his cue from his collaborators". By the mids Hollywood's output of movie musicals had begun to wane, and he worked on only two during that decade.

The film featured an exuberant number in which the three dance with garbage can lids fastened to their feet. The downbeat film was a critical success but was not heavily promoted by the studio, and failed at the box office. The production was marked by constant strife between Donen and Kelly, with much of it stemming from Donen striving unsuccessfully to include a ten-minute dance solo by Kidd, "Jack and the Space Giants".

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Kelly rejected that, which Kidd took as a personal insult, and Donen went further, ending his collaboration with Kelly for the rest of their lives. The "Jack" number appears as a bonus feature on a DVD of the film, and one commentator suggests that Kelly's judgment was not wrong, as the number was listless and did not advance the plot. Kidd was both director and choreographer for the musical comedy film Merry Andrew , starring Danny Kaye. By the then the era of movie musicals was pretty much over, and Kidd turned his attention to Broadway, where he had continued to work while choreographing movies.

In that show he created dance numbers for Gwen Verdon which helped make her a Broadway sensation. His other Broadway shows during the s included Li'l Abner in , which he directed as well as choreographed. He won another Tony Award for his choreography, which was adapted for the film version in After Merry Andrew, however, he made no other films until Star!

Neither film was successful. He also choreographed the famous Broadway flop Breakfast at Tiffany's , a musical version of the Truman Capote novella with Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain that never officially opened. He choreographed the film adaptation of the hit Broadway play Hello, Dolly! The film was beset by tension on the unhappy set, with Barbra Streisand clashing with her costar Walter Matthau and director Gene Kelly ; Kidd also had conflicts with costume designer Irene Sharaff and Kelly, to the point that he and Kelly were no longer on speaking terms. Critic Tom Santopietro described their approach as "shoveling more and more bodies on screen with no apparent purpose".

Not that any director could overcome this musical's physical production. Kidd appeared in supporting roles as a character actor in the s and s, beginning with his performance as the faded, cynical choreographer for a cheesy beauty pageant in the satirical film Smile , which starred Bruce Dern. Film critic Roger Ebert called Kidd's portrayal of the pageant choreographer a "finely etched semiautobiographical performance".

Kidd died of cancer at the age 92 at his home in Los Angeles, California. His marriage to the dancer Mary Heater in ended in divorce. At his death he was survived by his wife Shelah Hackett, whom he married in , two daughters from his first marriage and a son and daughter from his second. Kidd was the uncle of filmmaker and political activist, Robert Greenwald. His older brother was Harold Greenwald , a prominent psychotherapist and best-selling author of the book The Call Girl , who was an expert in the study of prostitution.

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Kidd was unusually well-respected, and his judgment was granted deference by the leading dancers of his era. British critic and biographer Michael Freedland said at the time of his death that "when Gene Kelly danced through the street with a dustbin lid tied to his feet in the film It's Always Fair Weather , the man who usually planned his own routines did it to Kidd's order".

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His realistic approach, designing dances that were inspired by the way ordinary people behaved, led one critic to observe that "Kidd is, in a way, the originator of the fantasy that if only your life shaped up and offered you the right moments, you too would be able to dance like a Hollywood star". Kidd believed that dance needed to derive from life, saying that his "dancing is based on naturalistic movement that is abstracted and enlarged", and that "all my movements relate to some kind of real activity".

He always wanted dance to serve the story, and when beginning a new work he would write a scenario, explaining how the plot drove the characters to dance.

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