Although there's no confirmation of Vincenzo working at Ohio Wesleyan University, he was indeed a music teacher and composer. While traveling as a piano demonstrator for Knabe Pianos, Vincenzo met his future wife Nina Picket during a stop in Delaware, Ohio. After the Bourbon return to power Vincenzo reportedly hid in the catacombs of Palermo for 18 months before being successfully smuggled onto a New York-bound fruit steamer. Domenico Minnelli had been Vice-Chancellor of the Gran Corte Civile in Palermo at the time he helped organize the Januuprising there. Paternal grandfather Vincenzo Minnelli and great-uncle Domenico Minnelli, both Sicilian revolutionaries, were forced to leave Sicily after the collapse of the provisional Sicilian government that arose from the 1848 revolution against Ferdinand II and Bourbon rule. The family toured small towns primarily in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois before settling permanently in Delaware, Ohio. His Chicago-born mother was of French Canadian descent with a strong probability of Native American (Anishinaabe) lineage included via her Mackinac Island, Michigan born mother. His father was musical conductor of Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater.
He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951 they were the parents of Liza Minnelli.īorn and baptized as Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago, he was the youngest of four known sons, only two of whom survived to adulthood, born to Marie Émilie Odile Lebeau (stage name: Mina Gennell) and Vincent Charles Minnelli. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas. Louis, Gigi, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris.
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Vincente Minnelli (Febru– July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St.
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