Article: AGNES DE MILLE BIO REPORTS WARTS AND ALL.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

Byline: Jennifer Dunning New York Times News Service.

Carol Easton has a difficult job in her biography of Agnes de Mille. De Mille, choreographer of Oklahoma! and other Broadway hits as well as ballets, had become a beloved icon by the time of her death in 1993, a few weeks after her 88th birthday, a colorful and indomitable fighter against the Jobian perils that had descended on her in old age.

She is widely credited with reshaping the Broadway musical with her generous-hearted dances for the 1943 Oklahoma! She brought a new kind of psychological drama to ballet with Rodeo and Fall River Legend, celebrating American characters and American dance forms ...

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