Paul Godkin was a versatile choreographer who worked in Hollywood films and on stage productions in Las Vegas, New York and Paris. A student of noted LA-based dancers Theodore Kosloff and Ernest Fletcher, Godkin first danced professional in a mid-1930s Hollywood Bowl production of "The Bartered Bride" opposite Agnes de Mille. In 1937, George Balanchine personally requested that Godkin join the American Ballet Theater. From there Godkin worked on several Broadway productions before serving with the Navy during WW II. Afterward he became a choreographer. In films, he choreographed dance scenes in several films including My Geisha, Our Man Flint, and How to Be Very, Very, Popular. He has also worked in television. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi