 Among the films whose dances he staged were "Show Boat" (1936), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), "Rhapsody in Blue" (1945), and "South Pacific" (1958).LeRoy Jerome Prinz was born in St. Joseph, Missouri.His grandfather was a dancing master, and his father taught ballroom dancing etiquette to young men and women at Prinz's Academy in St. Joseph.