They wrote screenplays for several MGM musicals, from "Good News" to "The Bandwagon" to "Singing in the Rain, " which the American Film Institute named the greatest movie musical of all time.

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American stage and screen actor, John Kerr who starred in the 1958 musical film South Pacific, has died aged 81.

BBC: John Kerr, South Pacific actor dies aged 81