Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue Skies", "White Christmas") author and publisher, he came to the United States at age 5 and was educated in New York's public schools. His earliest musical education was from his father, a cantor. He earned Honorary degrees from Bucknell University and Temple University...See full bio »
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Best Band in the Land
(2010)
(writer: "God Bless America", "Any Bonds Today?", "He Ain't Got Rhythm", "This Is the Army, Mr Jones" - uncredited, "That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear", "Mandy", "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" - uncredited, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" / performer: "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" - uncredited)
2008Warner at War
(TV documentary)
(writer: "Any Bonds Today?" - uncredited, "This Is The Army, Mr Jones" - uncredited, "Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning" - uncredited, "That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear" - uncredited / performer: "Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning" - uncredited)
2007The Brothers Warner
(documentary)
(writer: "Blue Skies" - uncredited, "How About a Cheer for the Navy" - uncredited, "That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear" - uncredited, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" - uncredited, "This Is the Army, Mr Jones" - uncredited / performer: "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" - uncredited)
2000Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci
(video documentary short)
(writer: "There's No Business Like Show Business", "They Say It's Wonderful", "Col. Buffalo Bill")
1997Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
(TV documentary)
(writer: "Alexander's Ragtime Band" - uncredited, "Now It Can Be Told" - uncredited, "Easter Parade" - uncredited, "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" - uncredited, "Marching Along with Time", "Some Sunny Day", "A Man Chases a Girl Until She Catches Him" - uncredited, "After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It" - uncredited, "There's No Business Like Show Business" - uncredited, "Heat Wave" - uncredited, "Anything You Can Do")
1994That's Entertainment! III
(documentary)
(writer: "Shakin' the Blues Away" 1927 - uncredited, "I'm an Indian Too" 1946 - uncredited, "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" 1946 - uncredited, "Mr. Monotony" 1947 - uncredited, "It Only Happens When I Dance with You" 1947 - uncredited, "Drum Crazy" 1948 - uncredited, "Anything You Can Do" 1946 - uncredited, "Shaking the Blues Away" 1927 - uncredited)
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The Fred Astaire Songbook
(1991)
(music: "Isn't It a Lovely Day", "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails", "Steppin' Out with My Baby", "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket", "Cheek to Cheek", "Let's Face the Music and Dance", "A Couple of Swells", "Drum Crazy" / lyrics: "Isn't It a Lovely Day", "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails", "Steppin' Out with My Baby", "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket", "Cheek to Cheek", "Let's Face the Music and Dance", "A Couple of Swells", "Drum Crazy")
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The Firestorm
(1976)
("A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody")
1976The Big Bus
(writer: "You're Just in Love I Wonder Why" 1950)
1976Silent Movie
(music: "Let's Face the Music and Dance")
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(writer: "Easter Parade" 1933 - uncredited, "Steppin' Out with My Baby" 1948 - uncredited, "A Couple of Swells" 1948 - uncredited, "There's No Business Like Show Business" 1946 - uncredited)
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Veteran's Day Show
(1969)
(writer: "This Is a Great Country" - uncredited, "Soft Lights and Sweet Music" - uncredited, "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" - uncredited, "Remember" - uncredited, "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" - uncredited, "How Deep Is the Ocean How High Is the Sky" - uncredited, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" - uncredited, "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" - uncredited, "God Bless America" - uncredited)
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Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman
(1967)
(music: "There's No Business Like Show Business" - uncredited / lyrics: "There's No Business Like Show Business" - uncredited)
1954There's No Business Like Show Business
(writer: "After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It" - uncredited, "Heat Wave" - uncredited, "Lazy" - uncredited, "There's No Business Like Show Business" - uncredited, "You'd Be Surprised" - uncredited, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" - uncredited, "A Sailor's Not a Sailor 'Til a Sailor's Been Tattooed" - uncredited, "A Man Chases a Girl Until She Catches Him" - uncredited, "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" - uncredited, "Simple Melody" - uncredited, "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" - uncredited, "If You Believe" - uncredited, "Let's Have Another Cup o' Coffee" - uncredited, "Remember" - uncredited, "Marie" - uncredited, "Ive'Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" - uncredited)
1954White Christmas
(music: "White Christmas", "The Old Man", "Hi Hup", "Heat Wave", "Blue Skies", "Sisters", "The Best Things Happen When You're Dancing", "Snow", "Minstrel Show", "Mandy", "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep", "Choreography", "Abraham", "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me", "What Can You Do With a General?", "Gee! I Wish I Was Back in the Army" / lyrics: "White Christmas", "The Old Man", "Hi Hup", "Heat Wave", "Blue Skies", "Sisters", "The Best Things Happen When You're Dancing", "Snow", "Minstrel Show", "Mandy", "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep", "Choreography", "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me", "What Can You Do With a General?", "Gee! I Wish I Was Back in the Army")
1953Call Me Madam
(writer: "The Hostess with the Mostes", "Can You Use Any Money Today", "Marrying for Love", "It's a Lovely Day Today", "That International Rag", "You're Just In Love", "The Ocarina", "What Chance Have I With Love?", "Something To Dance About", "The Best Thing For You Would be Me", "Mrs. Sally Adams" / music: "Lichtenburg" / lyrics: "Lichtenburg")
1950The Miniver Story
(writer: "The Girl That I Marry" - uncredited)
1950Annie Get Your Gun
(writer: "YOU CAN'T GET A MAN WITH A GUN", "DOIN' WHAT COMES NATUR'LLY", "I'M AN INDIAN TOO", "I GOT THE SUN IN THE MORNING", "ANYTHING YOU CAN DO", "THEY SAY IT'S WONDERFUL", "THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS", "COLONEL BUFFALO BILL", "MY DEFENSES ARE DOWN", "THE GIRL THAT I MARRY")
1949Jolson Sings Again
(writer: "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" - uncredited)
1948Easter Parade
(writer: "Happy Easter" - uncredited, "Drum Crazy" - uncredited, "It Only Happens When I Dance with You" - uncredited, "Everybody's Doin' It" - uncredited, "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" - uncredited, "Beautiful Faces Need Beautiful Clothes" - uncredited, "A Fella with an Umbrella" - uncredited, "I Love a Piano" - uncredited, "Snooky Ookums" - uncredited, "Ragtime Violin" - uncredited, "When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'" - uncredited, "Shakin' the Blues Away" - uncredited, "Steppin' Out with My Baby" - uncredited, "A Couple of Swells" - uncredited, "The Girl on the Magazine Cover" - uncredited, "Better Luck Next Time" - uncredited, "Easter Parade" - uncredited, "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon" - uncredited)
1948Big City
(writer: "God Bless America" - uncredited, "What'll I Do?" - uncredited)
1946Blue Skies
(music: "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody", "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now", "You'd Be Surprised", "All by Myself", "Serenade to an Old-Fashioned Girl", "Puttin' on the Ritz", "I'll See You in C-U-B-A", "A Couple of Song and Dance Men", "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song", "Blue Skies", "The Little Things in Life", "Not for All the Rice in China", "Russian Lullaby", "Everybody Step", "How Deep Is the Ocean?", " Running Around in Circles Getting Nowhere", "Heat Wave", "Any Bonds Today?", "This Is the Army, Mister Jones", "White Christmas", "Always", "Serenade for an Old-Fashioned Girl" / lyrics: "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody", "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now", "You'd Be Surprised", "All by Myself", "Serenade to an Old-Fashioned Girl", "Puttin' on the Ritz", "I'll See You in C-U-B-A", "A Couple of Song and Dance Men", "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song", "Blue Skies", "The Little Things in Life", "Not for All the Rice in China", "Russian Lullaby", "Everybody Step", "How Deep Is the Ocean?", " Running Around in Circles Getting Nowhere", "Heat Wave", "Any Bonds Today?", "This Is the Army, Mister Jones", "White Christmas", "Always", "Serenade for an Old-Fashioned Girl")
1946The Jolson Story
(writer: "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" - uncredited)
1945No Buddy Atoll
(short)
(writer: "All Alone" - uncredited)
1945War Comes to America
(documentary)
(writer: "This Is the Army Mister Jones" - uncredited)
1944The Negro Soldier
(documentary short)
(writer: "Arms For The Love Of America" - uncredited)
1943This Is the Army
(writer: "It's Your Country and My Country", "My Sweetie", "Poor Little Me, I'm on KP", "We're on Our Way to France", "God Bless America", "What Does He Look Like", "This Is the Army, Mr Jones", "I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep", "Mandy", "The Army's Made a Man Out of Me", "Ladies of the Chorus", "That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear", "How About a Cheer for the Navy", "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen", "With My Head in the Clouds", "American Eagles", "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning", "This Time", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Hostesses of the Stage Door Canteen", "Good-Bye France", "I Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the Y.M.C.A." / performer: "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning")
1943Show-Business at War
(documentary short)
(writer: "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" - uncredited, "This Is the Army, Mr Jones" - uncredited / performer: "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" - uncredited)
1943Hello Frisco, Hello
(lyrics: "The Dance of the Grizzly Bear" - uncredited)
1942Holiday Inn
(music: "I'll Capture Your Heart Singing" 1942, "Lazy" 1924, "You're Easy to Dance With" 1942, "White Christmas" 1942, "Happy Holiday" 1942, "Come To Holiday Inn" 1942, "Let's Start the New Year Right" 1942, "Abraham" 1942, "Be Careful, It's My Heart" 1942, "I Can't Tell a Lie" 1942, "Easter Parade" 1933, "Let's Say It with Firecrackers" 1942, "Song of Freedom" 1942, "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For" 1942, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" 1918 / lyrics: "I'll Capture Your Heart Singing" 1942, "Lazy" 1924, "You're Easy to Dance With" 1942, "White Christmas" 1942, "Happy Holiday" 1942, "Come To Holiday Inn" 1942, "Let's Start the New Year Right" 1942, "Abraham" 1942, "Be Careful, It's My Heart" 1942, "I Can't Tell a Lie" 1942, "Easter Parade" 1933, "Let's Say It with Firecrackers" 1942, "Song of Freedom" 1942, "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For" 1942, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" 1918)
1941Louisiana Purchase
(writer: "LAWYER'S LETTER", "IT'S NEW TO US", "YOU'RE LONELY AND I'M LONELY", "LOUISIANA PURCHASE", "IT'S A LOVELY DAY TOMORROW", "DANCE WITH ME TONIGHT AT THE MARDI GRAS", "YOU CAN'T BRUSH ME OFF", "THE LORD DONE FIXED UP MY SOUL", "FOOLS FALL IN LOVE", "SEX MARCHES ON")
1939Second Fiddle
(writer: "When Winter Comes", "I'm Sorry for Myself", "I Poured My Heart Into A Song", "An Old Fashioned Tune Is Always New", "The Song of the Metronome", "Back to Back")
1939Idiot's Delight
(writer: "Puttin' on the Ritz" - uncredited)
1938Carefree
(music: "Since They Turned Loch Lomand into Swing" 1938 - uncredited, "Carefree" 1938 - uncredited, "I Used To Be Color Blind" 1938 - uncredited, "The Yam" 1938 - uncredited, "Change Partners" 1938 - uncredited / lyrics: "I Used To Be Color Blind" 1938 - uncredited, "The Yam" 1938 - uncredited, "Change Partners" 1938 - uncredited)
1938Alexander's Ragtime Band
(writer: "Alexander's Ragtime Band" 1911 - uncredited, "Ragtime Violin" 1911 - uncredited, "That International Rag" 1913 - uncredited, "Everybody's Doin' It Now" 1911 - uncredited, "Now It Can Be Told" 1938 - uncredited, "This Is the Life" 1914 - uncredited, "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" 1912 - uncredited, "For Your Country and My Country" 1917 - uncredited, "I Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the Y.M.C.A." 1918 - uncredited, "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" 1918 - uncredited, "We're On Our Way to France" 1918 - uncredited, "Say It with Music" 1921 - uncredited, "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" 1919 - uncredited, "Blue Skies" 1927 - uncredited, "Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil" 1922 - uncredited, "What'll I Do" 1924 - uncredited, "My Walking Stick" 1938 - uncredited, "Remember" 1925 - uncredited, "Everybody Step" 1921 - uncredited, "All Alone" 1924 - uncredited, "Marie" 1928 - uncredited, "Cheek to Cheek" 1935 - uncredited, "Easter Parade" 1933 - uncredited, "Heat Wave" 1933 - uncredited, "Marching Along with Time" 1938 - uncredited, "Some Sunny Day" 1922 - uncredited, "In My Harem" 1913 - uncredited)
1937On the Avenue
(music: "He Ain't Got Rhythm" 1937 - uncredited, "Cheek to Cheek" 1935 - uncredited, "The Girl on the Police Gazette" 1937 - uncredited, "You're Laughing at Me" 1937 - uncredited, "This Year's Kisses" 1937 - uncredited, "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" 1937 - uncredited, "Slumming on Park Avenue" 1937 - uncredited / lyrics: "He Ain't Got Rhythm" 1937 - uncredited, "Cheek to Cheek" 1935 - uncredited, "The Girl on the Police Gazette" 1937 - uncredited, "You're Laughing at Me" 1937 - uncredited, "This Year's Kisses" 1937 - uncredited, "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" 1937 - uncredited, "Slumming on Park Avenue" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Way Out West
(music: "I Want to Be in Dixie" 1912 - uncredited / lyrics: "I Want to Be in Dixie" 1912 - uncredited)
1936Follow the Fleet
(writer: "We Saw the Sea" 1936 - uncredited, "Let Yourself Go" 1936 - uncredited, "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan" 1935 - uncredited, "I'd Rather Lead a Band" 1936 - uncredited, "But Where Are You?" 1935 - uncredited, "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" 1936 - uncredited, "Let's Face the Music and Dance" 1932 - uncredited)
1936The Great Ziegfeld
(writer: "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" 1919 - uncredited, "Yiddle on Your Fiddle" 1910 - uncredited)
1935Top Hat
(music: "No Strings I'm Fancy Free" 1935 - uncredited, "Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught in the Rain?" 1935 - uncredited, "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" 1935 - uncredited, "Cheek to Cheek" 1935 - uncredited, "The Piccolino" 1935 - uncredited, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" 1911 - uncredited / lyrics: "No Strings I'm Fancy Free" 1935 - uncredited, "Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught in the Rain?" 1935 - uncredited, "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" 1935 - uncredited, "Cheek to Cheek" 1935 - uncredited, "The Piccolino" 1935 - uncredited)
1935Ticket or Leave It
(short)
(music: "Lazy", "Blue Skies", "All Alone", "Always" / lyrics: "Lazy", "Blue Skies", "All Alone", "Always")
1930Puttin' on the Ritz
(music: "With You" 1930, "Puttin' on the Ritz" 1930, "Alice in Wonderland" 1930 / lyrics: "With You" 1930, "Puttin' on the Ritz" 1930, "Alice in Wonderland" 1930)
1930Reaching for the Moon
(writer: "When the Folks High Up Do the Mean Low-Down" - uncredited, "Reaching for the Moon" - uncredited)
1930Roseland
(short)
(writer: "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" - uncredited)
1930With Byrd at the South Pole
(documentary)
(music: "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" - uncredited)
1930Hells Heels
(short)
(writer: "The Near Future How Dry I Am" - uncredited)
1930Mammy
(writer: "Across the Breakfast Table Looking at You" - uncredited, "Here We Are" - uncredited, "In the Morning", "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" - uncredited, "To My Mammy" - uncredited)
(27 April 1911-8 July 1911) Broadway - "Hell/Temptations/Gaby". Musical revue. Note: "Gaby" (one of 3 productions in this rotating revue) was the only one involving Mr. Berlin. Music by Robert Hood Bowers, Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder and Vincent Bryan. Directed by George F. Marion. Folies-Bergere;...
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