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Overview

Date of Death:
31 March 1963, Hollywood, California, USA more
Trivia:
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.
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Filmography

Jump to filmography as: Soundtrack, Composer, Actor, Music Department, Writer, Self
Soundtrack:
  1. "Por Toda Minha Vida" (1 episode, 2006)
        - Elis Regina (2006) TV episode (writer: "Baby Face")
  2. Son of the Mask (2005) (writer: "Baby Face")
    ... aka Die Maske 2 - Die nächste Generation (Germany)
  3. "Justice League" (1 episode, 2004)
    ... aka JL (USA: promotional abbreviation)
    ... aka Justice League Unlimited (USA: third season title)
        - This Little Piggy (2004) TV episode (music: "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
  4. Big Fish (2003) (writer: "Dinah")
  5. Hope Springs (2003) (writer: "Am I Blue")
  6. Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003) (TV) (writer: "Dinah")
  7. "Gilmore Girls" (1 episode, 2002)
    ... aka Gilmore Girls: Beginnings (USA: rerun title)
        - Take the Deviled Eggs... (2002) TV episode (performer: "Baby Face")
  8. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) ("Guilty")
    ... aka Amélie (France: working title) (International: English title) (USA)
    ... aka Amelie (Australia) (UK)
    ... aka Amelie from Montmartre (International: English title)
    ... aka Amelie of Montmartre (International: English title: festival title)
    ... aka Die fabelhafte Welt der Amelie (Germany)
    ... aka The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain (USA: literal English title)

  9. U.S. Marshals (1998) (writer: "AM I BLUE?")
  10. Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994) (writer: "Am I Blue?")
    ... aka Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow (USA: alternative title)
  11. Sharon, Lois & Bram Sing A to Z (1992) (V) ("Baby Face")

  12. Slaves of New York (1989) (writer: "Am I Blue?")
  13. The Last Emperor (1987) (music: "Am I Blue" (1929))
    ... aka L'ultimo imperatore (Italy)
    ... aka Le dernier empereur (France)
    ... aka Modai huangi (China: Cantonese title)
  14. The Color of Money (1986) (lyrics: "Anema e core")
  15. The Cotton Club (1984) (music: "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
  16. Phar Lap (1983) (music: "Baby Face")
    ... aka A Horse Called Phar Lap (USA: promotional title)
    ... aka Phar Lap: Heart of a Nation
    ... aka Phar Lap: Hero to a Nation (Australia: promotional title)

  17. Sextette (1978) (writer: "Baby Face")
  18. "All in the Family" (1 episode, 1976)
        - Gloria's False Alarm (1976) TV episode (writer: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  19. "The Brady Bunch Hour" (1 episode, 1976)
        - Pilot (1976) TV episode (music: "Baby Face")
  20. Funny Lady (1975) (music: "Am I Blue")
  21. "The Waltons" (1 episode, 1974)
        - The Marathon (1974) TV episode (writer: "Baby Face" (1926)(uncredited))
  22. "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" (1 episode, 1972)
        - Episode #2.8 (1972) TV episode (writer: "Am I blue")
  23. "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1 episode, 1970)
    ... aka The Best of Carson (USA: rerun title)
        - Episode dated 12 August 1970 (1970) TV episode (writer: "Am I Blue")
  24. "The David Frost Show" (1 episode, 1970)
        - Episode #2.157 (1970) TV episode (writer: "Am I Blue")

  25. "The Mike Douglas Show" (1 episode, 1969)
        - Episode dated 20 November 1969 (1969) TV episode (writer: "Am I Blue?")
  26. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) (music: "Baby Face")
  27. "The Dean Martin Show" (1 episode, 1967)
    ... aka The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (USA: new title)
        - Episode dated 9 March 1967 (1967) TV episode (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  28. "The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" (1 episode, 1965)
    ... aka Ozzie and Harriet
        - Rick Grows a Beard (1965) TV episode (music: "Dinah")
  29. The Iceman Ducketh (1964) (music: "Baby Face") (lyrics: "Baby Face")
  30. "Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine" (1 episode, 1962)
    ... aka The Jackie Gleason Show: The American Scene Magazine (USA: long title)
        - Episode #1.1 (1962) TV episode (music: "Baby Face")
  31. "The Perry Como Show" (1 episode, 1960)
    ... aka Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (USA: new title)
    ... aka The Chesterfield Supper Club
        - Episode dated 25 May 1960 (1960) TV episode (music: "Dinah" (uncredited))

  32. The Helen Morgan Story (1957) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
    ... aka Both Ends of the Candle (UK)
    ... aka Why Was I Born? (USA: alternative title)
  33. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  34. There Auto Be a Law (1953) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  35. We're Not Married! (1952) (music: "Baby Face")
  36. Ballot Box Bunny (1951) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  37. Strangers on a Train (1951) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
    ... aka Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (USA: complete title)
  38. Chow Hound (1951) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited), "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
  39. Scent-imental Romeo (1951) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  40. It's Hummer Time (1950) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  41. An Egg Scramble (1950) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  42. Young Man with a Horn (1950) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
    ... aka Young Man of Music (UK)
    ... aka Young Man with a Trumpet (Australia)

  43. Often an Orphan (1949) (music: "Baby Face")
  44. Jolson Sings Again (1949) (music: "Baby Face")
  45. The Grey Hounded Hare (1949) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  46. Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  47. Riff Raffy Daffy (1948) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  48. Cry of the City (1948) (music: "Baby Face" (uncredited))
  49. Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (1948) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  50. The Street with No Name (1948) (writer: "BABY FACE")
  51. This Time for Keeps (1947) (writer: "Why Don't They Let Me Sing a Love Song?" (uncredited), "Little Big Shot")
  52. One Meat Brawl (1947) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  53. Booby Hatched (1944) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  54. To Have and Have Not (1944) (music: "Am I Blue?")
    ... aka Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not (UK) (USA: complete title)
  55. Three Brothers (1944) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  56. Pay Day (1944) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  57. Greenwich Village (1944) (music: "Baby Face")
  58. The Impatient Years (1944) (writer: "Who Said Dreams Don't Come True?")
  59. Show Business (1944) (music: "Dinah")
  60. Rosie the Riveter (1944) (writer: "Why Can't I Sing a Love Song?")
    ... aka In Rosie's Room
  61. Baby Puss (1943) (music: "Baby Face")
  62. Is Everybody Happy? (1943) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  63. Lady of Burlesque (1943) (music: "Take It off the E-String", "So This Is You")
    ... aka Striptease Lady (UK)
    ... aka The G-String Murders
  64. The Hard Way (1943) (music: "Am I Blue?" (1929) (uncredited))
  65. The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943) (music: "Am I Blue")
  66. Ding Dog Daddy (1942) (music: "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
  67. Casablanca (1942) (music: "Baby Face" (1926) (uncredited))
  68. Broadway (1942) (music: "Dinah" (uncredited))
  69. Wabbit Twouble (1941) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  70. Her First Beau (1941) (music: "This Is Love")
  71. Shooting High (1940) (music: "On the Rancho with My Pancho" (1940) (uncredited))
  72. Cinderella's Feller (1940) (music: "In the Land of Let's Pretend")
  73. Slap Happy Pappy (1940) (music: "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
  74. Confederate Honey (1940) (music: "Am I Blue?" (1929) (uncredited))
  75. Johnny Apollo (1940) (music: "Baby Face" (1926) (uncredited))

  76. Boy Friend (1939) (music: "Doin' The Socialite")
  77. A Day at the Zoo (1939) (music: "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
  78. Up the River (1938) (writer: "It's The Strangest Thing", "Song of Rockwell")
  79. Streamlined Swing (1938) (music: "Dinah" (1925) (uncredited))
  80. Rascals (1938) (writer: "Blue Is The Evening", "Take A Tip From A Gypsy", "Song Of A Gypsy Band")
  81. Battle of Broadway (1938) (music: "Daughter of Mademoiselle", "Legionaires")
  82. Walking Down Broadway (1938) (music: "Good-Bye My Heart (Good Luck to You)")
  83. International Settlement (1938) (writer: "You Made Me That Way", "Shrug")
  84. Fight for Your Lady (1937) (music: "Blame It on the Danube" (1937))
  85. September in the Rain (1937) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  86. Big Town Girl (1937) (music: "Argentine Swing,", "Don't Throw Kisses", "I'll Settle for Love")
  87. Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937) (music: "Dinah" (1925) (uncredited))
  88. The Lyin' Mouse (1937) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  89. Porky's Garden (1937) (music: "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
  90. Talent Scout (1937) (music: "Am I Blue?" (1929) (uncredited))
    ... aka Studio Romance (UK)
  91. Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937) (music: "The Shy Violet")
  92. Wild and Woolly (1937) (music: "Whoa Whoopee, Whoa Whipee (Yippy-I-O-I-Ay)")
  93. She Had to Eat (1937) (music: "Living on the Town", "When a Girl from Alabama Meets a Boy from Tennessee")
  94. Sing and Be Happy (1937) (music: "Pickles", "What a Beautiful Beginning", "Travelin' Light", "Sing and Be Happy")
  95. Round-Up Time in Texas (1937) (music: "Dinah" (1925))
  96. The Holy Terror (1937) (music: "Don't Sing-Everybody Swing", "There I Go Again", "I Don't Know Myself Since I Know You", "The Call of the Siren")
  97. Woman-Wise (1937) (writer: "You're a Knockout")
  98. Don't Look Now (1936) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  99. Crack-Up (1936) (music: "Top Gallante")
  100. Little Beau Porky (1936) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  101. Star for a Night (1936) (music: "Over a Cup of Coffee", "Down Around Malibu Way", "Holy Lie Production Routine #1", "At the Beach at Malibu (Hullabaloo at Malibu)")
  102. The Music Goes 'Round (1936) (writer: "Rolling Along", "This Is Love", "Let's Go", "Suzannah", "There'll Be No South")
  103. Rose-Marie (1936) (music: "Dinah" (uncredited))
    ... aka Indian Love Call (USA: TV title)
    ... aka Rose Marie (USA: poster title)
  104. Can This Be Dixie? (1936) (music: "Pick Pick Pickaninny", "Uncle Tom Is a Cabaret Now", "Does You Wanna Go To Heaven?", "It's Julep Time in Dixieland")
  105. Trouble in Toyland (1936) (music: "Dinah" (uncredited))
  106. Tuned Out (1935) (music: "Dinah")
  107. Paddy O'Day (1935) (music: "Which is Which")
  108. Bright Lights (1935) (music: "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue")
    ... aka Funny Face (UK)
  109. After the Dance (1935) (music: "Tomorrow Night" (uncredited), "Without You I'm Just Drifting" (uncredited)) (lyrics: "Tomorrow Night" (uncredited), "Without You I'm Just Drifting" (uncredited))
  110. Under the Pampas Moon (1935) (music: "Je t'adore")
  111. Change of Heart (1934) (music: "So What?" (1934) (uncredited)) (lyrics: "So What?" (1934) (uncredited))
  112. The Flame Song (1934) (writer: "One Little Drink")
  113. Marie Galante (1934) (music: "On a Little Side Street", "Je t'adore")
  114. Chained (1934) (music: "Dinah")
  115. Pursued (1934) (music: "Wanted - Someone (When the Right One Comes Along)")
  116. The Man with Two Faces (1934) (music: "Am I Blue?" (1929))
  117. The Cat's-Paw (1934) (music: "I'M JUST THAT WAY")
  118. Now I'll Tell (1934) (music: "Fooling with the Other Woman's Man", "Harlem Versus the Jungle")
    ... aka Now I'll Tell You
    ... aka When New York Sleeps (UK)
  119. The Loudspeaker (1934) ("Who But You", "Doo Ah Doo Ah Know What I'm Doing")
    ... aka The Radio Star (UK)
  120. Let's Talk It Over (1934) (music: "Heaven On Earth")
  121. Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) (music: "Stand Up And Cheer!") (lyrics: "Stand Up And Cheer!")
  122. Glamour (1934) (writer: "Heaven on Earth")
  123. Roman Scandals (1933) (music: "Dinah")
  124. Sittin' on a Backyard Fence (1933) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  125. Plane Nuts (1933) (music: "Dinah" (1925))
  126. The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (1933) (music: "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
  127. Rufus Jones for President (1933) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  128. Rafter Romance (1933) (music: "Dinah" (1925) (uncredited))
  129. Baby Face (1933) (music: "Baby Face" (1926))
  130. I Loved You Wednesday (1933) (music: "Roll Your Bones")
  131. Professional Sweetheart (1933) (music: "My Imaginary Sweetheart")
    ... aka Imaginary Sweetheart
  132. Diplomaniacs (1933) (music: "Ood-Gay Eye-bay", "Sing To Me", "On the Boulevard", "No More War") ("Sing to Me")
  133. The Keyhole (1933) (music: "Am I Blue?" (1929))
  134. 42nd Street (1933) (performer: "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (1932) (uncredited))
  135. Young and Healthy (1933) (music: "Am I Blue?")
  136. Broadway Bad (1933) (music: "Forget the Past")
    ... aka Her Reputation (UK)
  137. Dinah (1933) (music: "DINAH")
  138. The Half Naked Truth (1932) (music: "O! Mister Carpenter" (1932) (uncredited)) (lyrics: "O! Mister Carpenter" (1932) (uncredited))
  139. Rockabye (1932) (writer: "Till the Real Thing Comes Along" (uncredited))
  140. A Modern Cinderella (1932) (music: "Dinah")
  141. The Yacht Party (1932) (music: "Dinah" (uncredited))
  142. Big-Hearted Bosko (1932) (music: "Am I Blue?")
    ... aka Bosko's Orphans
  143. High Pressure (1932) (music: "I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind" (1931) (uncredited))
  144. Artistic Temper (1932) (music: "That's What Heaven Means to Me")
    ... aka Artistic Temperament
  145. Palmy Days (1931) (music: "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" (1931) (uncredited)) (lyrics: "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" (1931) (uncredited))
  146. Peach-O-Reno (1931) (lyrics: "From Niagara Falls to Reno" (uncredited))
  147. Husband's Holiday (1931) (writer: "What Price Love?")
  148. Golden Dawn (1930) (music: "Africa Smiles No More" (1930), "Mooda's Song" (1930), "My Heart's Love Call" (1930), "In a Jungle Bungalow" (1930))
    ... aka The Circus Princess (Australia)
  149. The Booze Hangs High (1930) (music: "One Little Drink")
  150. Check and Double Check (1930) (music: "Am I Blue? (1929)")
  151. Bright Lights (1930) (writer: "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue")
    ... aka Adventures in Africa (USA: TV title)
  152. Leathernecking (1930) (writer: "All My Life")
    ... aka Present Arms
  153. Dancing Sweeties (1930) (music: "Wishing and Waiting For Love")
  154. The Song of the Flame (1930) ("The Goose Hangs High", "Liberty Song", "Passing Fancy", "Petrograd", "One Little Drink")
  155. Song of the West (1930) (writer: "Come Back to Me")
  156. Loose Ankles (1930) (music: "Am I Blue?" (1929))
  157. No, No, Nanette (1930) (writer: "As Long As I'm with You")
  158. Bubbles (1930) (music: "In the Land of Let's Pretend" (1929))
  159. The Jazz Rehearsal (1930) (writer: "Wouldn't It Be Wonderful")
  160. Minstrel Days (1930) (lyrics: "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue")

  161. The Squall (1929) (music: "Gypsy Charmer" (1929))
  162. Glorifying the American Girl (1929) (music: "Baby Face")
  163. The Sacred Flame (1929) (writer: "The Sacred Flame")
  164. The Show of Shows (1929) ("Just an Hour of Love", "Your Love is All I Crave")
  165. The Mississippi Gambler (1929) (writer: "Father Mississippi")
  166. Is Everybody Happy? (1929) (writer: "WOULDN'T IT BE WONDERFUL?", "I'M THE MEDICINE MAN FOR THE BLUES", "SAMOA", "NEW ORLEANS", "IN THE LAND OF JAZZ", "START THE BAND")
  167. So Long Letty (1929) ("Am I Blue", "Let Me Have My Dreams", "Clowning", "My Beauty Shop", "My Stronngest Weakness Is You", "One Sweet Little Yes")
  168. Broadway Babies (1929) (writer: "Wishing and Waiting for Love", "Jig, Jig, Jigaloo")
    ... aka Broadway Daddies (UK)
  169. Segar Ellis and His Embassy Club Orchestra (1929) ("Am I Blue")
  170. She Goes to War (1929) (writer: "Joan", "There Is a Happy Land')
  171. On with the Show! (1929) (music: "Welcome Home", "Let Me Have My Dreams", "Am I Blue?", "Lift the Juleps to Your Two Lips", "In the Land of Let's Pretend", "Don't It Mean a Thing to You?", "Birmingham Bertha", "Wedding Day")
  172. This Is Heaven (1929) (writer: "This Is Heaven")
  173. Bulldog Drummond (1929) (writer: "(I Says To Myself Says I) There's The One For Me")
  174. Saturday's Children (1929) (writer: "I Still Believe In You")
  175. Frances Shelley and the Four Eton Boys (1929) (music: "Am I Blue?" (uncredited))
Composer:
  1. Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939) (uncredited)
    ... aka Danger Island
    ... aka Mr. Moto on Danger Island (UK)
  2. Island in the Sky (1938) (uncredited)
  3. After the Dance (1935) (music)
  4. Rockabye (1932)
  5. Artistic Temper (1932) (uncredited)
    ... aka Artistic Temperament
  6. Palmy Days (1931) (music by)
Actor:
  1. The Holy Terror (1937) (uncredited) .... Sailor in Music Hall scene
  2. 42nd Street (1933) (uncredited) .... Jerry
  3. Knee Deep in Music (1933)
  4. June Moon (1931) .... Maxie Schwartz

  5. The Show of Shows (1929) .... Pianist - accompanying Irene Bordoni
Music Department:
  1. You May Be Next (1936) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
  2. After the Dance (1935) (lyricist)
  3. The Silver Streak (1934) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)

  4. On with the Show! (1929) (composer: songs)
Writer:
  1. Shooting High (1940) (contributing writer) (uncredited)
Self:
  1. "The Colgate Comedy Hour" .... Himself (1 episode, 1952)
    ... aka Colgate Summer Comedy Hour (USA: summer title)
    ... aka Colgate Variety Hour (USA: sixth season title)
    ... aka Michael Todd Revue (USA: subtitle)
        - Episode #2.41 (1952) TV episode .... Himself

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