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2009 Public Enemies (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929)

2009 My Music: The Big Band Years (TV movie) (music: "Baby Face")

2008 Sita Sings the Blues ("Am I Blue?")

2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (video documentary) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

2006 Por Toda Minha Vida (TV series documentary)

– Elis Regina (2006) (writer: "Baby Face")

2005 Son of the Mask (writer: "Baby Face")

2004 Justice League (TV series)

– This Little Piggy (2004) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

2003 Big Fish (writer: "Dinah")

2003 Hope Springs (writer: "Am I Blue")

2003 Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (TV documentary) (writer: "Dinah" / music: "Dinah")

2002 Gilmore Girls (TV series)

– Take the Deviled Eggs... (2002) (performer: "Baby Face")

2001 Amélie (writer: "Guilty")

1998 U.S. Marshals (writer: "AM I BLUE?")

1989-1997 American Masters (TV series documentary)

– Vaudeville (1997) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

– Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong (1989) (music: "Dinah")

1994 Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (writer: "Am I Blue?")

1992 Sharon, Lois & Bram Sing A to Z (video) ("Baby Face")

1989 Slaves of New York (writer: "Am I Blue?")

1987 The Last Emperor (music: "Am I Blue" 1929)

1986 The Color of Money (lyrics: "Anema e core")

1985 Webster (TV series)

– In the Family Way: Part 1 (1985) (music: "Baby Face")

1984 The Cotton Club (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited / lyrics: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1984 Undercover (writer: "Baby Face", "Am I Blue?")

1983 Phar Lap (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1983 The Facts of Life (TV series)

– Under Pressure (1983) ("Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1979 The Lady in Red (music: "Baby Face")

1979 Bugs Bunny's Valentine (TV short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1978 Sextette (writer: "Baby Face")

1977 The Muppet Show (TV series)

– Edgar Bergen (1977) (writer: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1976 All in the Family (TV series)

– Gloria's False Alarm (1976) (writer: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1976 The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (TV series)

– Pilot (1976) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1976 Dinah! (TV series)

– Episode dated 16 July 1976 (1976) (writer: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1975 Funny Lady (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1974 The Waltons (TV series)

– The Marathon (1974) (writer: "Baby Face" 1926 - uncredited)

1972 Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 (TV movie) (writer: "Dinah")

1972 The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (TV series)

– Episode #2.8 (1972) (writer: "Am I blue")

1970 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)

– Episode dated 12 August 1970 (1970) (writer: "Am I Blue")

1970 The David Frost Show (TV series)

– Episode #2.157 (1970) (writer: "Am I Blue")

1969 The Mike Douglas Show (TV series)

– Episode dated 20 November 1969 (1969) (writer: "Am I Blue?")

1967 Thoroughly Modern Millie (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1967 The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (TV series)

– Episode dated 9 March 1967 (1967) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1965 The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (TV series)

– Rick Grows a Beard (1965) (music: "Dinah")

1964 The Iceman Ducketh (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1963 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)

– The Fabulous Musicals (1963) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1962 Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (TV series)

– Episode #1.1 (1962) (music: "Baby Face")

1961 Hawaiian Eye (TV series)

– Thomas Jefferson Chu (1961) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1960 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV series)

– Episode dated 25 May 1960 (1960) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1957 The Helen Morgan Story (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1957 The Spirit of St. Louis (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1953 There Auto Be a Law (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1953 She's Back on Broadway (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1952 Stop, You're Killing Me (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1952 We're Not Married! (music: "Baby Face")

1952 She's Working Her Way Through College (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1952 Mara Maru (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1951 Ballot Box Bunny (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1951 Strangers on a Train (music: "Baby Face" 1926 - uncredited)

1951 Chow Hound (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited, "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1951 Scent-imental Romeo (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1951 The Buick-Berle Show (TV series)

– Episode #3.24 (1951) (writer: "Dinah", "Am I Blue?")

1950 It's Hummer Time (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1950 An Egg Scramble (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1950 Young Man with a Horn (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1949 The House Across the Street (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1949 Often an Orphan (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1949 Jolson Sings Again (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1949 The Grey Hounded Hare (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1949 Bad Ol' Putty Tat (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1948 Riff Raffy Daffy (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1948 Cry of the City (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1948 Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (short) (music: "Am I Blue?")

1948 The Street with No Name (music: "Baby Face" 1926 - uncredited)

1947 Intrigue (lyrics: "Intrigue")

1947 This Time for Keeps (writer: "Why Don't They Let Me Sing a Love Song?" - uncredited, "Little Big Shot")

1947 The Egg and I (writer: "The Egg and I" - uncredited)

1947 One Meat Brawl (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1946 Blondie Knows Best (writer: "Who Said Dreams Don't Come True?" - uncredited)

1946 Blondie's Lucky Day (writer: "Who Said Dreams Don't Come True?" - uncredited)

1944 She's a Sweetheart (writer: "Who Said Dreams Don't Come True?")

1944 Booby Hatched (short) (music: "Am I Blue?")

1944 To Have and Have Not (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited)

1944 Three Brothers (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1944 Pay Day (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1944 Greenwich Village (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1944 The Impatient Years (writer: "Who Said Dreams Don't Come True?")

1944 Show Business (music: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1944 Rosie the Riveter (music: "Why Can't I Sing a Love Song?")

1943 Baby Puss (short) (music: "Baby Face")

1943 Is Everybody Happy? (music: "Am I Blue?")

1943 Lady of Burlesque (music: "Take It Off the E-String, Put It On the G-String", "So This Is You")

1943 Chatterbox (writer: "Why Can't I Sing a Love Song?", "Welcome to Victory Ranch")

1943 The Hard Way (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited)

1943 The Voice That Thrilled the World (documentary short) (music: "Am I Blue" - uncredited)

1942 Ding Dog Daddy (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1942 Casablanca (music: "Baby Face" 1926 - uncredited)

1942 Broadway (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1941 Wabbit Twouble (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1941 Her First Beau (music: "This Is Love")

1940 Shooting High (music: "On the Rancho with My Pancho" 1940)

1940 Cinderella's Feller (short) (music: "In the Land of Let's Pretend" - uncredited)

1940 Slap Happy Pappy (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1940 Confederate Honey (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited)

1940 Johnny Apollo (music: "Baby Face" 1926 - uncredited)

1939 Boy Friend (music: "Doin' The Socialite")

1939 A Day at the Zoo (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1938 Dramatic School (music: "It Happpened When Your Eyes Met Mine" 1934 - uncredited)

1938 Up the River (music: "It's The Strangest Thing", "Song of Rockwell", "Rhythmettes")

1938 Streamlined Swing (short) (music: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1938 Rascals (music: "Blue Is The Evening", "Take A Tip From A Gypsy", "Song Of A Gypsy Band" / lyrics: "Carnival Song What a Gay Occasion")

1938 Battle of Broadway (music: "Daughter of Mademoiselle", "Legionaires")

1938 Walking Down Broadway (music: "Good-Bye My Heart Good Luck to You")

1938 International Settlement (writer: "You Made Me That Way", "Shrug")

1937 Fight for Your Lady (music: "Blame It on the Danube" 1937)

1937 September in the Rain (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1937 Big Town Girl (music: "Argentine Swing,", "Don't Throw Kisses", "I'll Settle for Love")

1937 The Lyin' Mouse (short) (music: "Am I Blue?")

1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town (music: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1937 Porky's Garden (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1937 Talent Scout (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited)

1937 Think Fast, Mr. Moto (music: "The Shy Violet")

1937 Wild and Woolly (music: "Whoa Whoopee, Whoa Whipee Yippy-I-O-I-Ay")

1937 She Had to Eat (music: "Living on the Town", "When a Girl from Alabama Meets a Boy from Tennessee")

1937 Sing and Be Happy (music: "Pickles", "What a Beautiful Beginning", "Travelin' Light", "Sing and Be Happy")

1937 Round-Up Time in Texas (music: "Dinah" 1925)

1937 The Holy Terror (music: "Don't Sing-Everybody Swing", "There I Go Again", "I Don't Know Myself Since I Know You", "The Call of the Siren")

1937 Woman-Wise (writer: "You're a Knockout")

1936 Don't Look Now (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1936 Crack-Up (music: "Top Gallante")

1936 Can This Be Dixie? (music: "Pick Pick Pickaninny", "Uncle Tom Is a Cabaret Now", "Does You Wanna Go To Heaven?", "It's Julep Time in Dixieland")

1936 Little Beau Porky (short) (music: "Am I Blue?")

1936 Star for a Night (music: "Over a Cup of Coffee", "Down Around Malibu Way", "Holy Lie Production Routine #1", "At the Beach at Malibu Hullabaloo at Malibu")

1936 The Music Goes 'Round (writer: "Rolling Along", "This Is Love", "Let's Go", "Suzannah", "There'll Be No South")

1936 Rose-Marie (music: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1936 Trouble in Toyland (short) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1935 Bright Lights (music: "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue" 1935 - uncredited)

1935 Tuned Out (short) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1935 Paddy O'Day (music: "Which is Which")

1935 After the Dance (music: "Tomorrow Night" - uncredited, "Without You I'm Just Drifting" - uncredited / lyrics: "Tomorrow Night" - uncredited, "Without You I'm Just Drifting" - uncredited)

1935 Under the Pampas Moon (music: "Je t'adore")

1935 The Great Hotel Murder (music: "So What?" - uncredited)

1934 Stand Up and Cheer! (music: "Stand Up And Cheer!" 1934 - uncredited / lyrics: "Stand Up And Cheer!" 1934 - uncredited)

1934 Change of Heart (music: "So What?" 1934 - uncredited / lyrics: "So What?" 1934 - uncredited)

1934 The Cat's-Paw (music: "I'm Just That Way" 1934 - uncredited)

1934/II Vaudeville (short) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1934 The Flame Song (short) (music: "One Little Drink" - uncredited)

1934 Marie Galante (music: "On a Little Side Street", "Je t'adore")

1934 Chained (music: "Dinah")

1934 Pursued (music: "Wanted - Someone When the Right One Comes Along")

1934 The Man with Two Faces (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited)

1934 Friends of Mr. Sweeney (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1934 Now I'll Tell (music: "Fooling with the Other Woman's Man", "Harlem Versus the Jungle")

1934 The Loudspeaker ("Who But You", "Doo Ah Doo Ah Know What I'm Doing")

1934 Let's Talk It Over (music: "Heaven On Earth")

1934 Glamour (writer: "Heaven on Earth")

1934 Mushrooms (short) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1934 Phil Spitalny and His Musical Queens (short) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1933 Diplomaniacs (music: "Ood-Gay Eye-bay" 1933 - uncredited, "Sing To Me" 1933 - uncredited, "On the Boulevard" 1933 - uncredited, "Sing to Me" 1933 - uncredited, "No More War" 1933 - uncredited)

1933 Turkey Time (writer: "Was My Face Red" - uncredited)

1933 Sittin' on a Backyard Fence (short) (music: "Am I Blue?")

1933 Buddy's Show Boat (short) (music: "There Is a Happy Land" - uncredited)

1933 Roman Scandals (music: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1933 Plane Nuts (short) (music: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1933 The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1933 Melodía prohibida (music: "Pais ideal The Islands Are Calling Me", "Siempre Till the End of Time", "La melodía prohibida", "La canción del paria Derelict Song")

1933 Rufus Jones for President (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1933 Rafter Romance (music: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1933 Blind Adventure (music: "My Imaginary Sweetheart" - uncredited)

1933 Baby Face (music: "Baby Face" 1926 - uncredited)

1933 I Loved You Wednesday (music: "Roll Your Bones")

1933 Professional Sweetheart (music: "My Imaginary Sweetheart")

1933 Lilly Turner (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1933 The Keyhole (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited)

1933 42nd Street (performer: "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" 1932 - uncredited)

1933 Young and Healthy (short) (music: "Am I Blue?")

1933 Broadway Bad (music: "Forget the Past")

1933 Dinah (short) (music: "DINAH")

1932 The Half Naked Truth (music: "O! Mister Carpenter" 1932 - uncredited / lyrics: "O! Mister Carpenter" 1932 - uncredited)

1932 Rockabye (writer: "Till the Real Thing Comes Along" - uncredited)

1932 A Modern Cinderella (short) (music: "Dinah")

1932 The Yacht Party (short) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1932 Big-Hearted Bosko (short) (music: "Am I Blue?")

1932 High Pressure (music: "I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind" 1931 - uncredited)

1932 Artistic Temper (short) (music: "That's What Heaven Means to Me" - uncredited)

1931 Palmy Days (music: "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" 1931 - uncredited / lyrics: "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" 1931 - uncredited)

1931 The High School Hoofer (short) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1931 Peach-O-Reno (lyrics: "From Niagara Falls to Reno" - uncredited)

1931 Husband's Holiday (writer: "What Price Love?")

1931 Night Nurse (music: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1931 Ups 'n Downs (short) (music: "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue" - uncredited)

1930 Golden Dawn (music: "Africa Smiles No More" 1930 - uncredited, "Mooda's Song" 1930 - uncredited, "My Heart's Love Call" 1930 - uncredited, "In a Jungle Bungalow" 1930 - uncredited)

1930 Dancing Sweeties (music: "Wishing and Waiting For Love" 1930 - uncredited)

1930 The Booze Hangs High (short) (music: "One Little Drink" - uncredited)

1930 The Truth About Youth (music: "In the Land of Let's Pretend" - uncredited)

1930 Check and Double Check (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited)

1930 Bright Lights (writer: "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue")

1930 Leathernecking (writer: "All My Life")

1930 With Byrd at the South Pole (documentary) (music: "Baby Face" - uncredited)

1930 The Song of the Flame ("The Goose Hangs High", "Liberty Song", "Passing Fancy", "Petrograd", "One Little Drink")

1930 Let's Elope! (short) (music: "Wouldn't It Be Wonderful" - uncredited)

1930 Song of the West (music: "Come Back to Me" - uncredited)

1930 Loose Ankles (music: "Am I Blue?" 1929)

1930 Lilies of the Field (music: "Am I Blue" - uncredited)

1930 No, No, Nanette (music: "As Long as I'm with You" - uncredited)

1930 The Jazz Rehearsal (short) (writer: "Wouldn't It Be Wonderful")

1930 Minstrel Days (short) (music: "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue" - uncredited)

1930 Bubbles (short) (music: "In the Land of Let's Pretend" 1929 - uncredited)

1929 The Squall (music: "Gypsy Charmer" 1929)

1929 The Show of Shows (performer: "Just an Hour of Love" 1929 - uncredited, "Your Love Is All I Crave" - uncredited)

1929 Broadway Babies (music: "Wishing and Waiting for Love" 1929 - uncredited)

1929 Glorifying the American Girl (music: "Baby Face" 1926 - uncredited)

1929 The Sacred Flame (writer: "The Sacred Flame")

1929 The Mississippi Gambler (writer: "Father Mississippi")

1929 Is Everybody Happy? (music: "Wouldn't It Be Wonderful?" - uncredited, "I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues" - uncredited, "Samoa" - uncredited, "New Orleans" - uncredited, "In the Land of Jazz" - uncredited, "Start the Band" - uncredited)

1929 So Long Letty ("Am I Blue", "Let Me Have My Dreams", "Clowning", "My Beauty Shop", "My Stronngest Weakness Is You", "One Sweet Little Yes")

1929 Segar Ellis and His Embassy Club Orchestra (short) ("Am I Blue")

1929 She Goes to War (writer: "Joan", "There Is a Happy Land')

1929 On with the Show! (music: "Welcome Home" - uncredited, "Let Me Have My Dreams" - uncredited, "Am I Blue?" - uncredited, "Lift the Juleps to Your Two Lips" - uncredited, "In the Land of Let's Pretend" - uncredited, "Don't It Mean a Thing to You?" - uncredited, "Birmingham Bertha" - uncredited, "Wedding Day" - uncredited)

1929 This Is Heaven (writer: "This Is Heaven")

1929 Bulldog Drummond (writer: " I Says To Myself Says I There's The One For Me")

1929 Saturday's Children (writer: "I Still Believe In You")

1929 Frances Shelley and the Four Eton Boys (short) (music: "Am I Blue?" - uncredited)

1928 Their Purple Moment (short) (music: "Baby Face" 1926 - uncredited)

1928 Walt Roesner and the Capitolians (short) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

1927 The Revelers (short) (music: "Dinah" - uncredited)

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	STARmeter SEE RANK Down 191,880 this week View rank on IMDbPro » Harry Akst (1894–1963) Soundtrack \| Music Department \| Actor Trivia: Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983. Born: August 15, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA Died: March 31, 1963 (age 68) in Hollywood, California, USA