Award-winning songwriter ("All the Way" [Academy Award, 1957], "Three Coins in the Fountain" [Academy Award, 1954], "Love and Marriage" [Emmy Award, 1955], "High Hopes" [Academy Award, 1959], "Call Me Irresponsible" [Academy Award, 1963]), composer, author and publisher, educated at Seward Park High School in New York...See full bio »
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(lyrics: "I'll Walk Alone" 1944 - uncredited, "The Tender Trap" 1955 - uncredited, "I Fall in Love Too Easily" 1945 - uncredited, "I Believe" 1947 - uncredited, "I Begged Her" 1944 - uncredited)
1976The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
(writer: "Lemondrops, Lollipops & Sunbeams", "Please Don't Touch Me Plums", "Blimey", "Fools Gold", "A Touch Of Love")
1974Journey Back to Oz
(writer: "A Faraway Land", "Signpost Song", "Keep A Happy Thought", "The Horse On The Carousel", "B-R-A-N-E", "An Elephant Never Forgets", "You Have Only You", "If You're Gonna Be A Witch - Be A Witch", "H-E-A-R-T", "N-E-R-V-E", "Return To The Land Of Oz March", "That Feeling For Home")
1967Jack and the Beanstalk
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "Half Past April, and a Quarter to May", "A Tiny Bit of Faith", "One Starry Moment", "It's Been Nice", "The Woggle-Bird Song", "Stiffen Up That Upper Lip", "One Starry Moment" Reprise)
1964Robin and the 7 Hoods
(lyrics: "My Kind of Town" - uncredited, "Mr. Booze" - uncredited, "All for One and One for All" - uncredited, "Don't be a Do-Badder" - uncredited, "Any Man Who Loves His Mother" - uncredited, "Style" - uncredited, "Bang! Bang!" - uncredited)
1964Honeymoon Hotel
(lyrics: "Honeymoon Hotel", "I've Been Had", "Love Is Oh So Easy", "You're It")
1959Say One for Me
(lyrics: "Say One for Me", "You Can't Love Them All", "The Girl Most Likely to Succeed", "I Couldn't Care Less", "Cha Cha Choo Choo", "The Night Rock and Roll Died", "He's Starting to Get to Me", "The Secret of Christmas")
1958Rock-a-Bye Baby
(lyrics: "Dormi-Dormi-Dormi Sleep-Sleep-Sleep", "The Land of La-La-La", "Love Is a Lonely Thing", "Rock-a-Bye Baby", "The White Virgin of the Nile", "Why Can't He Care for Me?")
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(lyrics: "All the Way" - uncredited, "Love and Marriage" - uncredited, "I'll Walk Alone" - uncredited, "It's Been a Long, Long Time" - uncredited, "Three Coins in the Fountain" - uncredited)
1956Meet Me in Las Vegas
(lyrics: "I Refuse to Rock and Roll", "Hell Hath No Fury", "Frankie and Johnny", "Meet Me in Las Vegas", "If You Can Dream", "The Gal with the Yaller Shoes", "My Lucky Charm")
1955The Court Jester
(writer: "Life Could Not Better Be", "Outfox the Fox", "I'll Take You Dreaming", "My Heart Knows a Love Song", "Ritual of Knighthood", "Willow, Willow, Waleyc/ Pass The Basket", "Life Could Not Better Be Reprise")
1955You're Never Too Young
(lyrics: "Relax-Ay-Voo", "Simpatico", "Love Is All That Matters", "I Know Your Mother Loves You", "I Like to Hike", "Every Day Is a Happy Day")
1953Three Sailors and a Girl
(lyrics: "Face to Face" - uncredited, "You're But Oh, So Right" - uncredited, "My Heart Is a Singing Heart" - uncredited, "There Must Be a Reason" - uncredited, "When It's Love" - uncredited, "I Got Butterflies" - uncredited, "Kiss Me or I'll Scream" - uncredited, "The Lately Song" - uncredited, "Show Me a Happy Woman and I'll Show You a Miserable Man" - uncredited, "It's Gonna Be a Big Hit" - uncredited)
1953Peter Pan
(lyrics: "The Second Star to the Right", "You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly!", "What Makes the Red Man Red?", "Your Mother and Mine", "The Elegant Captain Hook")
1952April in Paris
(lyrics: "It Must Be Good" - uncredited, "I'm Gonna Ring the Bell Tonight" - uncredited, "That's What Makes Paris Paree" - uncredited, "I'm Going to Rock the Boat" - uncredited, "Give Me Your Lips" - uncredited, "I Ask You" - uncredited, "The Place You Hold in My Heart" - uncredited, "I Know a Place" - uncredited)
1952She's Working Her Way Through College
(lyrics: "All Hail to Midwest State" - uncredited, "I'll Be Loving You", "Midwest Fight Song" - uncredited, "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", "Love Is Still for Free", " You've Got to Give 'em What They Want" - uncredited)
1951Rich, Young and Pretty
(lyrics: "Wonder Why", "Dark is the Night", "Paris", "L'amour toujours Tonight for Sure", "I Can See You", "We Never Talk Much", "How D'Ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning")
1951Sugarfoot
(lyrics: "Oh, He Looked Like He Might Buy Wine")
1950The West Point Story
(lyrics: "It's Raining Sundrops" - uncredited, "By the Kissing Rock" - uncredited, "Long Before I Knew You" - uncredited, "This Is the Finale" - uncredited, "Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty-Two Sheep" - uncredited, "The Military Polka" - uncredited, "You Love Me" - uncredited, "B'klyn" - uncredited, "It Could Only Happen in Brooklyn" - uncredited)
1950I'll Get By
(lyrics: "It's Been a Long, Long Time")
1950Armored Car Robbery
(lyrics: "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are" - uncredited)
1949Always Leave Them Laughing
(writer: "Always Leave Them Laughing" 1949 - uncredited, "This Is Not Goodbye" 1949 - uncredited, "Give Me a Tam-Tam-Tamborine" 1949 - uncredited, "Say Farewell" 1949 - uncredited, "Clink Your Glasses" 1949 - uncredited, "The Wonder of It All" 1949 - uncredited, "You're Too Intense" 1949 - uncredited, "Brothers" 1949 - uncredited, "May We Say Hello" 1949 - uncredited)
1949It's a Great Feeling
(lyrics: "It's a Great Feeling" - uncredited, "Give Me a Song with a Beautiful Melody" - uncredited, "Fiddle Dee Dee" - uncredited, "At the Cafe Rendezvous" - uncredited, "That Was a Big Fat Lie" - uncredited, "There's Nothing Rougher than Love" - uncredited, "Blame My Absent-Minded Heart" - uncredited)
1948Two Guys from Texas
(lyrics: "There's Music in the Land" - uncredited, "Every Day I Love You Just a Little Bit More" - uncredited, "I Don't Care If It Rains All Night" - uncredited, "I Never Met a Texan" - uncredited, "I Wanna Be a Cowboy in the Movies" - uncredited, "Hankerin'" - uncredited, "At the Rodeo" - uncredited)
1948Romance on the High Seas
(lyrics: "Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon and Throw 'em in the Deep Blue Sea" - uncredited, "It's Magic" - uncredited, "It's You or No One" - uncredited, "I'm in Love" - uncredited, "The Tourist Trade" - uncredited, "Run, Run, Run" - uncredited, "Romance on the High Seas" - uncredited)
1948Back Alley Oproar
(short)
(lyrics: "You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There" - uncredited)
1947The Long Night
(lyrics: "Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are" - uncredited)
1947It Happened in Brooklyn
(lyrics: "It's The Same Old Dream", "The Brooklyn Bridge", "Whose Baby Are You", "The Song's Gotta Come From The Heart", "I Believe", "Time After Time")
1947Ladies' Man
(lyrics: "I Gotta Gal I Love In North and South Dakota", "I'm as Ready as I'll Ever Be", "Away Out West", "What Am I Gonna Do About You?")
1946The Kid from Brooklyn
(lyrics: "You're The Cause of It All" 1946, "I Love An Old Fashioned Song" 1946, "Hey! What's Your Name?" 1946, "Josie" 1946, "The Sunflower Song" 1946)
1946Lone Star Moonlight
(lyrics: "Go West Young Lady", "I Wish That I Could Be A Singing Cowboy")
1946Earl Carroll Sketchbook
(lyrics: "Lady with a Mop", "I've Never Forgotten", "Oh, Henry!", "What Makes You Beautiful, Beautiful?", "I Was Silly, I Was Headstrong, I Was Impetuous")
1946Cinderella Jones
(lyrics: "If You're Waitin' I'm Waitin' Too", "Cinderella Jones", "When the One You Love Simply Won't Love Back", "You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There")
1945Anchors Aweigh
(lyrics: "We Hate to Leave" 1944 - uncredited, "I Begged Her" 1944 - uncredited, "What Makes the Sunset?" 1944 - uncredited, "The Charm of You" 1944 - uncredited, "I Fall In Love Too Easily" 1944 - uncredited)
1945Eadie Was a Lady
(lyrics: "YOU CAME ALONG", "EADIE'S BACK AGAIN")
1945Tonight and Every Night
(lyrics: "Tonight and Every Night", "What Does an English Girl Think of a Yank?", "You Excite Me", "Anywhere", "The Boy I Left Behind", "Cry and You Cry Alone")
1944Follow the Boys
(lyrics: "I'll Walk Alone" 1944, "A Better Day Is Coming" 1944, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" 1932 - uncredited, "Victory Polka" 91943 - uncredited)
1944Carolina Blues
(writer: "Mr. Beebe" / lyrics: "There Goes That Song Again", "Thinkin' About The Wabash", "Thanks a Lot", "You Make Me Dream Too Much", "Poor Little Rhode Island")
1944Step Lively
(lyrics: "WHERE DOES LOVE BEGIN?", "COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE", "AS LONG AS THERE'S MUSIC", "SOME OTHER TIME", "WHY MUST THERE BE AN OP'NING SONG?", "ASK THE MADAME")
1942Johnny Doughboy
(lyrics: "It Takes a Guy Like I", "Baby's a Big Girl Now", "All Done, All Through")
1942Youth on Parade
(lyrics: "I've Heard that Song Before", "You're So Good to Me", "If It's Love", "Mad", "Cotcha Too Ta Me", "You Got to Study, Buddy")
1941Go West, Young Lady
(lyrics: "I Wish That I Could Be a Singing Cowboy", "Dogie Take Your Time", "Most Gentlemen Don't Prefer a Lady", "Somewhere Along The Trail", "Go West, Young Lady")
1941Time Out for Rhythm
(lyrics: "Time Out for Rhythm" - uncredited, "A-Twiddlin' My Thumbs" - uncredited, "Obviously the Gentleman Prefers to Dance" - uncredited, "Rio De Janeiro" - uncredited, "The Boogie Woogie Man" - uncredited, "Shows How Wrong a Gal Can Be" - uncredited, "As If You Didn't Know" - uncredited, "Time Out for Rhythm" finale, "Did Anyone Ever Tell You?")
1941Rookies on Parade
(lyrics: "I Love You More", "What More Do You Want", "My Kinda Music", "You'll Never Get Rich", "Mother Never Told Me")
1941Porky's Bear Facts
(short)
(lyrics: "The Girl with the Pigtails in Her Hair" - uncredited)
1940Argentine Nights
(lyrics: "Oh, He Loves Me" "Dowry Song", "The New Lick", "Once Upon a Dream", "Amigo, We Go Riding Tonight")
1940Ladies Must Live
(lyrics: "I Could Make You Care", "It Shows You What Love Can Do")
1940All Girl Revue
(short)
(lyrics: "We've Got to Make the City Pretty", "Information, Please", "I Love a Long Note")
1940Double or Nothing
(short)
(lyrics: "My Guitar" - uncredited, "We're the Bounty Mutineers" - uncredited, "Hollywood" - uncredited, "I'm Tired of Singing Songs About Hawaii" - uncredited, "Anytime's the Time to Fall in Love" - uncredited)
1940One for the Book
(short)
(lyrics: "Old Man Mose Ain't Dead" - uncredited, "Mr. End Man" - uncredited)
1939Public Jitterbug No. 1
(short)
(lyrics: "Public Jitterbug No. 1" - uncredited, "Don't Want to Sing, Might as Well Dance" - uncredited, "Obviously the Gentleman Prefers to Dance" - uncredited)
1939You're Next to Closing
(short)
(lyrics: "Please Be Kind" - uncredited, "Confessions of a Dying Baritone" - uncredited)
1939Sundae Serenade
(short)
(lyrics: "I Hate Music but I Love Musicians" - uncredited, "Ride, Mountie, Ride" - uncredited, "You'll Swing for This" - uncredited)
1938The Prisoner of Swing
(short)
(lyrics: "Coronation of the King of Swing" - uncredited, "The Fencing of the Guard" - uncredited, "Pardon Me If I Say It with My Feet" - uncredited)
1938Little Me
(short)
(lyrics: "I Hope to Go on the Stage" - uncredited, "You Can't Have Your Cake" - uncredited, "The Lady in Red Is Wearing Black" - uncredited)
1938Up in Lights
(short)
(lyrics: "Moping While You Loaf" - uncredited, "We're a Sister Team" - uncredited, "Sounds in the Night" - uncredited, "Everybody Dance" - uncredited)
1938The Candid Kid
(short)
(lyrics: "From Every Angle You're Great" - uncredited, "As Long as I Can Sing" - uncredited, "Hot Tamales" - uncredited)
1938Script Girl
(short)
(lyrics: "Just a Simple Melody" - uncredited, "The Big Apple" - uncredited)
1938Rise and Sing
(short)
(lyrics: "The Fluffy Duffy Song" - uncredited, "Bei mir Bist du Schön" - uncredited)
1937Movie-Mania
(short)
(lyrics: "Swing for Sale" - uncredited)
1937Hotel a la Swing
(short)
(lyrics: "Service a la Swing" - uncredited, "Holmes, Tracy and Vance" - uncredited, "But We Don't Make Hash" - uncredited)
1937Swing for Sale
(short)
(lyrics: "Swing for Sale" - uncredited)
(1965). Stage Play: Skyscraper. Musical comedy. Book by Peter Stone. Music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Based on "Dream Girl" by Elmer Rice. Musical Director: John Lesko. Music orchestrated by Fred Werner. Dance arrangements by Marvin Laird. Choreographed by Michael Kidd....
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[Feuding with Dimitri Tiomkin over best song nominations] It would have been better if he had just gracefully accepted the fact that my song for the year, 'Three Coins in the Fountain' [1954], was better and let it go at that. Tiomkin has stimulated a virus that has infected every branch of the music industry.
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Trivia:
Was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award three times, each time in collaboration with Jimmy Van Heusen": in 1966, his lyrics as part of a Best Musical nomination for "Skyscraper;" and in 1967, as Best Composer and Lyricist and his lyrics as part of a Best Musical nomination for "Walking Happy."
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