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He was educated at Townsend Harris Hall, at City College of New York and... moreTrivia:
Composer of popular songs including "Mean To Me," "Walkin' My Baby Back... moreAlternate Names:
Fred A. AhlertFilmography
Soundtrack:
- Sita Sings the Blues (2008) ("Mean to Me")
- The Californians (2005) (music: "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)")
- The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) (writer: "(Do You Intend to Put an End to) A Sweet Beginning Like This")
- D' Anothers (2005) ("I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)")
... aka D'Anoders (Philippines: Tagalog title) - Dean Martin: Encore (2004) (V) (music: "Walkin' My Baby Back Home")
- Mona Lisa Smile (2003) (writer: "Walkin' My Baby Back Home")
- Made (2001) (writer: "Mean to Me")
- Boycott (2001) (TV) (writer: "Walkin' My Baby Back Home')
- Dean Martin: That's Amore (2001) (TV) (music: "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter")
- Obra maestra (2000) (writer: "Life Is a Song")
... aka Masterpiece (International: English title) - My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (1999) (TV) (music: "Mean to Me")
- Pecker (1998) (writer: "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter")
- Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (music: "Walkin' My Baby Back Home")
- Sinatra (1992) (TV) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)")
- Stepping Out (1991) ("Mean to Me")
- Harlem Nights (1989) (music: "Take My Heart")
- "Great Performances" (1 episode, 1985)
- The Best of Broadway (1985) TV episode (writer: "Mean To Me") - Zelig (1983) (music: "I'll Get By" (1928))
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)")
- Harry and Tonto (1974) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)")
- That's Entertainment! (1974) (music: "It Must Be You")
... aka That's Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM (USA: alternative title) - "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (1 episode, 1963)
... aka "The Dinah Shore Show" (USA: sixth season title)
- Episode #7.8 (1963) TV episode (music: "I'll Get By") - "Jazz Party" (1 episode, 1958)
... aka "Art Ford's Jazz Party" (USA: informal title)
- Episode dated 25 September 1958 (1958) TV episode (writer: "Mean to Me") - "The Rosemary Clooney Show" (1 episode, 1957)
- Episode dated 2 March 1957 (1957) TV episode (writer: "Mean to Me") - Love Me or Leave Me (1955) (music: "Mean to Me" (uncredited))
- The Bing Crosby Show (1954) (TV) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (1931))
- Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) (music: "Walkin' My Baby Back Home")
- The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953) (TV) (music: "I'll Get By")
- I'll Get By (1950) (music: "I'll Get By")
- Jingle, Jangle, Jingle (1948) (music: "Walkin' My Baby Back Home")
... aka Jingle, Jangle, Jingle (Musical Parade) (1946-1947) #6 (USA: series title)
... aka Musical Parade: Jingle, Jangle, Jingle (USA: series title) - Faithful in My Fashion (1946) (music: "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)")
- Dixieland Jamboree (1946) (music: "I Don't Know Why")
- Community Sing 7655: No Can Do (1946) (music: "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)")
- Follow the Boys (1944) (music: "I'll Get By")
- A Guy Named Joe (1943) (music: "I'll Get By" (1928))
- They Got Me Covered (1943) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (1931) (uncredited))
- Penny Serenade (1941) (music: "The Moon Was Yellow")
- That's Right - You're Wrong (1939) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (1931))
- Strike Me Pink (1936) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (1931) (uncredited))
- The Perfect Gentleman (1935) (music: "Life Is a Song" (1935))
... aka The Imperfect Lady (UK) - An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935) (music: "I Don't Know Why")
... aka All Colored Vaudeville - The Big Idea (1934) (writer: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (1931))
- Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (1931))
- Broadway to Hollywood (1933) (music: "Poor Little G-String")
... aka Ring Up the Curtain (UK) - When Ladies Meet (1933) (music: "Love, You Funny Thing" (1932) (uncredited))
... aka Strange Skirts (USA: TV title)
... aka Truth Is Stranger (USA: TV title) - Bye-Gones (1933) (music: "I'll Follow You")
- Blue of the Night (1933) (music: "WHERE THE BLUE OF THE NIGHT (MEETS THE GOLD OF THE DAY)")
- Rambling 'Round Radio Row #5 (1933) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (uncredited))
... aka Rambling 'Round Radio Row No. 5 - The Big Broadcast (1932) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)")
- Wild People (1932) (music: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (1931) (uncredited))
- Blonde Crazy (1931) (music: "Ain't That the Way It Goes")
... aka Larceny Lane (UK) - Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) (music: "Free and Easy" (1930) (uncredited))
- The Devil's Cabaret (1930) (music: "Free and Easy" (1930))
- In Gay Madrid (1930) (music: "Into My Heart")
- Children of Pleasure (1930) (music: "The Whole Darned Thing's for You")
- Free and Easy (1930) (music: "The 'Free And Easy'", "It Must Be You")
... aka Easy Go (USA: TV title) - The Song Writers' Revue (1930) (music: "Mean To Me")
- Navy Blues (1929) (music: "Navy Blues" (1929))
- Marianne (1929/I) (writer: "Marianne", "When I See My Sugar", "Oo-La-La")
- Port of Dreams (1929) (writer: "Today and Tomorrow")
... aka Girl Overboard
... aka Salvage - Girl on the Barge (1929) (writer: "When You Were In Love With No One But Me")
- A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor, Star of 'Kid Boots' (1923) (music: "The Dumber They Come, the Better I Like 'Em" (1923)) (lyrics: "The Dumber They Come, the Better I Like 'Em" (1923))
Composer:
- Estrellados (1930)
Self:
- "Toast of the Town" .... Himself (2 episodes, 1952)
... aka "The Ed Sullivan Show" (USA: new title)
- The ASCAP Story: Part 2 (1952) TV episode .... Himself
- The ASCAP Story: Part 1 (1952) TV episode .... Himself - The Song Writers' Revue (1930) (as Fred A. Ahlert) .... Himself
Additional Details
Other Works:
It Happens on Ice (1940). Special. Music by Vernon Duke, Fred E. Ahlert and Peter De Rose. Lyrics by Albert Stillman and Mitchell Parish. Musical Director: Erno Rapee. Choreographed by Catherine Littlefield. Assistant Choreographer: Robert Linden. Scenic Design by Norman Bel Geddes. Costume Design by Norman Bel Geddes. Lighting Design by Norman Bel Geddes. Conducted by David Mendoza. Directed by Leon Leonidoff. Center Theatre: 10 Oct 1940- 15 Jun 1941 (276 performances/on hiatus from 8 Mar 1941- 4 Apr 1941). Cast: Dorothy Allan, John Anderson, Donald Arthur, Betty Atkinson, Rawdon Barnes, Shirley Barney, Lloyd Baxter, Meryl Baxter, Gene Berg, Jeanne Berman, Howard Bissell, Edwina Blades, Eileen Brokaw, Audrey Butler, Gweneth Butler, Dorothy Caley, Hazel Caley, Angela Carson, Paul Castle, Charles Cavanaugh, Dorothy Chandler, Lynn Clare, Louise Clark, Lyle Clark, Joe Cook, Kay Corcoran, Jo Ann Dean, Bill Dewey, George Dewey, Fritz Dietl, John Dunaway, Marion Eddy, Joan Edwards, Scott Edwards, Arthur Erickson, Peggy Fahy, June Forrest, The Four Bruises, Gladys Gooding, Buster Grace, Ian Grey, Hertha Grossman, Charles Hain, William Hanston, Janet Hester, Theckla Horn, Pearl Joseph, May Judels, Jack Kilty, Felix Knight, Leon Kosofsky, Reszka Law, Le Verne, Tommy Lee, Bernice Loughborough, Tex Mangrum, Fred Marshall, Andy McBann, Albert McNulty, Margot Miller, Dr. A. Douglas Nelles, Arthur Nelles, Ruth Noland, Patsy O'Day, Lillian Oldham, Jack Reese, Rudy Richards, Ronnie Roberts, Florence Rohr, Neil Rose, Edmund Rudink, Trudy Schneider, Charles Senna, Clarence Senna, General Senna, Stan Skidmore, Charlie Slagle, Sidney Spaulding, Hedi Stenuf, Geoffe Stevens, Charles Storey, Montey Stott, Ethel Stout, Cliff Thael, Rona Thael, The Buccaneers, The Ice Age Quartet, Eileen Thompson, Helen Thompson, Freddie Trenkler, Georg Von Birgelen, Charlotte Weitzel, Kenny Williams, Gene Winchester, Mancy Mae Woodbury, James Wright, Mary Jane Yeo. Produced by Sonja Henie, Arthur M. Wirtz and Sonart Productions, Inc. (William H. Burke, Production Director. Arthur M. Wirtz, Executive Director). moreMessage Boards
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