Otto Harbach was a songwriter ("I Won't Dance", "Yesterdays", "The Touch of Your Hand") and author, educated at Knox College (BA, MA, DHL, and an honorary member of the Board of Trustees) and Columbia University. At Whitman College he was a professor of English between 1895 and 1901, then a newspaper writer in New York between 1902 and 1903 and an advertising-agency employee into 1910...See full bio »
1953The Desert Song
(lyrics: "One Alone" - uncredited, "The Riff Song" - uncredited, "If One Flower Grows Alone in Your Garden" - uncredited, "The Desert Song" - uncredited, "Romance" - uncredited)
1952Lovely to Look at
(lyrics: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" - uncredited, "The Touch of Your Hand" - uncredited, "Yesterdays" - uncredited, "You're Devastating" - uncredited)
1948April Showers
(lyrics: "Cuddle Up a Little Closer" - uncredited, "Every Little Movement" - uncredited)
1948My Girl Tisa
(lyrics: "Every Little Movement" - uncredited)
1947The Late George Apley
(lyrics: "Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own" - uncredited)
1946Till the Clouds Roll By
(lyrics: "Who?" - uncredited, "Sunny" - uncredited, "She Didn't Say 'Yes'" - uncredited, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" - uncredited, "Yesterdays" - uncredited)
1946The Jolson Story
(lyrics: "Every Little Movement" - uncredited)
1945Ain't That Ducky
(short)
(lyrics: "Every Little Movement" - uncredited)
1944I Won't Play
(short)
(lyrics: "Cuddle Up a Little Closer" 1908 - uncredited)
1937The Firefly
(lyrics: "SYMPATHY" 1937 - uncredited, "GIANNINA MIA" 1912 - uncredited, "WHEN A MAID COMES KNOCKING AT YOUR HEART" 1937 - uncredited, "I LOVE YOU DON DIEGO" 1912 - uncredited, "GIANNINA MIA: FINALE" 1912 - uncredited)
1934The Flame Song
(short)
(lyrics: "Song of the Flame", "The Cossack Love Song" - uncredited)
1934The Cat and the Fiddle
(lyrics: "She Didn't Say Yes" 1931 - uncredited, "A New Love is Old" 1931 - uncredited, "The Night Was Made for Love" 1931 - uncredited, "I Watched the Love Parade" 1931 - uncredited, "Poor Pierrot" 1931 - uncredited, "The Breeze Kissed Your Hair" 1931 - uncredited, "One Moment Alone" 1931 - uncredited, "Try to Forget" 1931 - uncredited, "Don't Ask Me Not to Sing" 1933 - uncredited, "The Crystal Candelabra" 1931 - uncredited)
1932/IThe Red Shadow
(short)
(lyrics: "One Alone" - uncredited, "The Riff Song" - uncredited, "One Flower Grows Alone in Your Garden" - uncredited)
1930Sunny
(lyrics: "The Hunt Dance" 1925 - uncredited, "I Was Alone" 1925 - uncredited, "When We Get Our Divorce" 1925 - uncredited, "Who?" 1925 - uncredited, "Sunny" 1925 - uncredited, "D'Ya Love Me?" 1925 - uncredited, "Two Little Love Birds" 1925 - uncredited)
1994That's Entertainment! III
(documentary)
(grateful acknowledgment: to the extraordinary composers and lyricists - as Otto Harbach)
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(acknowledgement: the special style and content of the musical sequences were created by - as Otto Harbach)
1974That's Entertainment!
(documentary)
(acknowledgment: composer of the words and music - as Otto Harbach)
(1910) Stage: Wrote lyrics for "Bright Eyes", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy. Based on a comedy by Charles Dickson and Grant Stewart. Scenic Design by P. Dodd Ackerman. Costume Design by Cora MacCreachy. Lighting Design by Kliegl Brothers, Charles DeSoria and Frank Callaghan. Directed by Morris Uri...
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Alternate Names:
Mr. Otto Harbach | Otto Abels Harbach | Otto Harbach | O.A. Hauerbach | Otto Hauerbach
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