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Mini Biography:
Songwriter ("Stormy Weather", "Let's Fall in Love"), author, lyricist... moreTrivia:
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. moreFilmography
Soundtrack:
- Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008) (music: "Don't Worry 'Bout Me") (lyrics: "Don't Worry 'Bout Me")
- 45 canciones esenciales (2007) (V) (lyrics: "La tormenta (Stormy Weather)")
- "Late Show with David Letterman" (1 episode, 2007)
... aka "Late Show Backstage" (USA: title for episodes with guest hosts)
... aka "Letterman" (Australia)
... aka "The Late Show" (USA: informal short title)
- Episode dated 2 August 2007 (2007) TV episode (lyrics: "I've Got The World On A String") - Singer's Spotlight (2007) (TV) (writer: "Stormy Weather")
... aka Singer's Spotlight with Ann Hampton Callaway (USA) - Evening (2007) (writer: "I've Got the World On a String")
... aka Spuren eines Lebens (Germany) - Spider-Man 3 (2007) (writer: "Stormy Weather")
... aka Spider-Man 3: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) - Girl 27 (2007) (writer: "Truckin")
- 10 Items or Less (2006) (writer: "I've Got The World On A String")
- Idlewild (2006) (writer: "Kickin' the Gong Around")
- Shut Up and Sing (2006/I) (lyrics: "I've Got the World on a String")
... aka Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace (USA: new title)
... aka The Wedding Weekend (USA: new title) - The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) (lyrics: "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (1931))
- Dean Martin: Encore (2004) (V) (lyrics: "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)")
- Mona Lisa Smile (2003) (writer: "I've Got The World On A String")
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) (writer: "I've Got The World On A String", "I'm Shooting High")
- Hearts in Atlantis (2001) (lyrics: "(I've Got the) World on A String" (1932))
- Dean Martin: That's Amore (2001) (TV) (lyrics: "Get Happy")
- What Women Want (2000) (writer: "I've Got The World On A String")
- "Angel" (1 episode, 2000)
... aka "Angel: The Series" (USA: long title)
- The Trial (2000) TV episode (writer: "Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)") - Autumn in New York (2000) (writer: "Let's Fall in Love")
- Plata quemada (2000) ("Ill Wind")
... aka Burnt Money (Canada: English title) (USA)
... aka Burning Money (International: English title)
... aka Plata quemada (Spain) - Any Given Sunday (1999) (writer: "I CAN'T FACE THE MUSIC")
- The Green Mile (1999) (writer: "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)")
... aka Stephen King's The Green Mile (USA: complete title) - The Story of Us (1999) (writer: "Get Happy")
- Sweet and Lowdown (1999) (writer: "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)")
- Analyze This (1999) (writer: "I've Got The World On A String")
- My Favorite Martian (1999) (writer: "Let's Fall in Love")
... aka My Favourite Martian (Australia) - "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1 episode, 1998)
... aka "DS9" (USA: promotional abbreviation)
... aka "Deep Space Nine" (USA: short title)
... aka "Star Trek: DS9" (USA: short title)
- It's Only a Paper Moon (1998) TV episode (writer: "I've Got the World on a String") - "The Roseanne Show" (1 episode, 1998)
- Episode #1.6 (1998) TV episode (writer: "Get Happy") - Little Voice (1998) (lyrics: "Get Happy" (1930))
- Permanent Midnight (1998) (writer: "I LOVE A PARADE")
- The Rat Pack (1998) (TV) (writer: "I've Got the World On A String")
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998) (writer: "Out In the Cold Again")
- Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997) (TV) (lyrics: "Animal Crackers in My Soup" (uncredited))
- Lolita (1997) (writer: "Stormy Weather")
... aka Lolita (France) - That's Entertainment! III (1994) (lyrics: "Get Happy")
- Jimmy Hollywood (1994) ("I've Got the World on a String")
- "Matlock" (1 episode, 1993)
- Matlock's Bad, Bad, Bad Dream (1993) TV episode (writer: "Stormy Weather") - Sinatra (1992) (TV) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather")
- Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) (TV) (lyrics: "Get Happy")
- Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather")
- Hider in the House (1989) (lyrics: "HARLEM HOLIDAY")
- Happy Together (1989/I) (writer: "Get Happy")
- Shoot to Kill (1988) (writer: "I Love a Parade")
... aka Deadly Pursuit (UK) - "Mozart und Meisel" (1 episode, 1987)
- Hildes Lied (1987) TV episode (lyrics: "Stormy Weather") - Royal Society Jazz Orchestra (1986) (TV) (lyrics: "Truckin'")
- Haunted Honeymoon (1986) ("Get Happy")
- "Mr. Belvedere" (1 episode, 1986)
- The Play (1986) TV episode ("Get Happy") - The Cotton Club (1984) (lyrics: "Truckin'", "Ill Wind")
- City Heat (1984) (lyrics: "Get Happy", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea")
- Crimes of Passion (1984) (writer: "GET HAPPY")
... aka Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion (Australia) - The Tempest (1979) (writer: "Stormy Weather")
- "M*A*S*H" (2 episodes, 1977-1979)
- Ain't Love Grand (1979) TV episode (lyrics: "Stormy Weather" (uncredited))
- Margaret's Marriage (1977) TV episode (lyrics: "Stormy Weather" (uncredited)) - "The Muppet Show" (1 episode, 1976)
- Episode #1.3 (1976) TV episode (lyrics: "Stormy Weather") - That's Entertainment! (1974) (lyrics: "Get Happy")
... aka That's Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM (USA: alternative title) - Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra (1973) (TV) (writer: "I've Got the World on a String")
... aka Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back (USA) - What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) (writer: "Animal Crackers in My Soup")
- "The Johnny Cash Show" (1 episode, 1970)
- Episode #2.1 (1970) TV episode (writer: "Stormy Weather") - End of the Road (1970) (writer: "Don't Worry 'Bout Me")
- "The Hollywood Palace" (1 episode, 1967)
- Episode #5.3 (1967) TV episode (writer: "Stormy Weather") - "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (1 episode, 1963)
... aka "The Dinah Shore Show" (USA: sixth season title)
- Episode #7.8 (1963) TV episode (writer: "Let's Fall in Love") - "Peter Gunn" (1 episode, 1960)
- Sing a Song of Murder (1960) TV episode (writer: "Don't Worry 'Bout Me") - Juke Box Rhythm (1959) (lyrics: "Let's Fall in Love" (uncredited))
- Bell Book and Candle (1958) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather" (1933) (uncredited))
... aka Bell, Book and Candle (USA: poster title) - "The Lux Show" (1 episode, 1958)
... aka "The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney" (USA: complete title)
- Episode #1.39 (1958) TV episode (lyrics: "For You") - Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (1956) (writer: "Get Happy")
- "The Steve Allen Show" (1 episode, 1956)
... aka "The Steve Allen Plymouth Show" (USA: new title)
- Episode #1.7 (1956) TV episode (writer: "When the Sun Comes Out") - Love Me or Leave Me (1955) (lyrics: "Stay On the Right Side, Sister" (uncredited))
- 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955) (lyrics: "Stay On the Right Side Sister")
- It Should Happen to You (1954) (lyrics: "Let's Fall in Love")
- The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953) (TV) (lyrics: "I Love a Parade", "Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)")
- T.V. of Tomorrow (1953) (lyrics: "Lovely Lady")
- Harry James and His Music Makers (1953) (lyrics: "I'm in a Jam with Baby")
- Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952) (writer: "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams")
... aka Castle in the Air (USA: new title) - My Man and I (1952) (writer: "Stormy Weather")
- With a Song in My Heart (1952) (lyrics: "GET HAPPY")
- "The Dennis Day Show" (1 episode)
... aka "The RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day" (USA)
... aka "The RCA Victor Show" (USA)
- The Old Friend (????) TV episode (lyrics: "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams") - Leghorn Swoggled (1951) (lyrics: "Some Sunday Morning" (uncredited))
- Casanova Cat (1951) (lyrics: "Lovely Lady")
- I'll Get By (1950) (lyrics: "I've Got the World on a String")
- Summer Stock (1950) (lyrics: "Get Happy")
... aka If You Feel Like Singing (UK) - Young Man with a Horn (1950) (lyrics: "GET HAPPY")
... aka Young Man of Music (UK)
... aka Young Man with a Trumpet (Australia) - "Toast of the Town" (1 episode, 1949)
... aka "The Ed Sullivan Show" (USA: new title)
- Episode #3.3 (1949) TV episode (writer: "Stormy Weather") - Each Dawn I Crow (1949) (lyrics: "Some Sunday Morning" (uncredited))
- Slightly French (1949) ("Let's Fall in Love")
- Old Rockin' Chair Tom (1948) (lyrics: "Spreadin' Rhythm Around" (1935))
- Race Street (1948) (lyrics: "I'M IN A JAM WITH BABY")
- Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (1948) (lyrics: "Some Sunday Morning")
- Little 'Tinker (1948) (lyrics: "Lovely Lady")
- Back Alley Oproar (1948) (lyrics: "Some Sunday Morning")
- My Wild Irish Rose (1947) (lyrics: "Wee Rose of Killarney", "The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee", "Miss Lindy Lou", "There's Room in My Heart for Them All")
- Cheyenne (1947) (lyrics: "Going Back to Old Cheyenne" (uncredited), "I'm So in Love" (uncredited))
... aka The Wyoming Kid (USA: reissue title) - Hound Hunters (1947) (lyrics: "Lovely Lady")
- Stallion Road (1947) (lyrics: "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues")
- Hair-Raising Hare (1946) (lyrics: "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart")
- Springtime for Thomas (1946) (lyrics: "Lovely Lady")
- Jan Savitt and His Band (1946) (lyrics: "Some Sunday Morning")
- Swing Parade of 1946 (1946) (writer: "Stormy Weather")
- Pillow to Post (1945) (lyrics: "Watcha Say?" (1945) (uncredited))
- San Antonio (1945) (lyrics: "Some Sunday Morning")
- Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) (lyrics: "And There You Are")
- Tee for Two (1945) (lyrics: "Spreadin' the Rhythm Around")
- Hollywood Canteen (1944) (lyrics: "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart", "What Are You Doin' the Rest of Your Life", "Hollywood Canteen" (uncredited))
- Rainbow Island (1944) (writer: "BELOVED")
- Up in Arms (1944) ("All Out For Freedom", "Now I Know", "Tess's Torch Song")
- Stormy Weather (1943) (lyrics: "THERE'S NO TWO WAYS ABOUT LOVE", "STORMY WEATHER")
- This Was Paris (1942) (writer: "What Goes Up Must Come Down")
... aka So This Was Paris - Campus Capers (1942) (music: "Stormy Weather")
- Hullabaloo (1940) (music: "We've Come a Long Way Together" (1940)) (lyrics: "We've Come a Long Way Together" (1940))
- The Dipsy Doodler (1940) (lyrics: "Get Happy")
... aka Vitaphone Melody Master: The Dipsy Doodler (USA: series title) - Love Affair (1939) (lyrics: "Sing My Heart" (1939))
- You're an Education (1938) (lyrics: "I Love a Parade", "On the Rue de la Paix")
- A-Lad-In Bagdad (1938) (lyrics: "On the Rue de la Paix")
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) (lyrics: "Animal Crackers in My Soup")
- Start Cheering (1938) (lyrics: "Rockin' the Town" (1838) (uncredited), "We're On Our Way To College" (uncredited), "Hail, Sigma Psi" (uncredited), "Am I in Another World" (1938) (uncredited), "Love Takes a Holiday" (1938) (uncredited))
- The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) (lyrics: "TRUCKIN' (THEY'RE GOING HOLLYWOOD IN HARLEM)")
- The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937) (lyrics: "On the Rue de la Paix" (uncredited))
- Artists & Models (1937) (lyrics: "Mister Esquire", "Pop Goes the Bubble", "Public Melody No. 1", "Stop You're Breaking My Heart")
- The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) (lyrics: "For You", "On the Rue de la Paix")
... aka Romance Is Sacred (UK) - 23 1/2 Hours Leave (1937) (lyrics: "Good Night My Lucky Day", "It Must Be Love", "We Happen to Be in the Army", "Now You're Talking My Language")
- Hi De Ho (1937) (lyrics: "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (1932))
- Dimples (1936) (lyrics: "Hey, What Did the Blue Jay Say?" (1936) (uncredited), "He Was a Dandy" (1936) (uncredited), "Picture Me Without You" (1936) (uncredited), "Dixie-anna" (1936) (uncredited))
- The Big Show (1936) (lyrics: "Mad About You" (1936) (uncredited))
- Happy Go Lucky (1936) (lyrics: "I'm with You, Right or Wrong")
- The First Baby (1936) (lyrics: "Spreadin' Rhythm Around")
- The Old Mill Pond (1936) (lyrics: "Kickin' the Gong Around")
- Red Nichols & His World Famous Pennies (1936) (lyrics: "Get Happy" (1930) (uncredited))
- King of Burlesque (1936) (lyrics: "Shooting High" (1935), "Whose Big Baby Are You?" (1935), "Spreading Rhythm Around" (1935), "Lovely Lady" (1935), "Too Good to Be True" (1935))
- Curly Top (1935) (lyrics: "Animal Crackers in My Soup" (1935) (uncredited), "Curly Top" (1935) (uncredited), "The Simple Things in Life" (1935) (uncredited))
- Hide-Out (1934) (lyrics: "How's About Tomorrow Night" (1934))
- Don Redman & His Orchestra (1934) (lyrics: "Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)" (uncredited))
... aka Vitaphone Melody Master: Don Redman & His Orchestra (USA: series title) - The Man with Two Faces (1934) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather" (1933))
- We're Not Dressing (1934) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather" (1933) (uncredited))
- Keeps Rainin' All the Time (1934) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)")
- Let's Fall in Love (1933) (lyrics: "Let's Fall in Love" (1933) (uncredited), "Love Is Love Anywhere" (1933) (uncredited), "This Is Only the Beginning" (1933) (uncredited))
- Roman Scandals (1933) (lyrics: "Kickin' the Gong Around")
- California Weather (1933) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather")
- Mr. Broadway (1933) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather")
- The Audition (1933) (lyrics: "Get Happy")
... aka Melody Masters: The Audition (USA: series title) - Sing, Bing, Sing (1933) (lyrics: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea")
- A Bundle of Blues (1933) (lyrics: "Stormy Weather")
- The Big Broadcast (1932) (lyrics: "Kickin' the Gong Around")
- I Love a Parade (1932) (lyrics: "I Love a Parade" (1931))
- The Ball Game (1932) (lyrics: "I Love a Parade" (1931))
- Manhattan Parade (1931) (lyrics: "Temporarily Blue")
- One More Chance (1931) (writer: "Wrap your Trouble in Dreams")
... aka Just One More Chance (USA: alternative title) - The Life of the Party (1930) (lyrics: "Get Happy" (uncredited))
Music Department:
- The Valachi Papers (1972) (composer: song "Stormy Weather")
... aka Carteggio Valachi (Italy)
... aka Cosa Nostra
... aka Joe Valachi - I segreti di Cosa Nostra (Italy)
... aka Le dossier Valachi (France) - Start Cheering (1938) (lyricist)
- The Big Show (1936) (composer: songs)
- Dimples (1936) (lyricist)
- Curly Top (1935) (lyricist)
Writer:
- Stormy Weather (1943) (screenplay)
Additional Details
Other Works:
Say When (1934). Musical comedy. Music by Ray Henderson. Material by Jack McGowan; Lyrics by Ted Koehler. Musical Direction by Max Meth. Music orchestrated by Conrad Salinger. Musical numbers directed by Russell Markert. Directed by Bertram Harrison. Imperial Theatre: 8 Nov 1934- 12 Jan 1935 (76 performances). Cast: John Albert, Joanna Allen, Ronnie Beck, Donald Brown, Helen Buck, Helene Cambridge, Phyllis Cameron, Joe Carroll, Charles Collins, Gloria Cook, Betty Dell,Don Drew, Lois Eckhart, Lillian Emerson, Frances Foley, Marjorie Gayle, George B. Herman, Taylor Holmes, Bob Hope (as "Jimmy Blake"), Joan Igon, Lorraine Jannee, Aimee La Rue, Dick Langdon, Arlene Leahy, J. Elliott Leonard, Nick Long, Jr., Charlotte Lorraine, Fred Lyon, Frederick Manatt, Dennie Moore (as "Aimee Bates"), Mickey Moore, Ed Murray, M.O'Brien, Viola Paulson, Gedda Petry, Jack Richards, Harry Richman (as "Bob Breese")., Michael Romanoff, Etna Ross, Martin Sheppard, Edwina Steele, Sylvia Stone, Martha Tibbetts, Clyde Veaux, John Walsh, Linda Watkins, J.P. Wilson, Cora Witherspoon (as "Myra Palmer"), Frank Worden. Produced by Jack McGowan and Ray Henderson. moreMessage Boards
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