Forman Brown(1901-1996)
- Music Department
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter, composer and author, educated at the University of Michigan
(BA, MA). He wrote the score for the college variety show, then taught
English at the University of Michigan and was an assistant professor at
North Carolina State University between 1923-1926. He co-founded the
Yale Puppeteers at the Turnabout Theatre in Hollywood, and wrote songs
and sketches. Later he wrote the Broadway stage score for "Music in My
Heart",and new lyrics for "The Red Mill", and also composed for Los
Angeles and San Francicsxo Civic Light Opera productions including "The
Merry Widow", "The Chocolate Soldier", and "The Great Waltz". He wrote
the books "The Pie-Eyed Piper" and "Punch's Progress". He wrote special
material for Elsa Lanchester, Imogene Coca, Shirley Booth, and Edgar
Bergen. Joining ASCAP in 1959, he collaborated musically with Raymond
Scott, Franz Steininger, Henry Russell and Rudolf Friml. His
popular-song compositions include "Song of the Sleighbells", "While
There's a Song to Sing", "Stolen Kisses", and "It Must Be
Religion".