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Joseph E. Howard(1878-1961)

  • Music Department
  • Actor
  • Writer
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Songwriter ("I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"), composer, actor, singer, producer, director and author. He was a boy soprano in vaudeville at age eleven, and toured in a stock-company production of "Little Eva". He wrote he Broadway and Chicago stage scores (also produced and directed) for "The Land of Nod", "The Time, the Place and the Girl", "The Girl Question", "A Stubborn Cinderella", "The Goddess of Liberty", and "The Prince of Tonight". He would also entertain in night clubs and theatres and on radio and elevision. Joining ASCAP in 1921, his chief musical collaborators were Frank Adams, Will Hough and Harold Orlob, and his other popular-song compositions include "Can't Get You Out of My Mind", "Hello, My Baby", "Goodbye, My Lady Love", "There's Nothing Like a Good Old Song", "Somewhere in France Is the Lily", "On a Saturday Night", "Love Me Litle, Love Me Long", "Montana", "Silver in Your Hair", "Whistle a Song", "On the Boulevard", "San Francisco Frizz", "An Echo of Her Smile", "I Don't Like Your Family", "Blow the Smoke Away", "What's the Use of Dreaming?", "Honeymoon", "When You First Kiss the Last Girl You Love", "Be Sweet to Me, Kid", "Tonight Will Never Come Again", and "Cross Your Heart".
BornFebruary 12, 1878
DiedMay 19, 1961(83)
BornFebruary 12, 1878
DiedMay 19, 1961(83)
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Known for

Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, and Daphne Zuniga in Spaceballs (1987)
Spaceballs
7.1
  • Soundtrack("Hello! Ma Baby")
  • 1987
Alan Cumming, Bob Hoskins, Traylor Howard, Jamie Kennedy, Bear, Liam Falconer, and Ryan Falconer in Son of the Mask (2005)
Son of the Mask
2.3
  • Soundtrack(as Joe E. Howard, "Hello Ma Baby")
  • 2005
Betty Compson and Grant Withers in The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
The Time, the Place and the Girl
5.1
  • Writer
  • 1929
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
5.8
  • Soundtrack(as Joe E. Howard, "Hello Ma Baby")
  • 2003

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Music Department



  • Hello! Ma Baby/Play a Simple Melody
    Video
    • Music Department
    • 2017
  • Goodbye My Lady Love
    Short
    • composer: song "Goodbye My Lady Love"
    • 1929
  • Goodbye My Lady Love
    Short
    • composer: song "Goodbye My Lady Love"
    • 1924

Actor



  • Ed Sullivan in The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
    The Ed Sullivan Show
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Singer (as Joe Howard)
    • 1959

Writer



  • Betty Compson and Grant Withers in The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
    The Time, the Place and the Girl
    5.1
    • play
    • 1929
  • Should a Wife Forgive? (1915)
    Should a Wife Forgive?
    • scenario
    • 1915

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Joe E. Howard
  • Born
    • February 12, 1878
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    • May 19, 1961
    • Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Spouses
      Countess Mauritio de Beaufort(her death)
  • Other works
    Active on Broadway in the following productions:
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Biographical Movie

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    He wrote the popular 1904 song "Goodbye, My Lady Love", which is interpolated into the Trocadero nightclub scene in nearly all the American stage productions of Kern and Hammerstein's "Show Boat" (but not in the London stage versions). The song was used in the 1936 film version of the show, but not in the 1929 or 1951 film versions.

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