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1929. To U.S. 1919; citizen 1927. Of musical family. Educ: public schools, high school, Grimsby, Ontario; one year college; six months business college, Hamilton. Joined staff of Bank of Hamilton; teller, accountant, then assistant manager, 1909, at Vancouver, British Golumbia branch. Left banking 1912 to take agency of typewriter firm there. Sold agency 1919; to Chicago. Formed publishing company 1922; sold publishing company 1939. Songs: 'Often"; "Arabian Moon"; "I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland"; "Don't Think You'll Be Missed"; "How Do You Do?"; "Yesterday"; "When Summer is Gone"; "Say Mister, Have You Met Rosie's Sister?" Address: c/o ASCAP.
Hart, Lorenz, author; b. New York, N.Y., May 2, 1895; d. New York, N.Y., Nov. 22, 1943. ASCAP 1926. Educ.: New York public schools and Columbia Univ. Won honors as linguist at Columbia; was translating German plays for American producers when composer Richard Rodgers, a student at Columbia, called him to collaborate in varsity musical shows. This partnership resulted in Broadway production The Poor Little Ritz Girl. Many successful musical shows followed: The Garrick Gaieties; Dearest Enemy; The Girl Friend; A Connecticut Yankee; Spring Is Here; Present Arms; Americas Sweetheart; Jumbo; On Your Toes; Babes in Arms; I'd Rather Be Right; The Boys from Syracuse; I Married an Angel; Too Many Girls; Higher and Higher; Pal Joey; By Jupiter. In collaboration with Rodgers wrote songs used in the motion pictures Food for Scandal; Lave Me Tonight; Mississippi. Total number of Rodgers and Hart songs reached more than one thousand, among them: "My Heart Stood Still"; "With a Song in My Heart"; "The Girl Friend"; "Small Hotel"; "Blue Room"; "Mimi"; "Lover"; "Thou Swell"; "Isn't It Romantic?'; "I've |
Got Five Dollars"; "You Took Advantage of Me"; "My Romance"; "Down by the River"; "Soon"; "Easy to Remember"; "Ten Cents a Dance'; "Dancing on the Ceiling"; "You're in My Arms"; "On Your Toes"; "Have You Met Miss Jones?"; "I Married an Angel"; "I'd Rather Be Right"; "Where or When"; "Bewitched"; "Blue Moon"; "Falling In Love With Love"; "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"; "The Lady is a Tramp." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
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Hartman, Don, author, scenario writer, producer, director, motion-picture executive; b. New York, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1900. ASCAP 1935. Educ.: Brooklyn public schools. Soprano in motion-picture house, bellboy, bank clerk, general work in Texas oil fields, chemical salesman, purchasing agent for hospital. Songwriter through connection with Dallas little-theater movement; actor, stage director, author. Played "Andy Hardy" in original Broadway production of Skidding. To Hollywood 1933, screen writer, later producer. Scenarios: The Princess Comes Across; Waikiki Wedding, Road to Singapore, Road to Zanzibar; Life With Henry; Nothing But the Truth; My Favorite Blonde, Road to Morocco; The Gay Deception. Writer and associate producer: Up In Arms, Princess and Pirate; Wonder Man; Down to Earth. Story, production, direction: It Had To Be You. Scenario, production, direction: Every Girl Should Be Married. Production and direction: Holiday Affair. Direction: Four Eyes (It's a Big Country). Scenario and direction: Mr. Imperium. Now supervisor of productions, Paramount. Songs: "I Found a Dream"; "Love At Last"; "Forbidden Lips"; "There's a Bit of Paree in You"; "Song of a Dreamer"; "Oko-lehao"; "Readin', Ritin', Rhythm"; "If I Knew You Better." Home: 710 N. Rexford Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. |
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