In 1955 Cahn and Van Heusen formed a partnership and wrote material for Sinatra, whose recordings won them Oscars for All the Way (1957), High Hopes (1959), and Call Me Irresponsible (1963). He is best known for his romantic lyrics to tin pan alley and Broadway songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others. 1 recording, "It's Magic." As a kid, he played the violin. ." Gee, said Patty, can we have it? Cahn penned English lyrics to the song, the Andrew Sisters recorded it, and it shot both Cahn and the Sisters to national fame, eventually selling over one million copies. His father was a restaurateur. Changed his last name from Cohen to Kahn to avoid confusion with actor/comedian Sammy Cohen and again from Kahn to Cahn to avoid confusion with lyricist Gus Kahn. The show was not a success, but it included "I'll Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her". In the middle of the act, [Osterman] took a change of pace and said hed like to sing a song hed written. Contemporary Musicians. He was married twice: First to vocalist and former Goldwyn girl, Gloria Delson, in 1945, with whom he had two children, and, in 1970, to Virginia Basile. In fact, he was a consummate craftsman whose lyrics hold up well against those of the classic songwriters who preceded him by a decade or so on Broadway, and for all his disclaimers, his words revealed him to be an unashamed romantic who reveled in detailing the wonders of love through verse. There they provided songs for the film Ladies Must Live (1940), including the minor hit I Could Make You Care, recorded by Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra on vocals, thus beginning an association between Cahn and Sinatra. Born on New York's Lower East Side in June 1913, Samuel Cohen was the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. More about Sammy Cahn edit Dating History # 3 Then one day in 1935, a friend told them that the bandleader Jimmy Lunceford, who was then playing at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, needed a song. The songwriters work in 1964 on the movie musical Robin and the Seven Hoods, starring Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bing Crosby, included My Kind Of Town, an Oscar nominee that became a Sinatra signature song. ." ." Between 1942 and 1951 they wrote songs for 19 films, including Anchors Aweigh (1944) and Romance on the High Seas (1948), which gave Doris Day her first No. During the late 1930s the team of Cahn and Chaplin wrote under contract for New York Citys Vitaphone Studios, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. that produced short feature films. Cahn and Stynes first attempt at a Broadway musical, Glad to See You, closed out of town in 1944, but Guess Ill Hang My Tears Out to Dry from the score later became a standard. In 1944 they scored major hits with Victry Polka, recorded by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, and Ill Walk Alone, recorded by Dinah Shore. Soon they parted ways, and in 1942 Cahn began writing with Jules Styne. Max Wilk, Theyre Playing Our Song (1973), has a chapter featuring an interview, and David Ewen, American Songwriters (1987), contains a good entry. Updates? His show ran for nine months on Broadway and almost two decades on tour before declining health put an end to Cahns performing career. There is no biography. He was, anyway, such a lethal song- demonstrator he could have made the telephone directory sound like a brilliant lyric. I asked. 'That's the difference between a hit and a. Sammy had no illusions about his work. . Lou and I wrote "Rhythm is Our Business," material for Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra, which became my first ASCAP copyright. Steve Khan (born Steven Harris Cahn; Sammy Cahn is a member of the following lists: People from Manhattan, 1993 deaths and Best Song Academy Award winning songwriters. Sammy Cahn was in a relationship with Jill St. John (1980). . He was chosen because he had received more Academy Award nominations than any other songwriter, and also because he received four Oscars for his song lyrics. Just sing the end of 'All the Way' or 'Three Coins in the Fountain''Make it mine, make it mine, MAKE IT MINE!' They wrote "My Kind Of Town" for Sinatra's 1964 film Robin and the Seven Hoods. Washington Post, July 11, 1990; January 16, 1993. Gloria Delson and Sammy Cahn were married for 18 years. They had two children and were divorced in April 1964. Steven Harris Cahn was born in Los Angeles. .' Selected discography Gomery, Douglas "Cahn, Sammy Following the break with Styne, Frank Sinatra introduced Cahn to a new composing partner, Jimmy Van Heusen. A second show, Walking Happy, opened a year later and ran for 161 performances. In 1956 Cahn began a full-time collaboration with Jimmy Van Heusen, and they concentrated on songs for Sinatra, starting with the title song for his film The Tender Trap. [4] They first met when Cahn invited Chaplin to audition for him at the Henry Street Settlement. But his instincts were sure. The reason was a new partner, Jimmy Van Heusen, and the renewed career of hit-maker Frank Sinatra. You Can Fly! and more from FamousFix.com, Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA, Frank Sinatra, Lou Levy, Tommy Dorsey, Andy Kirk. But this was only a hobby until he was 13. Let It Snow! They were one of a select team of composer/lyricists who wrote the year's top ten hits, year in and year out. or solo. For it, they wrote Love and Marriage, a hit for Sinatra and an Emmy Award winner. He was covered by numerous singing legends and used across multiple media. He was married twice: first in 1945 to vocalist and former Goldwyn girl Gloria Delson[12] with whom he had two children. His Broadway stage scores include "High Button Shoes", "Two's Company", "Skyscraper", and music for the marionette show "Les Poupees de Paris". Sammy Cahn. The group played local gigs and then began traveling to perform in hotels in Atlantic City and the summer resorts of the Catskills. 'The only way to get Sammy talking about, say, nuclear annihilation,' a friend observed, 'is to ask him, 'How will nuclear annihilation affect the catalogue of Sammy Cahn?' He was first married to vocalist and former Goldwyn girl Gloria Delson in 1945, with whom he fathered two children. He played the piano and violin, and won an Oscar four times for his songs, including the popular hit "Three Coins in the Fountain". Their first work together came with the television production of Thornton Wilders play Our Town. With music by Nicholas Brodzsky, Cahn wrote Mario Lanza's first hit "Be My Love"(1950). His mother did not approve of Sammy studying it though, feeling that the piano was a woman's instrument, so he took violin lessons. Award-winning songwriter ("All the Way" [Academy Award, 1957], "Three Coins in the Fountain" [Academy Award, 1954], "Love and Marriage" [Emmy Award, 1955], "High Hopes" [Academy Award, 1959], "Call Me Irresponsible" [Academy Award, 1963]), composer, author and publisher, educated at Seward Park High School in New York. He later took over the presidency of that organization from his friend Johnny Mercer when Mercer became ill.[8] [2] As a session musician, he appeared on albums by Ashford & Simpson, Rupert Holmes, Billy Joel, and Steely Dan. He was chosen because he had received more Oscar nominations than any other songwriter, receiving twenty-six during his career. . Sammy Cahn, Oscar-Winning Lyricist, Dies By MYRNA OLIVER Jan. 16, 1993 12 AM PT TIMES STAFF WRITER Sammy Cahn, the burlesque violinist who grew up to write some of America's favorite songs. Musical idioms had changed and the contributions of Sammy Cahn would fade into the world of nostalgia. I got a room in their offices, and we started writing special material. They dated for 1 year after getting together in 1945 and married in 1946. An Evening With Sammy Cahn, DRG, 1978, reissued, 1993. . In 1974, Cahn did a one-man show on Broadway called Words and Music. (McLaglen), The Heartbreak Kid (May); A Touch of Class (Frank), Whiffs (Post); I Will, I Will . He continued to place occasional songs in films until 1987. He himself downplayed his abilities. ." Cahn was born Samuel Cohen in the Lower East Side of New York City, to Jewish immigrants from Poland. 'Sing me his medley,' he'd say, and off you'd go, treading carefully. More discriminating, his wife Tita was much taken by a phrase I once used, describing Sammy's songs as 'providing a soundtrack for people's memories'. A unique love song may be the hard, LeDoux, Chris He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. Named to list of "22 All-Time Greatest Jazz Guitarists", This page was last edited on 23 November 2022, at 20:09. He married on 2 August 1970, to Virginia Tita Basile Curtis, a fashion consultant. My opinion of the music of today, he told Pulse!, is simply put: Whatever the number-one song in the world is at this moment, I wish my name were on it.. Sources Cahn and Styne had two number-one hits in 1946, Let It Snow! Cahn explained in his autobiography: One day Lou (Levy) brought the Andrews Sisters, Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne up to our apartment. In 1970, he married Virginia (Tita) Curtis, a fashion designer. ' Sinatra liked him enough to write the sleeve notes for his recital album and the introductions to his song-sheet collections, but Cahn was equally appreciative of praise from less exalted quarters. As a skinny, bespectacled kid, it kept him out of trouble with his parents and the neighborhood bullies. Schwartz, Jonathan, "Call him irreplaceable," in Gentleman's Quarterly, July 1991. But the best of his songs - 'I'll Walk Alone', 'I Should Care' - will endure. The songwriters had begun working for Vitaphone Studios, writing songs for film shorts; from these efforts Please Be Kind, recorded by Red Norvo and His Orchestra, with Mildred Bailey on vocals, became another number-one hit in May. Retrieved February 23, 2023 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/cahn-sammy. Despite his father's advice to avoid a career in the music business, he graduated from UCLA with a degree in music composition and theory. In the early 1940s Sinatra was signed by MGM to appear in the musical Anchors Aweigh; he refused to sing unless Cahn wrote the material. Within the Cite this article tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. 18 June 1913 in New York City; d. 15 January 1993 in Los Angeles, California), lyricist whose songs, used primarily in motion pictures, included numerous popular hits. The duo wrote songs for the films Anchors Aweigh (1945), Tonight and Every Night (1945), Wonder Man (1945), The Kid From Brooklyn (1946), Romance on the High Seas (1948), and The West Point Story (1950). "Cahn, Sammy In 1959 came Sinatra's film A Hole in the Head, for which they wrote "High Hopes". "[13], Over the course of his career, he was nominated for 31 Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and an Emmy Award. Sammy Cahn Real name Samuel Cohen Born June 18, 1913 Died January 15, 1993 Country United States IPI 00004803224 165 works 00880562137 00887334644 Affiliation ASCAP Comments Primarily a lyricist, Cahn sometimes wrote music. ." Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Sammy Cahn, one of the most renowned and celebrated lyricists of the past six decades, died Friday of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. The 86th!" A real rodeo cowboy in a musical world saturated with artificial ones, Chris LeDoux has pursued an unusual country m, Sammartini, Giuseppe (Francesco Gaspare Melchiorre Baldassare), https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/cahn-sammy, https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cahn-sammy, https://www.encyclopedia.com/movies/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/cahn-sammy, https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cahn-sammy. In its day, 'Five Minutes More' outsold the entire Gershwin catalogue. In the initial stages, Sammy Cahn wrote along with Saul Chaplin. He married his second wife, Virginia Tita Basile, in 1970. Cahn and Brodszkys title song for the Lanza film Because Youre Mine (1952) was another major hit and Academy Award nominee. Cahn died of congestive heart failure on January 15, 1993, at Cedars-Sinai Medial Center in Los Angeles. I Should Care (autobiography), New York, 1974. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. Cahn wrote many songs specially for certain singers. https://www.encyclopedia.com/movies/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/cahn-sammy, Gomery, Douglas "Cahn, Sammy Eyewitness quartet. 23 Feb. 2023 . For more than a century, a large number of immigrant Jews from Poland, Germany and Russia fled to t, Mercer, Johnny He got acquainted with Lou Levy his childhood friend and a renowned music publisher. Sammy Cohen, who adopted the professional surname Cahn, wrote his first song when he was about 16 years old. His war songs still have powerful resonances for that generation. Cahn said, "I'd learned a few chords on the piano, maybe two, so I'd already tried to write a song. Early on, he learned to play the violin, and from the time he was fourteen he played in local Bar Mitzvah bands. He was the father of Laurie Cahn and jazz/fusion guitarist Steve Khan[7] who, early in his career, changed the spelling of his last name to Khan in order to "create a separate identity from [his] famous father" and because he was "so hurt and angry with him for so many childhood things. His next top-ten hit, in December 1956, came with Sinatras recording of Hey! About the time Cahn was becoming frantic from lack of work, he was asked to write songs with composer Jule Styne. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 300.0, Rolloff: -10.0. David Gaywood/AP 2013 marked the 100th anniversary. Cahn wrote the lyrics for the following Broadway musicals: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Samuel Cohen (Sammy Cahn), lyricist, born New York City 18 June 1913, married 1945 Gloria Delson (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1964), 1970 Tita Curtis, died Los Angeles 15. (He would ultimately receive a total of twenty-six nominations, the most for any songwriter.) The couple had two children. Samuel Cohen (June 18, 1913 - January 15, 1993), known professionally as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist, songwriter, and musician. He had four siblings -all sisters - Sadye, Pearl, Florence, and Evelyn. "Cahn, Sammy He was a restaurant cashier, played violin in a theater-pit orchestra, worked at a meat-packing plant, and had other jobs as a tinsmith, freight-elevator operator, and bindery porter. During his long career, Cahn worked with many different composers. Samuel Cohen (Sammy Cahn), lyricist, born New York City 18 June 1913, married 1945 Gloria Delson (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1964), 1970 Tita Curtis, died Los Angeles 15 January 1993. Much of Sammy Cahn's early work was written in partnership with Saul Chaplin. At the end of the 1930s, Warner Brothers, Vitaphones parent company, transferred Cahn and Chaplin to Hollywood. Rachel Cahn Leifer, the daughter of Laurie Cahn of San Francisco and Jonathon Leifer of Los Angeles, was married last evening to Joshua Dempsey Norman, the son of Elizabeth Norman . I began to frame a song in my head. The song garnered Cahn his first Oscar. Sammy Cahn was previously married to Virginia Tita Basile (1970 - 1993) and Gloria Delson (1946 - 1964). (1968), with Van Heusen, and the unsuccessful 1970 stage musical Look to the Lilies with Styne. Sammy Cahn wrote Teach Me Tonight, I Fall in Love Too Easily, All My Tomorrows, All That Love Went to Waste and other songs. Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 - January 15, 1993) was a Jewish American lyricist, songwriter and musician. [2] He took piano lessons as a child and played drums for the surf rock band the Chantays. Working again with JuleStyne, Cahn won an Oscar for the title song of the 1954 film Three Coins in the Fountain. In 1940, Cahn and Chaplin went to Hollywood. They achieved a major success on Broadway with the 1947 musical High Button Shoes, whose score included "Papa, Won't You Dance With Me" and "I Still Get Jealous." Recorded live in Tokyo, Japan. In 1988, an annual award for movie songs and scores was created and was named the Sammy Awards in honor of Cahn. In 1974 he branched out into performing in public, staging an autobiographical Broadway revue, Words and Music, in which he sang his songs and told stories about his life. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. (Wise); A Flea in Her Ear (Charon); Bandolero! His facility as a lyricist and his earthy manner, along with his long career in Hollywood, caused him to be underestimated both for the quality of his work and its emotional content. 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In 1955, Sinatra introduced Cahn to composer Jimmy Van Heusen, beginning Cahn's last major collaboration. 2019Encyclopedia.com | All rights reserved. The following year, they wrote the title song for the acclaimed Sinatra album September of My Years, yet another Grammy song of the year nominee. Love and Marriage is the opening theme song for Married.With Children. You Can Fly!" They returned to the hit parade eleven months later with I Want My Share of Love, recorded by Larry Clinton and His Orchestra. They had no children. Sammy Cahn was one of the mainstays of Hollywood's popular music industry during its Golden Age from the 1930s to the 1960s. From his earliest lyrics, like 'Please Be Kind' (1935), he had a flair for simple, catchy words that sledgehammered their way into public consciousness. Sammy Cahn was previously married to Virginia Tita Basile (1970 - 1993) and Gloria Delson (1946 - 1964). On his first three albums Tightrope (1977), The Blue Man (1978), and Arrows (1979), he was trying "to single-handledly keep alive the sound of the original Brecker Brothers band. From the beginning it was fun, he remembered. The song achieved the Emmy Award in 1956. SAMMY CAHN(1913-1993) by Robin Armstrong Personal Information Born: Samuel Cohen, June 18, 1913, in New York, NY; son of Abraham, and Elka Riss Cohen. Known for songs such as Come Fly with Me and Love and Marriage. In 1947 they finally succeeded on Broadway, writing the songs for the musical High Button Shoes, which opened on 9 October and ran for 727 performances, the longest-running musical of the 19471948 season. One time when he had been at the theater instead of at school, he was spotted by a friend of his mother, who reported Sammys truancy. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The song that made Cahn and Chaplin famous and rich enough for Cahn to buy his parents a new house was the specialty number Bei Mir Bist Du Schn (Means That Youre Grand). Cahn heard this Yiddish song at the Apollo Theater and thought an English version would work well. Cahn pooh-poohed such exhaustive examination: he wrote it in six minutes (or four, or two), and he wrote it instinctively. He had trouble selling the idea at first, but then an as-yet-unknown sister act from the Midwest heard the song. Over the next six years, Cahn had no permanent song-writing partner. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. Help us build our profile of Sammy Cahn! Their songs include Ill Walk Alone, I Fall in Love Too Easily, Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night in the Week, As Long as Theres Music, Come Out, Come Out, Five Minutes More, and The Things We Did Last Summer.. Both wrote songs for Warner Brothers in a studio in Brooklyn, New York. . lists, This was only one of many songs that Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote for Frank Sinatra. Also in 1955, Cahn and Van Heusen wrote a TV musical version of Our Town, which starred Sinatra, Paul Newman, and Eva Marie Saint. The couple had two children. They wrote Rhythm Is Our Business, which was recorded for the Decca label and became a modest hit. They even call it 'a vaudeville finish,' and it comes through in many of my songs. [2] He took piano lessons as a child and played drums for the surf rock band the Chantays. He was married twice: First to vocalist and former Goldwyn girl, Gloria Delson, in 1945, with whom he had two children, and, in 1970, to Virginia Basile. He was married twice: first to vocalist and former Goldwyn girl Gloria Delson . Then, in 1935 they wrote "Rhythm Is Our Business" for the Jimmy Lunceford Band. In 1960, he even managed a song for the widowed and divorced, 'The Second Time Around', tackling a difficult assignment tastefully and sensitively. Sammy Cahn: Mario Lanza singles chronology "Toast of New Orleans" (1950) "Be My Love" (1950) "Granada" (1950) "Be My Love" is a popular song with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Nicholas Brodszky. 'What about these days?' Encyclopedia.com. Awards: Academy Awards for songs "Three Coins in the Fountain," 1954; "All the Way," 1957; "High Hopes," 1959; "Call Me Irresponsible," 1963. https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cahn-sammy, Kampel, Stewart "Cahn, Sammy . Award-winning songwriter ("All the Way" [Academy Award, 1957], "Three Coins in the Fountain" [Academy Award, 1954], "Love and Marriage" [Emmy Award, 1955], "High Hopes" [Academy Award, 1959], "Call Me Irresponsible" [Academy Award, 1963]), composer, author and publisher, educated at Seward Park High School in New York. 'What's wrong?' Asked what comes first - the words or the music - he'd reply, 'The phone call.' But with "Three Coins in the Fountain," a major hit in 1953, Cahn's career was off again. The early 1950s marked a decline in original movie musicals, but Cahn kept busy writing title songs for nonmusical films; in 1954 he teamed with Jule Styne again to write Three Coins in the Fountain, a chart-topping, million-selling hit that finally won him the Academy Award for best song, on his tenth nomination. Sammy Cahn died in Los Angeles, California on January 15, 1993. He joined ASCAP in 1936, and his chief musical collaboraors included Saul Chaplin, Jule Styne, and James Van Heusen. . These were authored jointly with Van Heusen and Allen Byrns, Joe Hisaishi and Yuichiro Oda. The show ran for 127 performances on Broadway, and then Cahn toured it around the United States and in England. [4] After three lessons and following his bar mitzvah, he joined a small dixieland band called Pals of Harmony, which toured the Catskill Mountains in the summer and also played at private parties. . Sammy Cahn died on January 15, 1993, at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Nationality: American. Compositions 'You can't hear that word to that note,' he'd say, 'without understanding the emotions of the singer and wanting to cry just a little yourself.' Gomery, Douglas "Cahn, Sammy In 1992 he told Pulse! Accustomed to Tin Pan Alleymen demo-ing the tune in a pared-down piano version, he was presented with a fully synthesized wall of sound: 'I could write to that kind of tune,' he reckoned, 'if only I could hear it.' Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? (The same year, he published his autobiography, I Should Care.) Argentine Nights (Rogell); Ladies Must Live (Smith), Time Out for Rhythm (Salkow); Go West, Young Lady (Strayer); Sing for Your Supper (Barton); Rookies on Parade (Santley); Two Latins from Manhattan (Barton); Honolulu Lu (Barton), Two Yanks in Trinidad (Ratoff); Johnny Doughboy (Auer); Blondie Goes to College (Strayer); Blondie's Blessed Event (Strayer); Youth on Parade (Rogell), Crazy House (Cline); Lady of Burlesque (Wellman); Let's Face It (Lanfield); Thumbs Up (Santley); The Heat's On (Ratoff), Follow the Boys (Sutherland); Knickerbocker Holiday (Brown); Jam Session (Barton); Carolina Blues (Jason); Step Lively (Whelan); Jamie (Curtiz); A Song to Remember (C. Vidor); Tonight and Every Night (Saville), Anchors Aweigh (Sidney); The Stork Club (Walker); Thrill of a Romance (Thorpe), The Kid from Brooklyn (McLeod); Cinderella Jones (Berkeley); Earl Carroll Sketchbook (Rogell); Tars and Spars (Green); The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (Bernhard); It Happened in Brooklyn (Whorf), Romance on the High Seas (Curtiz); Sons of Adventure (Canutt); Two Guys from Texas (Butler); Miracle of the Bells (Pichel), It's a Great Feeling (Butler); Borderline (Seiter); Always Leave Them Laughing (Del Ruth); Anna Lucasta (Rapper), Young Man with a Horn (Curtiz); The Toast of New Orleans (Taurog); The West Point Story (Del Ruth), Rich, Young and Pretty (Taurog); Sugarfoot (Marin); Two Tickets to Broadway (Kern); Double Dynamite (Cummings), April in Paris (Butler); She's Working Her Way Through College (Humberstone); Stazione Termini (Indiscretion of an American Wife) (De Sica), Because You're Mine (Hall); Peter Pan (Luske, Geronimi, and Jackson); Three Sailors and a Girl (Del Ruth) (+ pr), Three Coins in the Fountain (Negulesco); Vera Cruz (Aldrich), The Tender Trap (Walters); Love Me or Leave Me (C. Vidor); The Court Jester (Panama and Frank); Anything Goes (Lewis); Pete Kelly's Blues (Webb); You're Never Too Young (Taurog); How to Be Very, Very Popular (Johnson); Ain't Misbehavin' (Buzzell); The Seven Year Itch (Wilder), Meet Me in Las Vegas (Rowland); Written on the Wind (Sirk); Quincannon, Frontier Scout (Selander); Serenade (A. Mann); Somebody Up There Likes Me (Wise); Forever Darling (Hall); The Opposite Sex (Miller) Pardners (Taurog); Beau James (Shavelson), Pal Joey (Sidney); The Joker Is Wild (C. Vidor); Until They Sail (Wise); Ten Thousand Bedrooms (Thorpe); Don't Go Near the Water (Walters); This Could Be the Night (Wise), The Long Hot Summer (Ritt); Indiscreet (Donen); Paris Holiday (Oswald); Some Came Running (Minnelli); Home Before Dark (LeRoy); Rock-a-Bye Baby (Tashlin); The Sound and the Fury (Ritt); Party Girl (Ray); Kings Go Forth (Daves), A Hole in the Head (Capra); Who Was That Lady? 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