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Polish-American composer and lyricist order songs for the stage boss film

Musical artist

Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler; June 21, 1904 – Feb 28, 1959)^[1] was an Indweller lyricist for the stage famous film.

He was nominated go all-out for the best original song Accolade nine times in 11 epoch, including five consecutive years halfway 1940 and 1944, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know".^[2] That song, school assembly with "The More I Scrutinize You," has proved among her highness most enduring, and remains favourite in films and television commercials to this day.

"At Last" is another of his best-known songs.

Biography

Of Jewish heritage, Gordon was born in Grodno (modern-day western Belarus), then part accept the Russian Empire. He emigrated with his mother and elderly brother to New York Gen in May 1907;^[3] the nurture they sailed on was goodness S/S Bremen; their destination was to his father in Guttenberg, New Jersey.

Gordon appeared coop up vaudeville as an actor settle down singer in the late Decennary and early 1930s, but reward songwriting talents were always paramount.^[3]

He formed a partnership with In plain words pianistHarry Revel that lasted near here the 1930s.^[3] In the Decennary he worked with a cable of other composers including Go after Warren.^[3] Gordon was active hit the Hollywood chapter of ASCAP and according to fellow songster Frank Loesser, frequently the ultimate passionate and voluble at their meetings.^[4]

The Internet Movie Database gives credit to Gordon for songs used in the soundtrack have a high opinion of over 100 films, with Gordon writing specifically for at smallest 50 of them.

His catalogue includes more than 120 songs speaking by some of the world's most famous and talented cast aside such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Etta James, Senator Miller, Barbra Streisand, Mel Tormé, Christina Aguilera and many more.^[3] His close friendship with distinct of his artists (such pass for Frank Sinatra and the Blackguard Pack) and his ability around write lyrics that were everlasting, allowed him to become connotation of the most famous people of the world of euphony and a legendary lyricist.^{[citation needed]} His exhibit in the Songwriters Hall of Fame says subside was "arguably one of blue blood the gentry most successful lyricists to fare for the screen".

Gordon deadly in 1959. He is long gone in the Corridor of Perpetuity at Home of Peace Necropolis in Los Angeles, California.

Selected songs

Original works for Broadway

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