He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

Hammerstein also collaborated with Vincent Youmans ( Wildflower ), Rudolf Friml ( Rose-Marie ), and Sigmund Romberg ( The Desert Song and The New Moon ).

He collaborated as lyricist or librettist with Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Louis Hirsch, Herbert Stothart, Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin, and Sigmund Romberg.

After Hart's death, Rodgers collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein, with whom earlier that year he had created the hit musical Oklahoma !.

Youmans collaborated with the greatest songwriters on Broadway: Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Buddy De Sylva and Gus Kahn.

When Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated on Me and Juliet, Rodgers took his old melody and set it to new words by Hammerstein, producing the song " No Other Love ".

He was the producer of the Rudolf Friml operettas The Firefly ( 1912 ), Katinka ( 1915 ) and Rose-Marie ( 1924 ), which he collaborated on with his nephew, Oscar Hammerstein II.

Hammerstein with his wife, photographed aboard a ship.

After quitting law school to pursue theatre, Hammerstein began his first professional collaboration, with Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel.

Throughout the next forty years, Hammerstein teamed with many other composers, including Jerome Kern, with whom Hammerstein enjoyed a highly successful collaboration.

'" After Oklahoma !, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific.

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

The Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theater Studies at Columbia University was established in 1981 with a $ 1-million gift from his family.

At about the age of ten, around the time of his parents ' divorce, Sondheim became friends with James Hammerstein, son of the lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II.

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

In addition to published and unpublished lyrics from West Side Story, Follies and Company, the tome finds Sondheim discussing his relationship with Oscar Hammerstein II and his collaborations with composers, actors and directors throughout his lengthy career.

( This has often been the case with American popular song and musicals in the 20th century, as with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's collaboration, although with the later team of Rodgers and Hammerstein the lyrics were generally written first.

By the 20th century some librettists became recognized as part of famous collaborations, as with Gilbert and Sullivan or Rodgers and Hammerstein.

He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.

His partnership with Hart having problems because of the lyricist's unreliability and declining health, Rodgers began working with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he had previously written a number of songs ( before ever working with Lorenz Hart ).

Many Columbia alumni have gone on to renowned careers in the arts, such as the composers Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, and Art Garfunkel.

In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.

However, Sherman had trouble in getting permission to record for profit from some of the well-known composers and lyricists, who did not tolerate parodies or satires of their melodies and lyrics, including Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, as well as the estates of Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht, which prevented him from releasing parodies or satires of their songs.

** Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers ( composers ), Mary Martin & the original cast for The Sound of Music

The first few decades of the 20th century also saw the rise of popular, comic musical theater, such as the vaudeville tradition and composers and writers like Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin.

* " Bill " ( Show Boat ), a song in the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat

* Show Boat ( 1927 )-music by Jerome Kern, lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld

** 1925 Sunny ( music Jerome Kern, lyrics Hammerstein II )

Classic pop embraces the song output of the Broadway and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter and a host of others.

Ferncliff Cemetery is located on Secor Road in Hartsdale, famous as the burial grounds for many celebrities including Aaliyah, Malcolm X, Heavy D, Judy Garland, Jerome Kern, Joan Crawford, Basil Rathbone, Ed Sullivan, Jam-Master Jay, James Baldwin, Michel Fokine, Tom Carvel, Oscar Hammerstein, Thelonious Monk, Paul Robeson, Minnesota Timberwolves Guard Malik Sealy and others.

Continuing in this vein, Tibbett made a recording of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's song, Ol ' Man River, from Show Boat.

" ( song ), a 1925 popular song written by Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II

Two further films were planned for Grayson in 1941 ; White House Girl, which was later made in 1948 with Durbin, and Very Warm for May, from the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical of the same name.

* January 6 – A somewhat revised and streamlined revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the same theatre at which the original production played back in 1927.

* Three Sisters ( musical ), a 1934 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II

* " Don't Ever Leave Me " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Here Am I " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* Show Boat ( Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II ) – Paris production

Wodehouse & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern.

* " Can't Help Loving Dat Man " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Life Upon The Wicked Stage " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Make Believe " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " You Are Love " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* Show Boat ( Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II )-London production

* " Can't Help Lovin ' Dat Man " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern.