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Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was a recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990.
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Jule Styne ( December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994 ) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.
Styne was born in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.
Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.
Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".
Thus, Jule Styne was hired.
The film was adapted by Jule Styne ( music ) and Marsha Norman ( book and lyrics ) into a Broadway musical, which was directed by Stanley Donen.
Anchors Aweigh was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gene Kelly ), Best Cinematography, Color ( Robert Planck, Charles P. Boyle ), Best Music, Song ( for Jule Styne ( music ) and Sammy Cahn ( lyrics ) for " I Fall in Love Too Easily ") and Best Picture.
Gypsy's memoir, titled Gypsy, was published in 1957 and was taken as inspirational material for the Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable.
The creative team, composer Jule Styne, lyricist Sammy Cahn and writer Stephen Longstreet had worked in Hollywood, as had the producers Monte Proser and Joseph Kipness ( who had also produced several short-lived Broadway shows ) and actors Phil Silvers, who was known for his on-screen con-man persona, and Nanette Fabray.
Original music for the park was written by Jule Styne, composer of many Broadway musicals, including Gypsy and Funny Girl.
Robbins re-teamed with Sondheim and Laurents, and the music was by Jule Styne.
When the stage show was adapted for the screen, he and songwriting partner Jule Styne were asked to write a title tune, which eventually garnered them both Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Song entitled " Funny Girl ".
Jule Styne said of him: " He was an extremely talented and knowledgeable man of the theater.
The commentary was done by the fictional Dan Stevens ( Terry McGovern ) and Peter O ' Keefe ( Jay Styne ).
Look to the Lilies was a short-lived Broadway musical with a book by Leonard Spigelgass, lyrics by Sammy Cahn, and music by Jule Styne.
" It commented that Phil Silvers was cast against type, here playing " the fall guy, the poor sap who ends as the victim .... Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written sprightly lyrics, and Jule Styne has contributed some attractive as well as some ear-shattering tunes.
Despite its credentials, including composer Jule Styne, it never was staged again.
Her first solo album Just in Time: Judy Kuhn sings Jule Styne was released in 1995.
The melody was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
It was nominated for an Academy Award as " Best Song " but was defeated by " Three Coins in the Fountain " from the movie of the same name written by Jule Styne and lyricist Sammy Cahn.
Styne and 1972
During 1972, a musical play based on the screenplay of the film, entitled Sugar, opened on Broadway, starring Elaine Joyce, Robert Morse, Tony Roberts and Cyril Ritchard, with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and ( all-new ) music by Jule Styne.
Styne and Award
* 1955 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song ( Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn )
Harburg and Gorney were offered a contract with Paramount: in Hollywood, Harburg worked with composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, and Burton Lane, and wrote the lyrics for The Wizard of Oz for which he won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for Over the Rainbow.
Together with Styne, they shared a Grammy Award nomination for Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Original Cast from a Motion Picture or TV.
The title tune " It's a Great Feeling " ( written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn ), received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
Styne and Kennedy
In the field of musical theatre, the Guild has promoted works by Richard Rodgers, teamed with both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, George and Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne, and Meredith Willson, all of which have become classics. Under President John F. Kennedy, the Guild was engaged to assemble a US theatre company, headed by Helen Hayes, to tour the capitals of Europe and South America with works by Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and William Gibson.
Styne and 1990
* 1990 — Dizzy Gillespie, Katharine Hepburn, Risë Stevens, Jule Styne, and Billy Wilder
These included collaborations with Burton Lane ( two volumes: 1990, 1992 ), Jule Styne ( 1991 ), Jerry Herman ( Michael Feinstein Sings the Jerry Herman Songbook, 1993 ), Hugh Martin ( 1995 ), Jimmy Webb ( Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb, 2003 ) and Jay Livingston / Ray Evans ( 2002 ).
Styne and .
In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas.
Her agent Al Levy convinced her to attend a party at the home of composer Jule Styne.
Her performance of the song " Embraceable You " impressed Styne and his partner, Sammy Cahn and they recommended her for a role in Romance on the High Seas, which they were working on for Warner Brothers.
It would be the first of over 1, 500 published songs Styne would compose in his career.
Styne wrote original music for the short-lived, themed amusement park Freedomland U. S. A. which opened on June 19, 1960.
At John Garfield's suggestion of opening a servicemen's club in Hollywood, Davis — with the aid of Warner, Cary Grant and Jule Styne — transformed an old nightclub into the Hollywood Canteen, which opened on October 3, 1942.
Among those who crossed paths with Abbott early in their careers are Desi Arnaz, Gene Tierney, Betty Comden, Hal Prince, Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, Bob Fosse, Stephen Sondheim, Elaine Stritch, John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Liza Minnelli.
Audiences and critics consider this program to be a holiday classic, due in part to the original songs of the Broadway team of Jule Styne ( music ) and Bob Merrill ( lyrics ), who collaborated on the musical Funny Girl soon after their work on the special.
Her writing partnership with Adolph Green lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed " Freed Unit " at MGM, Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein.
Their stage work of the 1950s included the revue Two on the Aisle, starring Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray, with music by Jule Styne ; Wonderful Town, a musical adaptation of the play My Sister Eileen with music by Bernstein ; and Bells Are Ringing, which reunited them with Judy Holliday and Jule Styne.
Comden and Green contributed additional lyrics to the 1954 musical Peter Pan, translated and streamlined Die Fledermaus for the Metropolitan Opera, and collaborated with Styne on songs for the play-with-music Say, Darling.
Comden and Green's Broadway work in the 1960s included four collaborations with Jule Styne.
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