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 ".

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

A selection of the many songs that Styne wrote:

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.

Rosenthal also wrote the book for the musical version of Bar Mitzvah Boy, with music by Jule Styne.

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.

** Jule Styne & Robert Merrill ( composers ) & the original cast ( Barbra Streisand, Sydney Chaplin, Danny Meehan, Kay Medford, Jean Stapleton & John Lankston ) for Funny Girl

Do Re Mi is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a book by Garson Kanin, who also directed the original 1960 Broadway production.

* Gypsy ( 1959 ) ( music by Jule Styne ; book by Arthur Laurents ; directed by Jerome Robbins )

The film was adapted by Jule Styne ( music ) and Marsha Norman ( book and lyrics ) into a Broadway musical, which was directed by Stanley Donen.

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.

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.

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.

The squeaky voice, the embarrassed giggle, the brassy naivete, the dimples, the teeter-totter walk fortunately remain unimpaired ... Miss Holliday now adds a trunk-full of song-and-dance routines ... Without losing any of that doll-like personality, she is now singing music by Jule Styne and dancing numbers composed by Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse.

** Peter Pan – Music by Moose Charlap, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, additional music by Jule Styne, additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green ( based on the play Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie )

** Bells Are Ringing – Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne.

Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Jule Styne.

** Do Re Mi – Book by Garson Kanin, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

** Funny Girl – Book by Isobel Lennart, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill.

-Book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green

** Sugar – Book by Peter Stone, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill

* 1954 – " Three Coins in the Fountain " ( music by Jule Styne ) introduced by Frank Sinatra in the film Three Coins in the Fountain.

* 1942 – " I've Heard That Song Before " ( music by Jule Styne ) from the film Youth on Parade.

* 1944 – " I'll Walk Alone " ( music by Jule Styne ) from the film Follow the Boys.

* 1945 – " Anywhere " ( music by Jule Styne ) from the film Tonight and Every Night.

* 1945 – " I Fall In Love Too Easily " ( music by Jule Styne ) introduced by Frank Sinatra in the film Anchors Aweigh.

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 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.

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 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.

* 1955 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song ( Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn )

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.

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.

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 songs by Styne and Robin are from the Broadway show, while the songs by Carmichael and Adamson were written especially for the film.

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.

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.

Bennett's career as a Broadway dancer began in the 1961 Betty Comden – Adolph Green – Jule Styne musical Subways Are For Sleeping, after which he appeared in Meredith Willson's Here's Love and the short-lived Bajour.

Original music for the park was written by Jule Styne, composer of many Broadway musicals, including Gypsy and Funny Girl.

Her agent Al Levy convinced her to attend a party at the home of composer Jule Styne.

Styne was born in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.

It would be the first of over 1, 500 published songs Styne would compose in his career.

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.

Thus, Jule Styne was hired.

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.

Comden and Green's Broadway work in the 1960s included four collaborations with Jule Styne.