Jule Styne
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Jule Styne (/ˈdʒuːli staɪn/; December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows.
Styne was born to a Jewish family in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein to immigrants from Ukraine, the Russian Empire who ran a small grocery. At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old.
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. It was the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne composed in his career. His first hit, "Sunday", was written in 1926. In 1929, Styne was playing with the Ben Pollack band.
Styne was a vocal coach for 20th Century Fox, until Darryl F. Zanuck fired him because vocal coaching was "a luxury, and we're cutting out those luxuries", and told him he should write songs, because "that's forever". 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. He and Cahn wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time", "Five Minutes More," and the Oscar-winning title song for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including "I've Heard That Song Before" (#1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), "I'll Walk Alone", "It's Magic" (a #2 hit for Doris Day in 1948), and "I Fall in Love Too Easily".
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, and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby!.
His collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Merrill.
Styne died of heart failure in New York City at the age of 88. His archive - including original hand-written compositions, letters, and production materials - is housed at the Harry Ransom Center.
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. Additionally, Styne won the 1955 Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for "Three Coins in the Fountain", and "Hallelujah, Baby!" won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Fotos
Películas (124)
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
2022 · Music, Lyricist
Jule Styne and His Many Lyricists: Distant Melody
2020 · Songs
Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
2020 · Songs
Funny Girl
2018 · Musical, Songs, Writer
Gypsy
2015 · Musical, Songs, Original Music Composer, Writer
Peter Pan
2000 · Songs, Original Music Composer
Gypsy
1994 · Music, Songs, Original Music Composer, Musical
Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company
1992 · Original Music Composer, Writer, Theatre Play
Sugar
1982 · Music
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
1981 · Songs
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Thanks
The Night the Animals Talked
1970 · Songs, Music
Funny Girl
1968 · Songs, Original Music Composer, Musical
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood
1965 · Music, Songs
What a Way to Go!
1964 · Songs
All the Way Home
1963 · Songs
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
1962 · Songs, Original Music Composer
Gypsy
1962 · Conductor (uncredited), Songs, Original Music Composer, Musical
Peter Pan
1960 · Songs, Original Music Composer
Bells Are Ringing
1960 · Original Music Composer
Paris in the Springtime
1956 · Songs
Peter Pan
1956 · Songs
My Sister Eileen
1955 · Songs
How to Be Very, Very Popular
1955 · Songs
The Seven Year Itch
1955 · Songs
Peter Pan
1955 · Original Music Composer, Songs
Living It Up
1954 · Songs, Music
Anything Goes
1954 · Producer
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953 · Songs, Theatre Play, Original Music Composer
Macao
1952 · Songs
Double Dynamite
1951 · Songs
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951 · Songs
Purple Heart Diary
1951 · Songs
Meet Me After the Show
1951 · Songs
The West Point Story
1950 · Songs
I'll Get By
1950 · Songs
It's a Great Feeling
1949 · Songs, Original Music Composer
Romance on the High Seas
1948 · Original Music Composer, Songs
The Miracle of the Bells
1948 · Songs
Glamour Girl
1948 · Songs
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947 · Songs
Ladies' Man
1947 · Songs
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946 · Songs
The Falcon's Alibi
1946 · Songs
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946 · Original Music Composer, Lyricist
Cinderella Jones
1946 · Songs, Original Music Composer
Tars and Spars
1946 · Original Music Composer
The Stork Club
1945 · Songs
Hollywood Victory Caravan
1945 · Songs
Behind City Lights
1945 · Songs
Anchors Aweigh
1945 · Songs
The All-Star Bond Rally
1945 · Songs
Tonight and Every Night
1945 · Songs
The Great Morgan
1945 · Songs
Carolina Blues
1944 · Songs
Janie
1944 · Songs
Step Lively
1944 · Songs
Silent Partner
1944 · Songs
Follow the Boys
1944 · Songs
Knickerbocker Holiday
1944 · Songs
Casanova in Burlesque
1944 · Songs
Pistol Packin' Mama
1943 · Songs
The Heat's On
1943 · Songs
Larceny with Music
1943 · Songs
Let's Face It
1943 · Songs
Thumbs Up
1943 · Songs
Henry Aldrich Swings It
1943 · Songs
Swing Your Partner
1943 · Songs
Shantytown
1943 · Songs
Hit Parade of 1943
1943 · Songs
Salute for Three
1943 · Songs
The Powers Girl
1943 · Songs
Johnny Doughboy
1942 · Songs
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942 · Songs
Ice Capades Revue
1942 · Songs
Youth on Parade
1942 · Songs
The Old Homestead
1942 · Songs
Call of the Canyon
1942 · Songs
Priorities on Parade
1942 · Songs
Sweater Girl
1942 · Songs
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942 · Songs
Heart of the Rio Grande
1942 · Songs
Sleepytime Gal
1942 · Songs
Cowboy Serenade
1942 · Songs
Lady for a Night
1942 · Songs
Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1941 · Songs
Sierra Sue
1941 · Songs, Lyricist
Gauchos of El Dorado
1941 · Songs
Down Mexico Way
1941 · Songs
Sailors on Leave
1941 · Songs
Doctors Don't Tell
1941 · Songs
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941 · Songs
Ice-Capades
1941 · Songs
Rags to Riches
1941 · Songs
Mountain Moonlight
1941 · Songs
Gangs of Sonora
1941 · Songs
Puddin' Head
1941 · Songs
Nevada City
1941 · Songs
Angels with Broken Wings
1941 · Songs
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Songs
The Singing Hill
1941 · Songs
Lady from Louisiana
1941 · Songs
Rookies on Parade
1941 · Songs
Sis Hopkins
1941 · Songs
In Old Cheyenne
1941 · Songs
Back in the Saddle
1941 · Songs
Ridin' on a Rainbow
1941 · Songs
Friendly Neighbors
1940 · Songs
Dancing on a Dime
1940 · Lyricist
Hit Parade of 1941
1940 · Songs
Melody and Moonlight
1940 · Songs
Barnyard Follies
1940 · Songs
Melody Ranch
1940 · Songs
Girl from Havana
1940 · Songs
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
1940 · Songs
Scatterbrain
1940 · Songs
The House Across the Bay
1940 · Songs
Slightly Honorable
1939 · Songs, Lyricist
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939 · Songs
Stop, Look and Love
1939 · Songs
Tail Spin
1939 · Vocal Coach
Hold That Co-ed
1938 · Songs
Kentucky Moonshine
1938 · Songs
A Man Betrayed
1936 · Songs
