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Jule Styne

Komponist, Darsteller, Produzent

31. Dezember 1905 — 20. September 1994 (88 Jahre)
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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.

Filme & Serien auf plex.tv

  • Gypsy
    Gypsy1993
  • Der Held des Tages
    Der Held des Tages1946
  • Melody Ranch
    Melody Ranch1940
  • Back in the Saddle
    Back in the Saddle1941
  • Ridin' on a Rainbow
    Ridin' on a Rainbow1941
  • In Old Cheyenne
    In Old Cheyenne1941
  • Down Mexico Way
    Down Mexico Way1941
  • Heart of the Rio Grande
    Heart of the Rio Grande1942
  • Call of the Canyon
    Call of the Canyon1942
  • Kaviar gegen Weideland
    Kaviar gegen Weideland1941
  • Sierra Sue
    Sierra Sue1941
  • Cowboy Serenade
    Cowboy Serenade1942

Bekannt aus

  • Funny Girl
    Funny Girl1968
  • Urlaub in Hollywood
    Urlaub in Hollywood1945
  • Blondinen bevorzugt
    Blondinen bevorzugt1953
  • Zaubernächte in Rio
    Zaubernächte in Rio1948
  • Gypsy - Königin der Nacht
    Gypsy - Königin der Nacht1962
  • Judy erobert Hollywood
    Judy erobert Hollywood1949
  • Gypsy
    Gypsy1993
  • Music Box Girls
    Music Box Girls1945
  • Der Held des Tages
    Der Held des Tages1946
  • Funny Girl
    Funny Girl2018
  • Slightly Honorable
    Slightly Honorable1939
  • Gypsy: Live from the Savoy Theatre
    Gypsy: Live from the Savoy Theatre2015
  • The Colgate Comedy Hour
    The Colgate Comedy Hour6 Staffeln

Filmografie

1993
Gypsyauf plex.tv
1966
ABC Stage 67 · as Composer
1965
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood
1960
Bells Are Ringing · as Original Music Composer
1955
Peter Pan · as Original Music Composer
1954
Shower of Stars · as Composer
1948
Romance on the High Seas · as Original Music Composer
1946
The Kid from Brooklyn · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv
1946
Tars and Spars · as Original Music Composer

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