Jule Styne
Componist, Acteur, Producer
31 december 1905 — 20 september 1994 (88 years)
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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.
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.
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| 1993 | GypsyOp Plex |
| 1966 | ABC Stage 67 · as Composer |
| 1965 | |
| 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 ComposerOp Plex |
| 1946 | Tars and Spars · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love · as Self |
| 2013 | Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy · as Self |
| 1995 | The 67th Annual Academy Awards · as Self (memorial Tribute) |
| 1990 | The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts · as Self - Honoree |
| 1980 | The First 40 Years · as Self |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors · as Self |
| 1974 | Dinah! · as Self |
| 1973 | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder · as Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances · as Self - Host |
| 1968 | The 22nd Annual Tony Awards · as Self |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show · as Self |
| 1957 | The Jack Paar Tonight Show · as Self |
| 1955 | The Phil Silvers Show · as Jule Styne |
| 1955 | This is Your Life (UK) · as Self |
| 1955 | The 27th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee & Winner |
| 1953 | Person to Person · as Self |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour · as Self |
| 1948 | The Perry Como Show · as Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show · as Self |
| 1962 | Gypsy · as Conductor (uncredited) |
| 1965 | The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood · as Executive Producer |
| 1954 | Producers' Showcase · as Executive Producer |
| 1954 | |
| 1950 |
| 2018 | Funny Girl · as Songs |
| 2018 | Funny Girl · as Musical |
| 2015 | Gypsy: Live from the Savoy Theatre · as Songs |
| 2015 | Gypsy: Live from the Savoy Theatre · as Musical |
| 2014 | Peter Pan Live! · as Songs |
| 2000 | Peter Pan · as Songs |
| 1993 | Gypsy · as MusicalOp Plex |
| 1970 | The Night the Animals Talked · as Songs |
| 1968 | Funny Girl · as Songs |
| 1968 | Funny Girl · as Musical |
| 1965 | The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood · as Production Conceived By |
| 1964 | What a Way to Go! · as Songs |
| 1963 | All the Way Home · as Songs |
| 1962 | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol · as Songs |
| 1962 | Gypsy · as Songs |
| 1962 | Gypsy · as Musical |
| 1960 | Peter Pan · as Songs |
| 1955 | My Sister Eileen · as Songs |
| 1955 | How to Be Very, Very Popular · as Songs |
| 1955 | The Seven Year Itch · as Songs |
| 1954 | Shower of Stars · as Supervising Producer |
| 1954 | Living It Up · as Songs |
| 1953 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · as Songs |
| 1953 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · as Theatre Play |
| 1952 | Macao · as Songs |
| 1951 | Double Dynamite · as Songs |
| 1951 | Two Tickets to Broadway · as Songs |
| 1951 | Meet Me After the Show · as Songs |
| 1950 | The West Point Story · as Songs |
| 1950 | I'll Get By · as Songs |
| 1949 | It's a Great Feeling · as Songs |
| 1948 | The Miracle of the Bells · as Songs |
| 1947 | It Happened in Brooklyn · as Songs |
| 1947 | Ladies' Man · as Songs |
| 1946 | The Falcon's Alibi · as Songs |
| 1946 | The Kid from Brooklyn · as LyricistOp Plex |
| 1946 | Cinderella Jones · as Songs |
| 1946 | The Great Morgan · as Songs |
| 1945 | The Stork Club · as Songs |
| 1945 | Anchors Aweigh · as Songs |
| 1945 | Tonight and Every Night · as Songs |
| 1944 | Carolina Blues · as Songs |
| 1944 | Janie · as Songs |
| 1944 | Step Lively · as Songs |
| 1944 | Follow the Boys · as Songs |
| 1944 | Knickerbocker Holiday · as Songs |
| 1944 | Casanova in Burlesque · as Songs |
| 1943 | Pistol Packin' Mama · as Songs |
| 1943 | The Heat's On · as Songs |
| 1943 | Let's Face It · as Songs |
| 1943 | Thumbs Up · as Songs |
| 1943 | Henry Aldrich Swings It · as Songs |
| 1943 | Hit Parade of 1943 · as Songs |
| 1943 | The Powers Girl · as Songs |
| 1942 | Johnny Doughboy · as Songs |
| 1942 | Ridin' Down the Canyon · as Songs |
| 1942 | Beyond the Blue Horizon · as Songs |
| 1942 | Youth on Parade · as Songs |
| 1942 | Call of the Canyon · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1942 | Sweater Girl · as Songs |
| 1942 | Heart of the Rio Grande · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1942 | Sleepytime Gal · as Songs |
| 1942 | Cowboy Serenade · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1942 | Lady for a Night · as Songs |
| 1941 | Sierra Sue · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1941 | Sierra Sue · as LyricistOp Plex |
| 1941 | Down Mexico Way · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1941 | Doctors Don't Tell · as Songs |
| 1941 | Bad Man of Deadwood · as Songs |
| 1941 | Ice-Capades · as Songs |
| 1941 | Puddin' Head · as Songs |
| 1941 | Nevada City · as Songs |
| 1941 | Angels with Broken Wings · as Songs |
| 1941 | Sheriff of Tombstone · as Songs |
| 1941 | The Singing Hill · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1941 | Lady from Louisiana · as Songs |
| 1941 | Sis Hopkins · as Songs |
| 1941 | In Old Cheyenne · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1941 | Back in the Saddle · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1941 | Ridin' on a Rainbow · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1940 | Melody Ranch · as SongsOp Plex |
| 1940 | Hit Parade of 1941 · as Songs |
| 1940 | Barnyard Follies · as Songs |
| 1940 | Scatterbrain · as Songs |
| 1940 | The House Across the Bay · as Songs |
| 1939 | Slightly Honorable · as Songs |
| 1939 | Slightly Honorable · as Lyricist |
| 1939 | Pack Up Your Troubles · as Songs |
| 1939 | Tail Spin · as Vocal Coach |
| 1938 | Hold That Co-ed · as Songs |
| 1938 | Kentucky Moonshine · as Songs |
| 1936 | A Man Betrayed · as Songs |