Ben Oakland
Ben Oakland ( * September 24, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City; † August 26, 1979 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles ) was an American pianist and songwriter.
Life
Ben Oakland was already at the age of nine years, a piano concert at New York's Carnegie Hall. In the 1920s, he accompanied vaudeville artist Helen Morgan and George Jessel and worked increasingly as a songwriter. In the early 1930s, he wrote songs for Broadway productions, as well as for the Ziegfeld Follies. In Hollywood he worked from 1931 as a songwriter with Paramount Pictures. In 1937 he received a contract with Columbia Pictures, were where his songs especially for B- movies like Criminals of the Air (1937 ), but also for large-scale productions such as The Awful Truth ( The Awful Truth, 1937) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant used. Several times he wrote songs together with the songwriters Oscar Hammerstein, Bob Russell, Milton Drake, L. Wolfe Gilbert and with bandleader Artie Shaw. With Hammerstein Oakland in 1939 was nominated for Best Song for A Mist Is Over the Moon from the movie The Lady Objects for an Oscar in the category. The song If I Love Again, wrote the Oakland in 1933 with Jack Murray for the movie musical Hold Your Horses, found in 1975 in Funny Lady sung by Barbra Streisand again use.
Filmography (selection)
- Rumba Rita
- My Dreams Are Gone With the Wind
- The Greatest Attraction in the World
- Twelve O'Clock and All 's Not Well
- A Mist Is Over the Moon
- Home in Your Arms
- That Week in Paris
- When You're in the Room
- Gypsy Dance No.8
- If It 's You
- Java Jive
- You're Not So Easy to Forget
- If I Love Again