Bert Kalmar
Bert Kalmar ( born February 10, 1884 in New York City; † September 18, 1947 in Los Angeles ) was an American songwriter for Broadway, film, and the Great American Songbook, who worked in particular with the composer Harry Ruby.
Kalmar left school early and worked as a magician in traveling shows, comedian and dancer in vaudeville. After a knee injury he turned to writing songs and formed to the music publishing Kalmar and Puck. From 1918 he worked closely with Harry Ruby. They wrote the music for 1928 Animal Crackers of the Marx Brothers ( both on stage and for the film ) and other Marx Brothers films ( Flowering nonsense ( Horse Feathers ) in 1932, with the songs I'm Against It, I Always Get My Man and Everyone Says I Love You) and the Marx Brothers at war ( Duck Soup, 1933), where he also co-wrote the screenplay and, among others, the song Hail, Hail Fredonia wrote. 1930 both moved to Hollywood.
They were known for songs such as Three Little Words (1930 ), Who's Sorry Now? (1923 ) and I Wanna Be Loved By You (1928 ), then a hit by Helen Kane (and, later interpreted by Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot ), Nevertheless ( I'm in Love with You ) (1931 ) and A Kiss to Build a Dream On (1935, with Oscar Hammerstein ). For A Kiss to Build a Dream On, which was used in the movie Deadly Paving Sunset Strip, Kalmar was nominated in 1952 along with Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein for an Oscar for Best Song. Other well-known songs are So Long, OO -Long, She's Mine, All Mine, Thinking of You, Up in the Clouds, Watching Clouds Roll By, My Sunny Tennessee, I Love You So Much, Everyone Say's I Love You and The Egg and Eye.
On Broadway, he wrote librettos for the Ziegfeld Follies revues show ( with I'ma Vamp from East Broadway for the show in 1920 ), The Five O'Clock Girl ( 1927), Top Speed ( 1929), The Ramblers (1926 ) Lucky (1927 ), Helen of Troy, New York ( 1923), She 's my baby (1928) and high Kickers ( 1941). In addition to Ruby, he also worked with Oscar Hammerstein II and other songwriters.
In 1950, he and Ruby were in the film Three Little Words with Fred Astaire (as Kalmar) and Red Skelton (as Ruby ) portrays.
In 1970 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.