Harry Ruby
Harry Ruby ( born January 27, 1895 in New York City; † February 23, 1974 in Woodland Hills, California ) was an American screenwriter, composer and lyricist.
Life and work
Harry Ruby was after he was expelled from two high schools, worked at the beginning of his career, pianist, and finally in the music publishing by Gus Edwards. As a so-called " song plugger " he had to play to the customer at the Woolworth stores on the piano, the songs of the publisher. He then worked in vaudeville revues with Harry Cohn, the later founder of Columbia Pictures.
Then Ruby played piano for the formation Messenger Boys Trio; there he met Bert Kalmar know who worked there as a dancer. 1920, the pair wrote the hit " Where Do They Go When They Row, Row? ", Then " My Sunny Tennessee ", the Eddie Cantor made it a hit. For her Broadway songs they developed a special sense of humor, especially in songs like "The Sheik of Avenue B. " from the revue The Sheik of Araby. Soon after, he wrote I Wanna Be Loved by You, together with Herbert Stothart.
Successes they celebrated in Hollywood. The best known was the duo Ruby & Kalmar for his work on the Marx Brothers films such as Animal Crackers (1928) and The Marx Brothers in War ( 1933). In 1930 she wrote her best known title, "Three Little Words ," which became a jazz standard. 1947 died Bert Kalmar. In his honor, in 1950 the film was shot three little words; Fred Astaire played the role of Kalmar, Red Skelton Harry Ruby, who was involved the also in a small supporting role. Shortly after the film, Ruby retired from the film business. Besides, he was still in two films as an actor with - 1951 in Angels in the Outfield and 1957 in The Story of Mankind as Indians.