Lew Pollack

Lew Pollack ( * June 16, 1895; † January 18, 1946 in Los Angeles ) was a song composer and songwriter who was active in the 1920s and 1930s.

Pollack, who came from New York, wrote in 1914 the Rag That's a Plenty, which became a Dixieland standard. From the early 1920s he wrote numerous songs; among his best-known songs Charmaine (1926 ), Diane (both with Erno Rapée ), Miss Annabelle Lee ( Sidney Clare ), Two Cigarettes in the Dark, At the Codfish Ball ( from the Shirley Temple film Captain January 1936), Reap the Wild Wind ( with Ned Washington) and Go In and Out the Window. He worked among others with Paul Francis Webster, Sidney Clare, Ned Washington, Alex Sullivan and Jack Yellen ("My Yiddishe Momme "). His songs were, inter alia, by Sophie Tucker, Arthur Fields, The Original Memphis Five, played the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Fred Waring, Ted Weems and the McKinney 's Cotton Pickers.

His work for the film included the music for the films Four Devil and The Man Who Laughs (1928 ); Sidney D. Mitchell, he wrote the music for the film Thin Ice Revue (1937 ). The song " Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams ," which he had written with Charles Newman for the film Lady, Let's Dance, received a 1945 Oscar nomination for Best Song. Lew Pollack was elected in 1970 in the American Songwriters Hall of Fame.