Robert Wright (writer)

Robert " Bob" Craig Wright ( born September 25, 1914 in Daytona Beach, Florida; † July 27, 2005 in Miami) was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.

Life

Bob Wright, who already had the singer Helen Morgan and the dancer Sally Rand accompanied on the piano at a young age, attended high school, where he met the one year younger pianists Chet Forrest in Miami. In the following 70 years they wrote together more than 2,000 songs for Broadway and film productions, while specialized in the adaptation of works by classical composers such as Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Strauss and Rachmaninoff. In the 1930s, Wright and Forrest were taken as Songschreiberduo at MGM signed where they wrote among other things the songs for the film operetta Maytime ( Maytime, 1937). In 1939, she received her first of three Academy Award nominations for Best Song for Always and Always from the movie Mannequin.

On Broadway, Wright and Forrest were mainly for Kismet, a musical adaptation of Borodin's Prince Igor, known. Famous songs like Stranger in Paradise Kismet made ​​it a hit and bestowed the Duo 1954 Tony Award for Best Musical. 1955 Kismet was adapted by director Vincente Minnelli with the same title for the screen.

The partnership between Wright and Forrest ended with Forrest's death in 1999. Their last big hit was the musical Grand Hotel from 1989.

Filmography (selection)

  • Blow That Horn
  • Vive l' Opera
  • Saratoga
  • The Horse with the Dreamy Eyes
  • Always and Always
  • Amour Amour Eternal
  • Tanya
  • Ride, Cossack, Ride
  • Shadows on the Sand
  • Forevermore
  • High Flyin '
  • I've Got Music in My Heart
  • Hearts in the Sky
  • No Other Love
  • Punchinello
  • Oh What a Lovely Dream
  • It's a Blue World
  • Baubles, Bangles, and Beads
  • Stranger in Paradise
  • Bored
  • Rhymes Have I
  • Night Of My Nights
  • Not Since Nineveh
  • Sands Of Time
  • The Olive Tree
  • Fate
  • And This Is My Beloved
  • Gesticulate
  • Rahadlakum
  • It's the Same

Musicals (selection)

Awards

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