Sidney D. Mitchell
Sidney D. Mitchell ( born June 15, 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland, † February 25, 1942 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American lyricist and composer of film music, which was nominated twice for an Oscar for best song.
Life
Mitchell began his career as a songwriter and film composer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1929 with films like A Song of Kentucky, Words and Music, and especially Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, for which he the songs " Walking With Susie ", " Why Can not I Be Like You? "," Legs "," Breakaway "," That's You Baby, "" look What You've Done To Me ", " Big City Blues "," Pearl of Old Japan " texted.
At the Academy Awards in 1937 Mitchell was nominated together with lyricist and composer Louis age for an Oscar for best song, and indeed for " A Melody from the Sky " from the movie drama battle in the mountains ( The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, 1936) by Henry Hathaway with Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda in the lead roles.
Mitchell's songs such as "Sugar That Sugar Baby o ' Mine" from 1926, the jazz composition "Sugar" from 1927 or 1936 created "All My Life" could be heard in numerous incurred after his death films, such as for example, in Stardust Memories ( 1980), gorillas in the Mist ( gorillas in the Mist: the Story of Dian Fossey, 1988), Everyone Says I Love You ( original Title: Everyone Says I Love You, 1996) or even Capote (2005).