Frank Loesser in a 1936 Paramount studio headshot.
Background information
Birth name
Frank Henry Loesser
Born
(1910-06-29)June 29, 1910 Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Died
July 28, 1969(1969-07-28) (aged 59) East Harlem, New York, U.S.
Genres
Musical theatre
Occupation(s)
Composer, lyricist, librettist
Years active
1931–1968
Spouse(s)
Lynn Garland
(m. 1936; div. 1957)
Jo Sullivan
(m. 1959)
Website
frankloesser.com
Musical artist
Frank Henry Loesser (/ˈlɛsər/ "lesser"; June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won a Tony Award for Guys and Dolls and shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How to Succeed. He also wrote songs for over 60 Hollywood films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards for best song, winning once for "Baby, It's Cold Outside".
for "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Frank Henry Loesser was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Henry Loesser, a pianist, and Julia Ehrlich...
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by FrankLoesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown"...
The following is a sortable table of number of songs by Frank Sinatra: The column Song lists the song title. The column Year lists the year in which the...
The New York Times. p. 55. Riis, Thomas Laurence and Block, Geoffrey. FrankLoesser (2008), Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-11051-0, p.161 "Pulitzer Prize...
Loesser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Loesser (1894–1969), American classical pianist and writer FrankLoesser (1910–1969)...
Playbill, April 29, 2019 Jo Sullivan Loesser at the Internet Broadway Database Jo Sullivan Loesser at IMDb Jo Sullivan Loesser biography at FrankLoesser.com...
of You" (lyrics by Ned Washington), and "Heart and Soul" (lyrics by FrankLoesser). He also collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on "Lazybones" and...
That Jingle Jangle Jingle", is a song written by Joseph J. Lilley and FrankLoesser, and published in 1942. It was featured in that year's film The Forest...
returned to Broadway portraying Nathan Detroit in the 2009 revival of the FrankLoesser musical Guys and Dolls. Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada,...
"Luck Be a Lady" is a song written and composed by FrankLoesser in 1950 and first performed by Robert Alda. The song was featured in the musical Guys...
with Little Esther & The Robins "Adelaide's Lament" words and music: FrankLoesser "African Bolero" m. John Serry Sr. "American Beauty Rose" w.m. Hal David...
(music) and FrankLoesser (words), performed by Florence George "I Fall in Love with You Every Day" - by Manning Sherwin (music) and FrankLoesser (words)...
ISBN 9780416306613. Retrieved July 22, 2020. Casting himself as the sort of Frank Sinatra-style singer his mother had always adored, Ringo recorded Sentimental...
years before writing "Fugue for Tinhorns," Loesser was taken to a racetrack by Jule Styne, who said Loesser "was crazy about the racing form and the phrase...
"If I Were a Bell" is a song composed by FrankLoesser for his 1950 musical Guys and Dolls. In the show Guys and Dolls, it is sung by the character Sister...
Other musical versions include the song "The Ugly Duckling" composed by FrankLoesser and sung by Danny Kaye for the 1952 Charles Vidor musical film Hans...
begin until the 18th Academy Awards in 1946, in which performers included Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Dinah Shore, and Dick Haymes. In the early years...
in the Sky. "Introduction by Teruo Isono" - 1:10 "If I Were a Bell" (FrankLoesser) – 10:14 "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 12:45...
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