Larry Morey

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Lawrence L. "Larry" Morey (born March 26, 1905 in Los Angeles , † May 8, 1971 in Santa Barbara County ) was an American author. He is best known for his lyrics for now classic Disney cartoons . He was nominated twice for an Oscar as a songwriter .

Larry Morey started working for Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures after graduating from university . A first important work he delivered as a songwriter for by Leigh Harline composed film song The World Owes Me a Living , the Shirley Temple in 1934 in the film Meeting point: Paris! sang. The song was also used in the Disney animated film The Grasshopper and the Ants that same year . In 1933 he went to Disney , where he first wrote song texts for short films for the Silly Symphonies . He often worked with the composer Frank Churchill . Together they also wrote the 25 songs for Disney's first full-length animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . These included Heigh-Ho , Some Day My Prince Will Come , Whistle While You Work and I'm Wishing songs that are now considered classics. Morey also acted as the director of a partial sequence of the film. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was nominated for an Oscar for best music, but this did not include Morey's achievements. However, he was with William Cottrell , Wilfred Jackson , Perce Pearce , and Ben Sharpsteen to five people for the film at the International Film Festival of Venice in 1938 was nominated for the Mussolini Award for the best foreign movie but Leni Riefenstahl for her two-piece Olympic film won.

In 1938 Morey wrote the title song with the composer Albert Hay Malotte for the short film Ferdinand, the Bull , which won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1939 . In 1942, with Perce Pearce, he adapted Felix Salten's book Bambi for the screenplay for the film of the same name . To lighten the mood of the book, they both invented the characters Thumper , the wild rabbit and Blume , the skunk. He also wrote the songs with Frank Churchill, including Little April Shower , Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song and Looking for Romance (I Bring You a Song) . Both were nominated for the Oscar for Best Movie Song in 1943 for Love Is a Song , but were subject to Irving Berlin's White Christmas from Music, Music . For Lavender Blue , written with composer Eliot Daniel for the film A Champion to Fall in Love with , sung by Burl Ives , Morey was nominated again for an Oscar in 1950 , but this time lost to Frank Loesser's baby, It's Cold Outside from Neptune's daughter . It was an adaptation of a popular folk song.

Morey has been involved in a good 20 films, including many short films. In a few songs he is also listed as a composer. In 1945 and 1946 he was responsible as a producer for half a dozen short films. His songs are used again and again today, from the 1950s also for television productions. Many of his texted songs have become well-known cultural assets , especially in the USA , and have a great recognition factor. Since 1938 he has been a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers . At the 1977 Grammy Awards , he was posthumously nominated with Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for the Grammy Awards for best recording for children, but was defeated by Hermione Gingold and Karl Böhm as conductors of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra who played Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and the Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns . Someday My Prince Will Come is now considered the jazz standard.

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SURNAME Morey, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morey, Lawrence L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1971
Place of death Santa Barbara County