Lew Pollack

Lew Pollack (born 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 was from New York, wrote Rag That's a Plenty in 1914 , which became a Dixieland standard. From the beginning of the 1920s he wrote numerous songs; Among his best-known songs are Charmaine (1926), Diane (both with Ernö Rapée ), Miss Annabelle Lee (with 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 u. a. also with Paul Francis Webster , Sidney Clare , Ned Washington, Alex Sullivan and Jack Yellen ("My Yiddishe Momme"). His songs were u. a. Played by Sophie Tucker , Arthur Fields , The Original Memphis Five , the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Fred Waring , Ted Weems and McKinney's Cotton Pickers .

His work for the film included the music for the films Vier Teufel and The Man Who Laughs (1928); with Sidney D. Mitchell he wrote the music for the revue film Thin Ice (1937). The song " Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams " , which he wrote with Charles Newman for the film Belita tanzt ( Lady, Let's Dance , 1944), received an Oscar nomination in 1945 for the best song category . He worked with Herb Magidson for the musical film Music in Manhattan (1944) .

Lew Pollack was elected to the American Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Web links

• Lew Pollack's entry into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame
• Lew Pollack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lew Pollack in the Victor Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Reid Films Famous, Fanciful, Frolicsome & Fantastic , 2006 - 104
2. ↑ Donald J. Stubblebine: Cinema sheet music: a comprehensive listing of published film music from "Squaw Man" (1914) to "Batman" (1989) , 1991 - page 309
3. ^ The 1945 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base