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Paul Francis Webster

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Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 – March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award. [1]

65 relations: A Certain Smile (song), A Very Precious Love, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Awards, An American Dream (film), Anastasia (1956 film), April Love (song), Arthur Murray, Augustów, Beverly Hills, California, Black Coffee (1948 song), Blowing Wild, Boy on a Dolphin, Cornell University, Culver City, California, Dance, Doctor Zhivago (film), Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, Duke Ellington, El Cid (film), Friendly Persuasion (song), Great American Songbook Foundation, Guns of Navarone (song), Half a House, Honey-Babe, Horace Mann School, I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good), I'll Walk with God, John Jacob Loeb, Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer, Jump for Joy (Peggy Lee album), Lara's Theme, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song), Lyricist, Lyrics, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Minstrel Man (1944 film), New York City, New York University, Paul Whiteman, Poland, Popular music, Rainbow on the River, Rio Bravo (film), Riverdale, Bronx, Sammy Cahn, Sammy Fain, Secret Love (Doris Day song), Shirley Temple, ..., Songwriters Hall of Fame, Spider-Man (theme song), Syracuse University, The Black Hills of Dakota (song), The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!), The Green Leaves of Summer, The Loveliest Night of the Year, The Sandpiper, The Shadow of Your Smile, The Stepmother (film), The Twelfth of Never, Too Beautiful to Last, United States, 20th Century Fox, 55 Days at Peking. Expand index (15 more) »

A Certain Smile (song)

"A Certain Smile" is a popular song.

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A Very Precious Love

"A Very Precious Love" is a popular song with music was written by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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An American Dream (film)

An American Dream (also known as See You in Hell, Darling) is a 1966 Technicolor drama film directed by Robert Gist, starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh.

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Anastasia (1956 film)

Anastasia is a 1956 American historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak.

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April Love (song)

"April Love" is a popular song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

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Arthur Murray

Arthur Murray (born Moses Teichman, April 4, 1895 – March 3, 1991) was an American ballroom dancer and businessman, whose name is most often associated with the dance studio chain that bears his name.

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Augustów

Augustów (Polish:; Augustavas), formerly known in English as Augustovo or Augustowo," is a city in north-eastern Poland with 30,802 inhabitants (2011).

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Black Coffee (1948 song)

"Black Coffee" is a song.

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Blowing Wild

Blowing Wild is a 1953 American drama film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck and Anthony Quinn.

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Boy on a Dolphin

Boy on a Dolphin is a 1957 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Culver City, California

Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Doctor Zhivago (film)

Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 British-Italian epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean.

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Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief

"Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" is a popular song published in 1945, with music by Hoagy Carmichael and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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El Cid (film)

El Cid is a 1961 epic historical drama film that romanticizes the life of the Christian Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called "El Cid" (from the Arabic as-sidi, meaning "The Lord"), who, in the 11th century, fought the North African Almoravides and ultimately contributed to the unification of Spain.

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Friendly Persuasion (song)

"Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" is a popular song with music by Dimitri Tiomkin and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

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Great American Songbook Foundation

The Great American Songbook Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the music of the Great American Songbook.

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Guns of Navarone (song)

"Guns Of Navarone" is a song and single by Jamaican group, The Skatalites.

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Half a House

Half a House is a 1976 comedy film directed by Brice Mack, produced by Lenke Romanszky and released theatrically in the U.S. by Rampart Releasing.

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Honey-Babe

"Honey-Babe" is a song written by Max Steiner and Paul Francis Webster and performed by Art Mooney and His Orchestra and featured in the 1955 film Battle Cry.

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Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School (also known as Horace Mann or HM) is an independent college preparatory school in the Bronx, founded in 1887.

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I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)

"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941.

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I'll Walk with God

"I'll Walk with God" is a popular song written for the motion picture The Student Prince with music by Nicholas Brodzsky and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1954.

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John Jacob Loeb

John Jacob Loeb (1910 – 2 March 1970) was an American composer.

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Johnny Mandel

John Alfred "Johnny" Mandel (born November 23, 1925) is a Grammy and Oscar-winning American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz.

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Johnny Mercer

John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer.

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Jump for Joy (Peggy Lee album)

Jump for Joy is a 1958 album by Peggy Lee, arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

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Lara's Theme

"Lara's Theme" is the name given to a leitmotif written for the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre.

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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song)

"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" is a popular song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

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Lyricist

A lyricist or lyrist is a person who writes lyrics—words for songs—as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's melody.

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Lyrics

Lyrics are words that make up a song usually consisting of verses and choruses.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Minstrel Man (1944 film)

Minstrel Man is a 1944 American film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Producers Releasing Corporation.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Paul Whiteman

Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Rainbow on the River

Rainbow on the River (also known as It Happened in New Orleans) is a 1936 American musical film directed by Kurt Neumann from a screenplay by Harry Chandlee, Earle Snell, and William Hurlbut, based upon the novel Toinette's Philip by C. V. Jamison.

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Rio Bravo (film)

Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond.

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Riverdale, Bronx

Riverdale is an affluent residential neighborhood in the northwest portion of the Bronx, a borough in New York City.

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Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician.

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Sammy Fain

Sammy Fain, (born Samuel E. Feinberg) (June 17, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American Jewish composer of popular music.

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Secret Love (Doris Day song)

"Secret Love" is a song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for Calamity Jane, a 1953 musical film in which it was introduced by Doris Day in the title role.

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Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple BlackWhile Temple occasionally used "Jane" as a middle name, her birth certificate reads "Shirley Temple".

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Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work represents and maintains the heritage and legacy of a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook.

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Spider-Man (theme song)

"Spider-Man" is the theme song of the 1967 cartoon show Spider-Man, composed by Paul Francis Webster and Robert "Bob" Harris.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse University (commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.

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The Black Hills of Dakota (song)

The Black Hills of Dakota is a song, written for the musical film Calamity Jane, about the singer's love for, and desire to return to, the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)

"The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)" is a song in the 1953 film Calamity Jane, written by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, and performed by Doris Day.

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The Green Leaves of Summer

"The Green Leaves of Summer" is a song by Paul Francis Webster, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin, written for the 1960 film The Alamo.

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The Loveliest Night of the Year

"The Loveliest Night of the Year" is a popular song.

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The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper is a 1965 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

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The Shadow of Your Smile

"The Shadow of Your Smile", also known as "Love Theme from The Sandpiper", is a popular song.

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The Stepmother (film)

The Stepmother is a 1972 suspense film directed and produced by Howard L. Avedis and released theatrically in the U.S. by Crown International Pictures.

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The Twelfth of Never

"The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song written in 1956 and first recorded by Johnny Mathis the following year.

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Too Beautiful to Last

"Too Beautiful to Last" is a song recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck, which was the theme from the 1971 historical biopic Nicholas and Alexandra.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historically based American epic film drama in Technirama and Technicolor, produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton (credited as second unit director), and Guy Green (uncredited).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Francis_Webster

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