Jule Styne
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- December 31, 1905
- Died
- September 20, 1994 (aged 88)
- Birthplace
- London, England
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jule Styne (/ˈdʒuːli staɪn/; December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows. Styne was born to a Jewish family in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein to immigrants from Ukraine, the Russian Empire who ran a small grocery. At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old. Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then, he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating. It was the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne composed in his career. His first hit, "Sunday", was written in 1926. In 1929, Styne was playing with the Ben Pollack band. Styne was a vocal coach for 20th Century Fox, until Darryl F. Zanuck fired him because vocal coaching was "a luxury, and we're cutting out those luxuries", and told him he should write songs, because "that's forever". Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn. He and Cahn wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time", "Five Minutes More," and the Oscar-winning title song for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including "I've Heard That Song Before" (#1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), "I'll Walk Alone", "It's Magic" (a #2 hit for Doris Day in 1948), and "I Fall in Love Too Easily". In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes, with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan (additional music), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar, and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby!. His collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Merrill. Styne died of heart failure in New York City at the age of 88. His archive - including original hand-written compositions, letters, and production materials - is housed at the Harry Ransom Center. Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was a recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990. Additionally, Styne won the 1955 Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for "Three Coins in the Fountain", and "Hallelujah, Baby!" won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Known For
Filmography
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
Movie · Music
Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
Movie · Songs
Jule Styne and His Many Lyricists: Distant Melody
Movie · Songs
Funny Girl
Movie · Songs
Gypsy
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Peter Pan
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Gypsy
Movie · Music, Songs, Original Music Composer
Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sugar
Movie · Music
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
Movie · Songs
The Night the Animals Talked
Movie · Songs, Music
Funny Girl
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood
Movie · Music, Songs
What a Way to Go!
Movie · Songs
All the Way Home
Movie · Songs
Gypsy
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Peter Pan
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Bells Are Ringing
Movie · Original Music Composer
Peter Pan
Movie · Songs
Paris in the Springtime
Movie · Songs
My Sister Eileen
Movie · Songs
How to Be Very, Very Popular
Movie · Songs
The Seven Year Itch
Movie · Songs
Peter Pan
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Living It Up
Movie · Songs, Music
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Macao
Movie · Songs
Two Tickets to Broadway
Movie · Songs
Double Dynamite
Movie · Songs
Meet Me After the Show
Movie · Songs
Purple Heart Diary
Movie · Songs
I'll Get By
Movie · Songs
The West Point Story
Movie · Songs
It's a Great Feeling
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Romance on the High Seas
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Glamour Girl
Movie · Songs
The Miracle of the Bells
Movie · Songs
It Happened in Brooklyn
Movie · Songs
Ladies' Man
Movie · Songs
Cinderella Jones
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
The Falcon's Alibi
Movie · Songs
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Movie · Songs
The Kid from Brooklyn
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tars and Spars
Movie · Original Music Composer
Anchors Aweigh
Movie · Songs
Tonight and Every Night
Movie · Songs
The All-Star Bond Rally
Movie · Songs
Behind City Lights
Movie · Songs
The Great Morgan
Movie · Songs
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Movie · Songs
The Stork Club
Movie · Songs
Knickerbocker Holiday
Movie · Songs
Follow the Boys
Movie · Songs
Step Lively
Movie · Songs
Carolina Blues
Movie · Songs
Casanova in Burlesque
Movie · Songs
Janie
Movie · Songs
Silent Partner
Movie · Songs
The Powers Girl
Movie · Songs
Salute for Three
Movie · Songs
Hit Parade of 1943
Movie · Songs
Swing Your Partner
Movie · Songs
Thumbs Up
Movie · Songs
Let's Face It
Movie · Songs
The Heat's On
Movie · Songs
Henry Aldrich Swings It
Movie · Songs
Larceny with Music
Movie · Songs
Pistol Packin' Mama
Movie · Songs
Shantytown
Movie · Songs
Sweater Girl
Movie · Songs
Priorities on Parade
Movie · Songs
Cowboy Serenade
Movie · Songs
Sleepytime Gal
Movie · Songs
The Old Homestead
Movie · Songs
Youth on Parade
Movie · Songs
Ice Capades Revue
Movie · Songs
Johnny Doughboy
Movie · Songs
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Movie · Songs
Call of the Canyon
Movie · Songs
Heart of the Rio Grande
Movie · Songs
Lady for a Night
Movie · Songs
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Movie · Songs
Ridin' on a Rainbow
Movie · Songs
Rookies on Parade
Movie · Songs
The Singing Hill
Movie · Songs
Angels with Broken Wings
Movie · Songs
Nevada City
Movie · Songs
Puddin' Head
Movie · Songs
Mountain Moonlight
Movie · Songs
Rags to Riches
Movie · Songs
Sailors on Leave
Movie · Songs
Ice-Capades
Movie · Songs
Back in the Saddle
Movie · Songs
Bad Man of Deadwood
Movie · Songs
Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
Movie · Songs
Doctors Don't Tell
Movie · Songs
Down Mexico Way
Movie · Songs
Gangs of Sonora
Movie · Songs
Gauchos of El Dorado
Movie · Songs
In Old Cheyenne
Movie · Songs
Lady from Louisiana
Movie · Songs
Sheriff of Tombstone
Movie · Songs
Sierra Sue
Movie · Songs
Sis Hopkins
Movie · Songs
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
Movie · Songs
Girl from Havana
Movie · Songs
Melody and Moonlight
Movie · Songs
Hit Parade of 1941
Movie · Songs
Melody Ranch
Movie · Songs
Barnyard Follies
Movie · Songs
Friendly Neighbors
Movie · Songs
The House Across the Bay
Movie · Songs
Scatterbrain
Movie · Songs
Pack Up Your Troubles
Movie · Songs
Slightly Honorable
Movie · Songs
Stop, Look and Love
Movie · Songs
Tail Spin
Movie · Vocal Coach
Hold That Co-ed
Movie · Songs
Kentucky Moonshine
Movie · Songs
A Man Betrayed
Movie · Songs