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Biography
Refimprove|date=July 2010 Bert Kalmar (February 10, 1884 - September 18, 1947) was a Jewish United States|American lyricist .
He was born in New York, New York . He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a Magician (illusion)|magician at a tent showCitation needed|date=July 2010, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business. He earned enough money as a vaudeville performer to start a music publishing company, Kalmar and Puck . He hired Harry Ruby as a song plugger, and as a result of a knee injury that stopped him from dancing professionally, turned to writing song lyrics full-time. Ruby, who had got a job at the firm of "'Waterson, Berlin and Snyder'," got Kalmar a job at the same firm writing song lyrics . Before World War I he had begun to write lyrics for a number of different composers. One of them, Ruby, who had also had a number of collaborators, saw a strong compatibility between the two, and by 1920 Kalmar and Ruby recognized that they should form a permanent songwriting team. Their partnership resulted in some of the most well-known songs featured in the Marx Brothers ' Broadway production of Animal Crackers (musical)|Animal Crackers (1928) as well as the Animal Crackers (film)|film of the same name . Kalmar and Ruby's songs were also featured in the Marx Brothers' films Horse Feathers (1932) and Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup (1933).
Kalmar's partnership with Harry Ruby is portrayed in the 1950 MGM musical Three Little Words (film)|Three Little Words starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton . He sometimes worked with other songwriters as well, including Oscar Hammerstein II and Ted Snyder .
Kalmar is also credited with writing some melodies, and wrote or co-wrote some Broadway theater play scripts, especially musical comedy .
Bert Kalmar worked in Tin Pan Alley , and wrote for film|movies and some early television.
He died in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California . On Kalmar's death, Ruby almost totally ceased writing songs, though he lived 27 more years.
Bert Kalmar is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame .
Personal life
Bert Kalmar was married to Jessie Brown, the marriage producing a son, Bert, Jr. and a daughter, Margaret. The couple were later divorced. http://www.nndb.com/people/428/000205810/
" Three Little Words (song)|Three Little Words " (1930): Their biggest hit.
" Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)|Nevertheless " (1931): A hit for both Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee , later done by The Mills Brothers and Frank Sinatra .
" I'm Against It (Groucho Marx song)|I'm Against It ," " I Always Get My Man ," and " Everyone Says I Love You ," "Horsefeathers," 1932
" Hail, Hail Fredonia ," "Duck Soup," 1933
" What A Perfect Combination " (1932): lyrics by Kalmar and IrvingCaesar , music by Ruby and Harry Akst , written for the Broadway theater|Broadway show The Kid, which starred Eddie Cantor .
" A Kiss to Build a Dream On " (1935): His last hit.
Work for Broadway
Note: All works are Musical theater|musicals unless otherwise noted.
Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 (1920) - revue - featured co-songwriter for "I'm a Vamp from East Broadway"
Helen of Troy, New York (1923) - co-composer and co-lyricist with Harry Ruby
Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 (1923) - revue - featured lyricist for "Society Bud"
No Other Girl (1924) - co-composer and co-lyricist with Harry Ruby
Holka Polka (1925) - book-editor
The Ramblers (1926) - co-composer, co-lyricist, and co-bookwriter with Harry Ruby
Lucky (1927) - co-writer with Otto Harbach , Harry Ruby and Jerome Kern
'' The Five O'Clock Girl (1927) - lyricist (music by Harry Ruby)
*Revived in 1981
''She's My Baby (1928) - co-bookwriter with Harry Ruby
Top Speed (1929) - co-writer and co- Theatrical producer|producer with Harry Ruby and Guy Bolton
High Kickers (1941) - co-composer, co-lyricist with Harry Ruby and co-bookwriter with Ruby and George Jessel (actor)|George Jessel
The Corn is Green (1943) - actor in the role of "Will Hughes"
Posthumously:
Fosse (1999) - revue - featured lyricist for "Who's Sorry Now? "
External links
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http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp? ID=4504 Bert Kalmar at the Internet Broadway Database
References
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