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Harry Rubenstein (January 27, 1895 – February 23, 1974), known professionally as Harry Ruby, was an American pianist, composer, songwriter and screenwriter, [2] who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. [3] He was married to silent film actress Eileen Percy.
Kalmar and Ruby refers to the famous songwriting team of the first half of the 20th century of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.
Harry Ruby. Music Department: Duck Soup. As 'Harry Ruby', Harry Rubenstein was a 'song plugger' for Gus Edwards and for George Gershwin at Jerome H. Remick's, the Detroit music publishing firm.
Harry Ruby, one half of the famed Kalmar & Ruby songwriting team, was born in New York City on January 27, 1895. Growing up in New York, he attended public schools and in his early career worked as a pianist and song plugger for the Gus Edwards and Harry Von Tilzer publishing firms (one of his co-workers at Edwards' place was the young Walter ...
Composer, Lyricist, Writer, Pianist. (1895 - 1974) Harry Ruby worked as a pianist around New York and in vaudeville. He was also a song plugger for music publishers and collaborated with several songwriters before he and Bert Kalmar formed their famous songwriting partnership in 1920.
Feb 25, 1974 · LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24—Harry Ruby, popular‐song composer and writer of Broadway stage scores and movie scenarios, died last night in the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.
A fictionalised biopic of Kalmar & Ruby, Three Little Words (1950) (in which Ruby was played by Red Skelton), was released by MGM three years after Kalmar's death. Ruby lived on until 1974, but managed just one hit song on his own, the 1949 chart topper "Maybe It's Because".
Harry Ruby (January 27, 1895 – February 23, 1974) was a Jewish American composer and screenwriter, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. He was married to actress Eileen Percy.
Harry Ruby. Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby’s collaboration spanned from the 1920s to 1940s, and took them from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway and eventually to Hollywood. Born in New York in 1884, Kalmar performed as a magician in tent shows and in vaudeville before founding a music publishing company.
Harry Ruby. Composer Harry Ruby enjoyed a long career songwriting for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, almost always in collaboration with lyricist Bert Kalmar. Born in N.Y.C. in 1895, he got his start working as…. Read Full Biography.
