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Harry Akst (1894–1963)
Music Department, Actor, Writer
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$80MM
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$6.4MM
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$31MM
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$25MM
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$2.8MM
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$13MM
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$6K
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$100MM
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$25MM
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$97MM
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$214MM
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$13K
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008)
(Video) - Music ("Am I Blue?") (uncredited) |
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$84MM
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$7.7MM
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$17MM
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$60MM
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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow - Underneath the Mission (2004)
(Video) - Writer ("Am I Blue?") (uncredited) |
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$70MM
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$207K
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$67MM
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$123MM
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$1.6MM
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$10MM
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$136K
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$34MM
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$175MM
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$60MM
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$17MM
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$57MM
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$102MM
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$25K
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$245K
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$245K
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$6.2MM
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$126K
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$126K
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$5MM
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$26K
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$464K
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$464K
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£23MM
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$149K
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$44MM
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$44MM
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$14MM
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$6.4MM
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$52MM
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$52MM
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$58MM
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$2.9MM
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$26MM
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$26MM
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$400K
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$39MM
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$39MM
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$7K
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$48K
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$48K
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$6MM
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$1.2MM
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$27K
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$31K
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$200K
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This Time for Keeps (1947)
Writer ("Why Don't They Let Me Sing a Love Song?" (uncredited), "Little Big Shot") |
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$1.9MM
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$12K
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$600K
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$950K
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$181K
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$4.2MM
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$4.7MM
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Shooting High (1940)
Music ("On the Rancho with My Pancho" (1940)) (uncredited), Writer (contributing writer) (uncredited) |
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$602K
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Rascals (1938)
Lyrics ("Carnival Song (What a Gay Occasion)"), Music ("Blue Is The Evening", "Take A Tip From A Gypsy", "Song Of A Gypsy Band") |
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Island in the Sky (1938)
Composer (stock music) (uncredited), Music ("Living on the Town") (uncredited) |
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$1MM
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She Had to Eat (1937)
Music And Lyrics By, Music ("Living on the Town", "When a Girl from Alabama Meets a Boy from Tennessee") (uncredited) |
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Sing and Be Happy (1937)
Music ("Pickles", "What a Beautiful Beginning", "Travelin' Light", "Sing and Be Happy") |
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The Holy Terror (1937)
Sailor in Music Hall Scene (uncredited), Music ("Don't Sing-Everybody Swing", "There I Go Again", "I Don't Know Myself Since I Know You", "The Call of the Siren") |
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Can This Be Dixie? (1936)
Music And Lyrics By, Music ("Pick Pick Pickaninny", "Uncle Tom's Cabin Is a Cabaret Now", "Does You Wanna Go To Heaven?", "It's Julep Time in Dixieland") |
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Star for a Night (1936)
Music ("Over a Cup of Coffee", "Down Around Malibu Way", "Holy Lie Production Routine #1", "At the Beach at Malibu (Hullabaloo at Malibu)") |
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The Music Goes 'Round (1936)
Writer ("Rolling Along", "This Is Love", "Let's Go", "Suzannah", "There'll Be No South") |
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After the Dance (1935)
Lyrics ("Tomorrow Night", "Without You I'm Just Drifting") (uncredited), Music ("Tomorrow Night", "Without You I'm Just Drifting") (uncredited) |
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$544K
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$617K
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Change of Heart (1934)
Lyrics ("So What?" (1934)) (uncredited), Music ("So What?" (1934)) (uncredited) |
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Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
Lyrics ("Stand Up And Cheer!" (1934)) (uncredited), Music ("Stand Up And Cheer!" (1934)) (uncredited) |
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$1MM
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MelodÃa prohibida (1933)
Music ("Pais ideal (The Islands Are Calling Me)", "Siempre (Till the End of Time)", "La melodÃa prohibida", "La canción del paria (Derelict Song)") |
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$187K
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Diplomaniacs (1933)
Music And Lyrics By, Music ("Ood-Gay Eye-bay" (1933), "Sing To Me" (1933), "On the Boulevard" (1933), "Sing to Me" (1933), "No More War" (1933)) (uncredited) |
$242K
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$169K
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$239K
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42nd Street (1933)
Jerry (uncredited), Performer ("You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (1932)) (uncredited) |
$439K
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$293K
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Palmy Days (1931)
Composer, Music By, Lyrics ("There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" (1931)) (uncredited), Music ("There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" (1931)) (uncredited) |
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$260K
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$153K
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Leathernecking (1930)
Lyrics ("All My Life", "Shake It Off and Smile"), Music ("Evening Star", "Careless Kisses"), Writer ("Mighty Nice and So Particular") |
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Golden Dawn (1930)
Music ("Africa Smiles No More" (1930), "Mooda's Song" (1930), "My Heart's Love Call" (1930), "In a Jungle Bungalow" (1930)) (uncredited) |
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The Song of the Flame (1930)
Soundtrack ("The Goose Hangs High", "Liberty Song", "Passing Fancy", "Petrograd", "One Little Drink") |
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Show of Shows (1929)
Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni, Performer ("Just an Hour of Love" (1929), "Your Love Is All I Crave") (uncredited) |
$850K
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Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
Music ("Wouldn't It Be Wonderful?", "I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues", "Samoa", "New Orleans", "In the Land of Jazz", "Start the Band") (uncredited) |
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So Long Letty (1929)
Music ("Am I Blue", "Let Me Have My Dreams", "Clowning", "My Beauty Shop", "My Strongest Weakness Is You", "One Sweet Little Yes") (uncredited) |
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On with the Show! (1929)
Words And Music, Music ("Welcome Home" (1929), "Let Me Have My Dreams" (1929), "Am I Blue?" (1929), "Lift the Juleps to Your Two Lips" (1929), "In the Land of Let's Pretend" (1929), "Don't It Mean a Thing to You?" (1929), "Birmingham Bertha" (1929), "Wedding Day" (1929)) (uncredited) |
$493K
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$600K
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$550K
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Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016)
(TV Movie) - Writer ("May I Sing to You" (from tt0045379)) (uncredited) |
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Robert Zemeckis on Smoking, Drinking and Drugging in the 20th Century: In Pursuit of Happiness (1999)
(TV Movie) - Writer ("Dinah") |
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American Masters (1989–1997)
(TV Series) - Music ("Am I Blue?") (1 episode, 1997), Music ("Dinah") (1 episode, 1989) |
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Life and Times (1997)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Baby Face") (1 episode, 1997), Writer ("Baby Face") (1 episode, 1997)
Whisky Man: Inside the Dynasty of Samuel Bronfman (Jan
15,
1997)
Season 9,
Episode 21
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Performer ("Baby Face"),
Writer ("Baby Face")
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Silvestrovský aperitiv aneb Hybs hraje hercum (1983)
(TV Special) - Music ("Véno, hrej (Baby Face)") |
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All in the Family (1975–1976)
(TV Series) - Writer ("Baby Face") (1 episode, 1976), Music ("Baby Face") (1 episode, 1975) |
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Bandstand (1962–1966)
(TV Series) - Music ("Dinah") (1 episode, 1966), Music ("Baby Face") (1 episode, 1962) |
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The Hollywood Palace (1964)
(TV Series) - Writer ("Ethel Waters Tribute "Am I Blue?") (1 episode, 1964)
Host: Nat King Cole with guests Diahann Carroll, Paul Winchell and Marty Allen (Mar
21,
1964)
Season 1,
Episode 12
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Writer ("Ethel Waters Tribute "Am I Blue?")
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1963)
(TV Series) - Music ("Baby Face") (1 episode, 1963)
Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth (Jan
9,
1963)
Season 4,
Episode 15
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Music ("Baby Face") (uncredited)
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Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1962)
(TV Series) - Music ("Baby Face") (1 episode, 1962)
Premiere Show - Art Carney, Frank Fontaine, Sue Ane Langdon, The Newton Brothers (featuring Wayne Newton) (Sep
29,
1962)
Season 1,
Episode 1
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Music ("Baby Face")
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Surfside 6 (1961–1962)
(TV Series) - Music ("Baby Face") (2 episodes, 1961), Music ("Am I Blue?") (1 episode, 1961) |
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Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957–1960)
(TV Series) - Music ("Dinah") (1 episode, 1960), Music ("Guilty") (1 episode, 1957)
Carol Lawrence, Genevieve, Don Adams, the Crosby Brothers (May
25,
1960)
Season 12,
Episode 32
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Music ("Dinah") (uncredited)
George Gobel, The Mills Brothers, Jeff Chandler, John Scott Trotter (Jan
19,
1957)
Season 9,
Episode 19
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Music ("Guilty") (uncredited)
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