Josef Myrow (February 18, 1910 – December 24, 1987 in
Los Angeles, California
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)
was a Russian Empire-born
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Def ...
, known for his work in film scores in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was twice nominated for an
Academy Award
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: in 1947 for the song "You Do" from the film ''
Mother Wore Tights
''Mother Wore Tights'' is a 1947 Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang.
This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Mir ...
'' and in 1950 for "Wilhelmina" from the film ''
Wabash Avenue''.
Both songs were written with
Mack Gordon.
Other notable compositions include "Autumn Nocturne" (with
Kim Gannon
James Kimball "Kim" Gannon (November 18, 1900 – April 29, 1974) was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer.
Biography
Gannon was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish-American family from Fort Ann in upstate New ...
) and "
You Make Me Feel So Young" (again with Mack Gordon).
He also wrote, with Robert Mills, "C A P Is on the Go",
the official song of the
Civil Air Patrol
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, the United States Air Force Auxiliary.
He died from the effects of
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms beco ...
, In late 1987.
References
External links
*
Allmovie bio* LA Time
obituary(26 December 1987)
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1910 births
1987 deaths
People from Los Angeles
American composers
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States