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- Five hundred first families of America
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- A Very Honorable Guy — Al1934
- 42nd Street — Stout Songwriter (uncredited)1933
- An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee — Self1930
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Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Jewish-American Swiss-born lyricist. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland and died in New York City. Dubin was responsible for lyrics to several Broadway shows. In 1970 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is perhaps most famous for the 1933 musical film 42nd Street to the music of Harry Warren. Other famous movies included Footlight Parade and all five Gold Diggers films. Together, Warren and Dubin wrote 60 hit songs for Warner
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Zurich
- Place of death
- New York City
- Spouse
- Helen McCloy
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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- name in native language
- Al Dubin
- birth name
- Alexander Dubin
- partner in business or sport
- Harry Warren
- date of birth
- 1891-06-10
- date of death
- 1945-02-11
- place of burial
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- ethnic group
- Russian Jews
- writing language
- English language
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- start of work period
- 1909-00-00
- P8168
- apostolic prefecture
- Commons category
- Al Dubin
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
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