Lew Pollack
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Lew Pollack (16 June 1895 – 18 January 1946) was a song composer active during the 1920s and the 1930s. Pollack was born in New York. Among his best known songs are "Charmaine" and "Diane" with Ernö Rapée, "Miss Annabelle Lee", "Two Cigarettes in the Dark", "At the Codfish Ball" (from the Shirley Temple movie "Captain January" with Buddy Edsen), and Go In and Out The Window, now a children's music standard. He also collaborated with Paul Francis Webster, Sidney Clare, Ned Washington and Jack Yel
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- Commons category
- Lew Pollack
- date of birth
- 1895-06-16
- date of death
- 1946-01-18
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Lew Pollack, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
