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Wolfe Gilbert
Louis Wolfe Gilbert (August 31, 1886 – July 12, 1970) was a Russian Empire–born American songwriter of Tin Pan Alley. He is best remembered as the lyricist for " Ramona" (1928), the first movie theme song ever written. Biography Born in Odessa, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire, Gilbert moved to the United States as a young man. Gilbert began his career touring with John L. Sullivan and singing in a quartet at small Coney Island café called College Inn, where he was discovered by English producer Albert Decourville. Decourville brought him to London as part of The Ragtime Octet. Gilbert's first songwriting success came in 1912, when F. A. Mills Music Publishers published his song " Waiting For the Robert E. Lee" (melody by composer Lewis F. Muir). Gilbert later wrote both the words and music to "Down Yonder", a sequel to "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee". "Down Yonder" has become something of a standard as an instrumental, though the lyrics are rarely perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Gilbert
Doris Gilbert (1914-1993) was an American screenwriter and TV writer known for her work on B movies of the 1940s and 1950s at Republic Pictures. Biography Doris was the daughter of famed Russia-born composer L. Wolfe Gilbert and his wife, Catherine Oestreicher. The family moved from New York to Los Angeles when Doris was a girl, and she got into screenwriting at a young age thanks to her father's involvement writing songs for movies at Fox. When she was still a teenager, she married lawyer Allen Feit, who she had met in NYC a year earlier. She continued to write under her maiden name. During the 1940s, she began working at Republic, where she wrote films like ''Storm Over Lisbon'' and ''Lake Placid Serenade''. During the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote scripts for over a dozen television shows, including ''Science Fiction Theatre'' and '' Adventures of Superman''. In 1941–42, Doris Gilbert collaborated with Sally Benson on a radio version of the latter's Junior Miss short storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
