Jimmy Mchugh

Composer, Songwriter

About

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Also Known As

James Mchugh

Birth Place

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Born

July 10, 1894

Died

May 23, 1969

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Jimmy McHugh produced music that was featured in many Hollywood productions. McHugh began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the Robert Montgomery adaptation "Love in the Rough" (1930) and "Meet the Baron" (1933). He followed this honor with songs in "Banjo on My Knee" (1936). He was nominated for an Academy Award for "Roberta" in 1935. . McHugh was nominat...

Filmography

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The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Ford v. Ferrari (2019)

The Mule (2018)

The Widow (2018)

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

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Seven Days' Leave (1942) -- (Movie Clip) A Touch Of Texas

Seven Days' Leave (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Get Out Of This Mood

Biography

Jimmy McHugh produced music that was featured in many Hollywood productions. McHugh began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the Robert Montgomery adaptation "Love in the Rough" (1930) and "Meet the Baron" (1933). He followed this honor with songs in "Banjo on My Knee" (1936). He was nominated for an Academy Award for "Roberta" in 1935. . McHugh was nominated for a Music (Song) Academy Award for "That Certain Age" in 1938 as well as for a Music (Song) Academy Award for "You'll Find Out" in 1940. McHugh was also credited in "Micki & Maude" (1984), "The Cotton Club" with Richard Gere (1984) and "Miss Mary" with Julie Christie (1986). He also was recognized in "Vamp" (1986) starring Chris Makepeace. McHugh's music was most recently featured in the Bradley Cooper dramatic adaptation "Serena" (2015). McHugh passed away in May 1969 at the age of 75.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Music (Feature Film)

Ford v. Ferrari (2019)

The Mule (2018)

The Widow (2018)

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Elsa and Fred (2014)

Rob the Mob (2014)

Jersey Boys (2014)

Labor Day (2013)

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Love Ranch (2010)

Step Up 3-D (2010)

Valentine's Day (2010)

Funny People (2009)

Me and Orson Welles (2009)

Is Anybody There? (2009)

This Christmas (2007)

Married Life (2007)

Hollywoodland (2006)

Inland Empire (2006)

Guess Who (2005)

The Aviator (2004)

American Splendor (2003)

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Kevin and Perry Go Large (2003)

Anything Else (2003)

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Bojangles (2001)

What Women Want (2000)

Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

The Love Letter (1999)

Angela's Ashes (1999)

The Green Mile (1999)

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)

L' Ennui (1998)

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Dance With Me (1998)

Song ("Let'S Get Lost")

Songs ("I'M In The Mood For Love" "You'Re My Dish")

One Night Stand (1997)

Butcher Boy (1997)

Song ("Where Are You")

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

That's Entertainment! III (1994)

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

A Bronx Tale (1993)

Arthur Miller's American Clock (1993)

A League of Their Own (1992)

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)

The Babe (1992)

The Mambo Kings (1992)

Another You (1991)

The Marrying Man (1991)

The Fred Astaire Songbook (1991)

JFK (Director's Cut) (1991)

Billy Bathgate (1991)

Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989)

Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

Another Woman (1988)

Radio Days (1987)

Miss Mary (1986)

Song ("I Can'T Give You Anything But Love, Baby")

Micki & Maude (1984)

Song ("On The Sunny Side Of The Street")

The Cotton Club (1984)

Love Streams (1984)

Song ("Where Are You?")

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

Eating Raoul (1982)

Song ("Exactly Like You")

Rich and Famous (1981)

House Calls (1978)

Song ("On The Sunny Side Of The Street")

Valentino (1977)

Nightmare Honeymoon (1972)

The Grissom Gang (1971)

Looking for Love (1964)

I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)

Belle Sommers (1962)

Twist All Night (1961)

Jack the Ripper (1960)

Music Composition

Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

The Gene Krupa Story (1960)

A Private's Affair (1959)

That Kind of Woman (1959)

Ask Any Girl (1959)

Home Before Dark (1958)

The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Satchmo the Great (1957)

Short Cut to Hell (1957)

Never Say Goodbye (1956)

So This Is Paris (1955)

Bring Your Smile Along (1955)

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

A Star Is Born (1954)

About Mrs. Leslie (1954)

The Stooge (1953)

Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)

Meet Danny Wilson (1952)

Lovely To Look At (1952)

That's My Boy (1951)

Sunny Side of the Street (1951)

His Kind of Woman (1951)

The Racket (1951)

The Strip (1951)

Rhythm Inn (1951)

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

Make Believe Ballroom (1949)

Big City (1948)

A Date with Judy (1948)

The Saxon Charm (1948)

If You Knew Susie (1948)

Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947)

Till the Clouds Roll By (1947)

Calendar Girl (1947)

Smash Up--The Story of a Woman (1947)

Beat the Band (1947)

Hit Parade of 1947 (1947)

The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)

Swing Parade of 1946 (1946)

People Are Funny (1946)

Ding Dong Williams (1946)

Criminal Court (1946)

The Secret Heart (1946)

Freddie Steps Out (1946)

Somewhere in the Night (1946)

Do You Love Me (1946)

On Stage Everybody (1945)

Doll Face (1945)

Nob Hill (1945)

Radio Stars on Parade (1945)

Vacation from Marriage (1945)

Between Two Women (1945)

Bring on the Girls (1945)

Her Lucky Night (1945)

Winged Victory (1944)

Hi, Beautiful (1944)

Follow the Boys (1944)

Take It or Leave It (1944)

Jam Session (1944)

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

Around the World (1944)

The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

Something for the Boys (1944)

Timber Queen (1944)

Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)

In the Meantime, Darling (1944)

Moon Over Las Vegas (1944)

Hers to Hold (1943)

Stormy Weather (1943)

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943)

Happy Go Lucky (1943)

Is Everybody Happy? (1943)

Always a Bridesmaid (1943)

Nobody's Darling (1943)

Higher and Higher (1943)

Strictly in the Groove (1942)

Mississippi Gambler (1942)

True to the Army (1942)

Seven Days' Leave (1942)

A Shot in the Dark (1941)

Road Agent (1941)

You're the One (1941)

Stick to Your Guns (1941)

Dance Hall (1941)

I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby (1940)

Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)

You'll Find Out (1940)

The Devil's Party (1938)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Reckless Living (1938)

Mad About Music (1938)

That Certain Age (1938)

Youth Takes a Fling (1938)

The Road to Reno (1938)

Top of the Town (1937)

Breezing Home (1937)

Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)

When Love Is Young (1937)

You're a Sweetheart (1937)

Behind the Mike (1937)

Hitting a New High (1937)

Let's Sing Again (1936)

Banjo on My Knee (1936)

Wife Vs. Secretary (1936)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Her Master's Voice (1936)

Palm Springs (1936)

Hooray for Love (1935)

The Nitwits (1935)

Every Night at Eight (1935)

Dancing Lady (1933)

Meet the Baron (1933)

Men Call It Love (1931)

Flying High (1931)

The Cuban Love Song (1931)

Love in the Rough (1930)

The Cock-Eyed World (1929)

The Time, the Place, and the Girl (1929)

Music (Special)

Yours For a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (1999)

Michael Feinstein & Friends (1991)

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1989)

Life Events

Videos

Seven Days' Leave (1942) -- (Movie Clip) A Touch Of Texas G-I Johnny (Victor Mature), about to inherit big money on the condition that he marry a daughter of the Havelock-Allen family, with buddies Speak and Bitsy (Peter Lind Hayes, Arnold Stang) and lawyer Gildersleeve (Harold Peary) meets singing Mickey (Marcy McGuire, rehearsing a Jimmy McHugh/Frank Loesser tune with Freddy Martin’s group) and dishy Terry (Lucille Ball), in RKO’s Seven Days’ Leave, 1942.

Seven Days' Leave (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Get Out Of This Mood Following complex machinations, G-I Johnny (Victor Mature) is about to confess to heiress Terry (Lucille Ball) that his romancing is motivated partly by a big inheritance, not realizing she’s way ahead of him, we cut to Ginny Simms with the Freddy Martin Orchestra, and another Jimmy McHugh/Frank Loesser tune, in RKO’s Seven Days’ Leave, 1942.

Seven Days' Leave (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Speak My Language With Les Brown’s band playing at a G-I sendoff, the three ex-member buddies (Peter Lind Hayes as “Speak,” singer Buddy Clark as himself and Victor Mature as trumpeter Johnny) are asked to join, along with Vic/Johnny’s gal, Mapy Cortes, leading in a Jimmy McHugh/Frank Loesser original, in RKO’s Seven Days’ Leave, 1942, choreography by Chuck Walters.

Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Music In My Heart If Betty Grable looks like she’s 18 it’s because she was, in one of her earliest credited features, as Mary, secretary to the boss upstairs at the music publishing company, who needs a murder song, so she can’t wait to tell her songwriting beau Johnnie (Bert Wheeler) down at the cigar shop, launching into a Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields original, in the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy The Nitwits, 1935.

His Kind Of Woman (1951) -- (Movie Clip) I Might Forget What I'm Doing Ebullient after the screening of one of his pictures at a Mexican resort, philandering actor Cardigan (Vincent Price) visits his paramour Lenore (Jane Russell) and fugitive gambler Dan (Robert Mitchum), then she confirms that musician Harry (Stacy Harris) really does know her from a previous life, into her song by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, in His Kind Of Woman, 1951.

Princess And The Pirate, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Kiss Me In The Moonlight Actor Sylvester (Bob Hope, on to Samuel Goldwyn from Paramount) still doesn’t believe Margaret (Virginia Mayo) is really a princess but sure needs her to rescue his act before a rowdy pirate crowd, with a song by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, vocal by Louanne Hogan, her outfit by Mary Grant, the future Mrs. Vincent Price, in The Princess And The Pirate, 1944.

Easy To Love (1953) -- (Movie Clip) -- Look Out! I'm Romantic Esther Williams as Florida water-skiing star Julie in New York with boss and not-boyfriend (Van Johnson as Ray), catching singer Barry (Tony Martin), with whom she’s making a commercial, with Carroll Baker’s whole performance as a jealous girlfriend, and an original tune by Vic Mizzy and Mann Curtis, in MGM’s Easy To Love, 1953.

Four Jills In A Jeep (1943) -- (Movie Clip) How Blue The Night Joining a number from Dick Haymes, playing a soldier, song an original by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, Mitzi Mayfair as herself on the USO Tour in Europe, also Dick’s love interest, in 20th Century-Fox’s Four Jills In A Jeep, also starring Carole Landis, Martha Raye and Kay Francis.

Four Jills In A Jeep (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Betty Grable Could be some Betty Grable fans were disappointed with this reserved appearance, introduced in a USO-Radio show, Kay Francis acting as M-C, Jimmy Dorsey’s band, song by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, early in 20th Century-Fox’s Four Jills In A Jeep, 1943, also starring Carole Landis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair.

Higher And Higher (1943) -- (Movie Clip) My Name's Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra opens in his first starring role, as a guy named Sinatra, the crooning affluent neighbor renewing acquaintance with Michele Morgan, a maid who’s masquerading as a debutante, greeted by Marcy McGuire, piano by Dooley Wilson, song by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, in Higher And Higher,1943.

Higher and Higher (1943) -- (Movie Clip) I Saw You First Playing himself in the musical Higher and Higher, 1943, Frank Sinatra joins Marcy McGuire in a punchy performance of “I Saw You First,” by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson.

Smash Up -- The Story Of A Woman (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Miss That Feeling High melodrama from producer Walter Wanger, his academy award-nominated star Susan Hayward in critical condition at the opening, recalling her way to a song by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, from Smash Up -- The Story Of A Woman, 1947.

Family

Lee Newman

Grandson

Singer.

Bibliography

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