Lew Pollack - Turner Classic Movies

Biography

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Lew Pollack boasts musical talents that have been featured in a variety of Hollywood productions. Pollack began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the Janet Gaynor dramatic adaptation "Seventh Heaven" (1927), "Blue Skies" (1929) and the musical "King of Burlesque" (1935) with Warner Baxter. His music also appeared in "Captain January" (1936), the Sonja Hen...

Filmography

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The Yanks Are Coming (1942)

Man of Courage (1943)

The Yanks Are Coming (1942)

The Rum Diary (2011)

It's Complicated (2009)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

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Heidi (1937) -- (Movie Clip) In Our Little Wooden Shoes

Straight Place And Show (1938) -- (Movie Clip) With You On My Mind

Biography

Lew Pollack boasts musical talents that have been featured in a variety of Hollywood productions. Pollack began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the Janet Gaynor dramatic adaptation "Seventh Heaven" (1927), "Blue Skies" (1929) and the musical "King of Burlesque" (1935) with Warner Baxter. His music also appeared in "Captain January" (1936), the Sonja Henie musical comedy "One in a Million" (1936) and the The Ritz Brothers musical comedy "Kentucky Moonshine" (1938). In the thirties and the nineties, Pollack's music continued to appear on the silver screen, including in films like the The Ritz Brothers comedy adaptation "Straight, Place, and Show" (1938), "Jitterbugs" (1943) and "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955) with Jane Russell. His work was also in the animated picture "Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown" (1977) with Fred Van Amburg, the romance "Just a Gigolo" (1978) with David Bowie and the Matthew McConaughey action flick "The Newton Boys" (1998). Pollack's music was most recently used in the biographical drama "Jimmy's Hall" (2015) with Barry Ward. Pollack passed away in January 1946 at the age of 51.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Yanks Are Coming (1942)

Writer (Feature Film)

Man of Courage (1943)

The Yanks Are Coming (1942)

Music (Feature Film)

The Rum Diary (2011)

It's Complicated (2009)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Matchstick Men (2003)

The Green Mile (1999)

The Newton Boys (1998)

Just a Gigolo (1978)

Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)

Song ("Charmaine")

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

The Half-Breed (1952)

What Price Glory (1952)

The Strip (1951)

Border Treasure (1950)

Make Mine Laughs (1949)

Rustlers (1949)

Western Heritage (1948)

Code of the West (1947)

The Bamboo Blonde (1946)

Sunset Pass (1946)

Take It or Leave It (1944)

Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)

Girl Rush (1944)

Music in Manhattan (1944)

Seven Days Ashore (1944)

Lady, Let's Dance! (1944)

Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)

Hi, Buddy (1943)

What's Buzzin' Cousin? (1943)

Pistol Packin' Mama (1943)

Tahiti Honey (1943)

Man of Courage (1943)

Jitterbugs (1943)

American Empire (1942)

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen (1942)

The Yanks Are Coming (1942)

South of Pago Pago (1940)

Frontier Marshal (1939)

Three Blind Mice (1938)

Straight Place and Show (1938)

Kentucky Moonshine (1938)

In Old Chicago (1938)

Hold That Co-Ed (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Love and Hisses (1937)

Life Begins in College (1937)

One in a Million (1937)

Thin Ice (1937)

Seventh Heaven (1937)

Love Is News (1937)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

Captain January (1936)

Pigskin Parade (1936)

Under Two Flags (1936)

Song and Dance Man (1936)

Everybody's Old Man (1936)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Star for a Night (1936)

Our Little Girl (1935)

Dressed to Thrill (1935)

Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

Children of the Ritz (1929)

Blue Skies (1929)

Four Devils (1929)

The Red Dance (1928)

Four Sons (1928)

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

What Price Glory (1927)

Life Events

Videos

Heidi (1937) -- (Movie Clip) In Our Little Wooden Shoes The only true musical number, Shirley Temple (title character) reading with grandfather (Jean Hersholt) then imagining to In Our Little Wooden Shoes by Lew Pollack and Sidney D. Mitchell, in Heidi, 1937.

Straight Place And Show (1938) -- (Movie Clip) With You On My Mind In the opening scenes no trace of the stars (The Ritz Brothers) but we’ve met “society horsewoman” Barbara (Phyllis Brooks) who was late for her own engagement party, and her fiancè (Richard Arlen) and his discarded admirer, Broadway’s Ethel Merman, with an original by Lew Pollack and Lew Brown, in Straight Place And Show, 1938.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) We Want The Balboa The football team dance, Dixie Dunbar with Stu Erwin, all the Yacht Club Boys, Betty Grable and Johnny Downs, Patsy Kelly and Jack Haley, and finally Judy Garland, loaned from MGM to Fox, for her first song in her first feature, by Lew Pollack and Sidney D. Mitchell, in Pigskin Parade, 1936.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Texas Tornado Sending the Texas State team off for the game with Yale, with Jack Haley — later the Tin Man in The Wizard Of Oz — as the preening coach, and Judy Garland as the hillbilly quarterback’s little sister, with her second song in the feature, in Pigskin Parade, 1936.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) It's Love I'm After Before the big game vs. Yale, Judy Garland (age 14) representing fictional Texas State, her song by Lew Pollack and Sidney D. Mitchell, said to have stopped traffic outside the LA coliseum while she performed it inside, in her one-time loan-out to Fox from MGM, in Pigskin Parade, 1936.

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