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Jack Yellen built up his entertainment career by putting his musical skills to use in the world of Hollywood. Yellen began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the drama "Honky Tonk" (1929) with Sophie Tucker, "Bulldog Drummond" (1929) and "They Learned About Women" (1930). His music also appeared in "Chasing Rainbows" (1930), the musical "George White's Sca...

Filmography

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Shipyard Sally (1939)

My Lucky Star (1938)

Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Original Screenplay

Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Submarine Patrol (1938)

Hold That Co-Ed (1938)

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Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Be Optimistic

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Thank You?

Biography

Jack Yellen built up his entertainment career by putting his musical skills to use in the world of Hollywood. Yellen began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the drama "Honky Tonk" (1929) with Sophie Tucker, "Bulldog Drummond" (1929) and "They Learned About Women" (1930). His music also appeared in "Chasing Rainbows" (1930), the musical "George White's Scandals" (1934) with Rudy Vallee and the Alice Faye musical "George White's 1935 Scandals" (1935). Yellen's music was also featured in the dramatic adventure "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken" (1991) with Gabrielle Anwar, "Stepping Out" (1991) with Liza Minnelli and the comedy "The Distinguished Gentleman" (1992) with Eddie Murphy. His music was also featured in "Primary Colors" (1998) with John Travolta. Yellen's music was most recently used in the dramatic adaptation "Quartet" (2012) with Maggie Smith. Yellen passed away in April 1991 at the age of 99.

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Shipyard Sally (1939)

My Lucky Star (1938)

Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Original Screenplay

Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Submarine Patrol (1938)

Hold That Co-Ed (1938)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Love Is News (1937)

Wake Up and Live (1937)

Pigskin Parade (1936)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)

Our Little Girl (1935)

Additional Dialogue

Spring Tonic (1935)

Addl Original dial

David Harum (1934)

Contract Writer

Marie Galante (1934)

Contr on Special seq

Hell in the Heavens (1934)

Additional Dialogue

George White's Scandals (1934)

Additional Dialogue

Honky Tonk (1929)

Music (Feature Film)

Glee The 3D Concert Movie (2011)

Idlewild (2006)

The Aviator (2004)

The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

The Newton Boys (1998)

Primary Colors (1998)

That's Entertainment! III (1994)

The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

Stepping Out (1991)

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)

True Colors (1991)

Off Beat (1986)

Miss Mary (1986)

Song ("Ain'T She Sweet")

52 Pick-Up (1986)

The Lady in Red (1979)

What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)

The Bellboy (1960)

Jazz Ball (1958)

Beau James (1957)

Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)

When You're Smiling (1950)

Make Mine Laughs (1949)

You Were Meant for Me (1948)

April Showers (1948)

Night and Day (1946)

George White's Scandals (1945)

Follow the Boys (1944)

Bells of Capistrano (1942)

Kitty Foyle (1940)

Happy Landing (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Git Along Little Dogies (1937)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

Everybody's Old Man (1936)

Here's to Romance (1935)

Show Them No Mercy! (1935)

Thanks a Million (1935)

George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)

George White's Scandals (1934)

Marie Galante (1934)

Rain or Shine (1930)

King of Jazz (1930)

They Learned About Women (1930)

Chasing Rainbows (1930)

The Glad Rag Doll (1929)

This Is Heaven (1929)

Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Honky Tonk (1929)

Music (Special)

Robert Zemeckis on Smoking, Drinking and Drugging in the 20th Century: In Pursuit of Happiness (1999)

Michael Feinstein & Friends (1991)

Music (Short)

Berth Marks (1929)

Life Events

Videos

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Be Optimistic Opening with Shirley Temple replacing the youngest of the Brian Sisters trio, with a tune by Harold Spina and Walter Bullock, then Jane Darwell confirming her usual status as an orphan, in this case just being adopted, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938, featuring George Murphy and Jimmy Durante.

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Thank You? Shirley Temple relates to her new adoptive sister (Phyllis Brooks), who helps run the show-biz hotel, where Jimmy Durante is rehearsing his band, and the owner next door (Edna Mae Oliver, with brother Donald Meek) has a problem with noise, song by Harold Spina and Walter Bullock, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938.

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) We Should Be Together Shirley Temple, adopted by the operators of a showbiz hotel, hopes to persuade the owners not to shut it down, and happily meets their agreeable nephew, George Murphy, celebrating with another Harold Spina/Walter Bullock tune, choreographed by Nick Castle, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Come And Get Your Happiness The plot crafted to accommodate a remote radio broadcast from the upstate New York farm, Jack Haley introduces and Shirley Temple (title character) sings, an original by Samuel Pokrass and Jack Yellen, in 20th Century-Fox’s B>Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938.

Pete Kelly's Bues (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Hard Hearted Hannah Jack Webb, the producer, director and band-leader title character narrates about prohibition-era Kansas City rackets, then stumbles upon an improbably good local singer, Ella Fitzgerald in her cameo, with a tune she once recorded, by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, in Pete Kelly's Blues, 1955.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) What's Wrong With Texas? New York high school coach Jack Haley and wife Patsy Kelly arrive for his new gig at fictional Texas State, greeted by Johnny Downs as Carson, Betty Grable his girl, with Dixie Dunbar, Arline Judge and Fred Kohler Jr. as running back Biff, in Pigskin Parade, 1936, from Twentieth Century-Fox.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Y'all Stop For Melons? Judy Garland’s first scene in her first feature, collegians Johnny Downs and Betty Grable on a failed recruiting trip with the coach’s wife (Patsy Kelly) when they discover Judy and her redneck melon-heaving brother Stu Erwin, in Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pigskin Parade 1936.

George White's Scandals (1945) -- (Movie Clip) It's You Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and John Wayne and others are edited into Joan Davis and Jack Haley's high-tech performance of "I Wake Up In The Morning It's You" by Jack Yellen and Sammy Fain in George White's Scandals, 1945.

George White's Scandals (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Krupa Opening title sequence for George White's Scandals, 1945, followed by Patti Nelson singing "How Did You Get Out of My Dreams" by Jack Yellen and Sammy Fain, and Gene Krupa drumming and M-C'ing.

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