Mack Gordon

Lyricist

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Birth Place

Poland

Born

June 21, 1904

Died

March 01, 1959

Biography

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Academy Award-winning musician Mack Gordon was truly a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. He began his career performing as a boy soprano in minstrel shows. In 1940, he began a long collaboration with composer Harry Warren. He teamed with composer Harry Revel in the 1930s to write songs. In 1935, he wrote both the music and lyrics for the song "My Heart Is an Open Book." Gordon beg...

Filmography

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You're My Everything (1949)

Collegiate (1935)

Singing instructor

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Contract Writer

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

The Highwaymen (2019)

Photos & Videos

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Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Chattanooga Choo Choo

Pin Up Girl (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Carry Tales Out Of School

Biography

Academy Award-winning musician Mack Gordon was truly a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. He began his career performing as a boy soprano in minstrel shows. In 1940, he began a long collaboration with composer Harry Warren. He teamed with composer Harry Revel in the 1930s to write songs. In 1935, he wrote both the music and lyrics for the song "My Heart Is an Open Book." Gordon began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the comedy "The Old-Fashioned Way" (1934) with W C Fields, "We're Not Dressing" (1934) with Bing Crosby and the Bing Crosby musical comedy "She Loves Me Not" (1934). His music also appeared in the dramedy "Now and Forever" (1934) with Gary Cooper and "College Rhythm" (1934). Though known first for his music, Gordon also acted in the musical comedy "Sitting Pretty" (1933) with Jack Oakie. Gordon won a Music (Song) Academy Award for "Hello, Frisco, Hello" in 1943. Gordon was nominated for a Music (Song) Academy Award for "Down Argentine Way" in 1940 as well as for a Music (Song) Academy Award for "Sun Valley Serenade" in 1941. Gordon was also credited in "A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy's Revenge" (1985), "Brighton Beach Memoirs" with Blythe Danner (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987). He also was recognized in "The Puppetoon Movie" with Paul Frees (1987). Gordon was most recently credited in the action comedy "Pixels" (2015) with Adam Sandler. Gordon passed away in March 1959 at the age of 55.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

You're My Everything (1949)

Collegiate (1935)

Singing instructor

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Writer (Feature Film)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Contract Writer

Producer (Feature Film)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Music (Feature Film)

The Highwaymen (2019)

Ad Astra (2019)

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

A Star is Born (2018)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Table 19 (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Accidental Love (2015)

Broken City (2013)

Gangster Squad (2013)

Just Wright (2010)

Precious (2009)

(500) Days of Summer (2009)

The Edge of Love (2008)

My Best Friend's Girl (2008)

My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008)

Bachelor No. 2 (2008)

The Savages (2007)

The Lake House (2006)

Phat Girlz (2006)

Just My Luck (2006)

The Wedding Weekend (2006)

Inland Empire (2006)

Hollywoodland (2006)

Little Manhattan (2005)

In Her Shoes (2005)

Anything Else (2003)

It Runs in the Family (2003)

Song ("You'Ll Never Know")

Hollywood Ending (2002)

High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)

Song ("The More I See You")

Reindeer Games (2000)

Men of Honor (2000)

Election (1999)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

The End of the Affair (1999)

Anywhere But Here (1999)

American Pie (1999)

The Other Sister (1999)

The Green Mile (1999)

Fanny and Elvis (1999)

The Misadventures of Margaret (1998)

Kissing a Fool (1998)

Patch Adams (1998)

Buena Vista Social Club (1998)

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Living out Loud (1998)

Love Is the Devil (1998)

Song ("Time On My Hands")

Picture Perfect (1997)

Songs ("I Had The Craziest Dream" "You'Ll Never Know" "The More I See You" "You Make Me Feel So Young" "There'S A Lull In My Life")

Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

'Til There Was You (1997)

That Old Feeling (1997)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Song ("At Last")

Out to Sea (1997)

The Devil's Own (1997)

The Neon Bible (1995)

Song Composer ("Chattanooga Choo Choo")

Dare to Love (1995)

That's Entertainment! III (1994)

Rising Sun (1993)

The Cemetery Club (1993)

Jack the Bear (1993)

Swing Kids (1993)

Shining Through (1992)

The Public Eye (1992)

Prelude to a Kiss (1992)

Love Potion No. 9 (1992)

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)

29th Street (1991)

The Fisher King (1991)

For the Boys (1991)

Another You (1991)

Memphis Belle (1990)

Lady in White (1988)

Track 29 (1988)

Song ("The More I See You")

Cocoon: the Return (1988)

The Puppetoon Movie (1987)

Radio Days (1987)

Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

Risky Business (1983)

Song ("My Heart Tells Me")

The World According to Garp (1982)

Song ("There Will Never Be Another You")

Raging Bull (1980)

Joe Albany... A Jazz Life (1980)

Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More (1974)

B. J. Lang Presents (1971)

Holiday for Lovers (1959)

The Rookie (1959)

The Blue Angel (1959)

Gang War (1958)

The River's Edge (1957)

Joe Butterfly (1957)

Bundle of Joy (1956)

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Young at Heart (1954)

So This Is Love (1953)

Scared Stiff (1953)

The I Don't Care Girl (1953)

The Stooge (1953)

The Girl Next Door (1953)

I Love Melvin (1953)

Pickup on South Street (1953)

Dreamboat (1952)

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)

Call Me Mister (1951)

Half Angel (1951)

As Young As You Feel (1951)

The Big Lift (1950)

Summer Stock (1950)

A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)

Under My Skin (1950)

I'll Get By (1950)

Wabash Avenue (1950)

Come to the Stable (1949)

You're My Everything (1949)

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)

It Happens Every Spring (1949)

Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)

Give My Regards to Broadway (1948)

Mother Wore Tights (1947)

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1947)

Do You Love Me (1946)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

The Dolly Sisters (1945)

Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (1945)

Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)

Music consulant

Winged Victory (1944)

Take It or Leave It (1944)

Pin Up Girl (1944)

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

Greenwich Village (1944)

Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)

Sweet and Low-Down (1944)

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

Time to Kill (1943)

Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)

Song of the Islands (1942)

Orchestra Wives (1942)

The Night Before the Divorce (1942)

Springtime in the Rockies (1942)

Dance Hall (1941)

Small Town Deb (1941)

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)

The Great American Broadcast (1941)

That Night in Rio (1941)

Week-End in Havana (1941)

Lillian Russell (1940)

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Little Old New York (1940)

Johnny Apollo (1940)

Down Argentine Way (1940)

Star Dust (1940)

Young People (1940)

Rose of Washington Square (1939)

The Rains Came (1939)

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)

Tail Spin (1939)

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

My Lucky Star (1938)

In Old Chicago (1938)

Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Hold That Co-Ed (1938)

Thanks for Everything (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Love and Hisses (1937)

This Is My Affair (1937)

Thin Ice (1937)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)

Fifty Roads to Town (1937)

Wake Up and Live (1937)

You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

Everybody Dance (1937)

Head over Heels in Love (1937)

Three Cheers for Love (1936)

Palm Springs (1936)

Florida Special (1936)

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

Stowaway (1936)

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Love in Bloom (1935)

Collegiate (1935)

Two for Tonight (1935)

Paris in Spring (1935)

Stolen Harmony (1935)

Shoot the Works (1934)

Now and Forever (1934)

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

College Rhythm (1934)

Here Comes the Groom (1934)

We're Not Dressing (1934)

She Loves Me Not (1934)

White Woman (1933)

Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Swing High (1930)

Pointed Heels (1929)

The Song of Love (1929)

Music (Special)

Keith Jarrett: Standards (1988)

Song ("I Wish I Knew")

Music (TV Mini-Series)

If These Walls Could Talk (1996)

Life Events

1933

With Revel, wrote new songs for the film musical "The Gay Divorcee"

1935

Wrote both the music and lyrics for the song "My Heart Is an Open Book"

1940

Began a long collaboration with composer Harry Warren

Videos

Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Chattanooga Choo Choo After the vocal and instrumental from Glenn Miller's band, the last bit of the number, Dorothy Dandridge the girl singer, with her future husband, the taller Nicholas brother Harold, and his brother Fayard, the famous tune by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, in Sun Valley Serenade, 1941.

Pin Up Girl (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Carry Tales Out Of School Miffed New York night club star Molly (Martha Raye) calls Lorry (Betty Grable, with pal Dorothea Kent, from Missouri) on her claim she starred in a just-closed Broadway show, so owner Joe E. Brown introduces her for a number by James V. Monaco and Mack Gordon, in Pin Up Girl, 1944.

Pin Up Girl (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Once Too Often Now a New York star in her own right, Betty Grable (who plays a Missouri gal named Lorry) in a sexier number choreographed-by and featuring Hermes Pan, the song another original by James V. “Jimmy” Monaco and Mack Gordon, in Pin Up Girl, 1944.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought We Were Wowing Them! At a radio audition, Shirley Temple as Rebecca and William Demarest as uncle Harry, looking to impress assistant Orville (Jack Haley), sponsor Bartlett (Paul Harvey) and ad-man Kent (Randolph Scott) with a tune by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, in Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Better Than Alice Faye Opening flourish from director Martin Scorsese, young Alice (Mia Bendixsen) with Alice Faye's take on "You'll Never Know," then Mott The Hoople with Ian Hunter's "All The Way From Memphis," grown-up Alice (Ellen Burstyn) with son Tom (Alfred Lutter), in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Myra Breckinridge (1970) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta S-M-I-L-E To Be H-A-P-P-Y Following the opening in which Rex Reed, as critic “Myron” Breckinridge got a sex-change operation, Shirley Temple’s song (from Stowaway, 1937, by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon) accompanies the introduction of Raquel Welch as the title character (we’re supposed to understand that Rex Reed now exists only as her alter-ego), with a creditable dance routine on Hollywood then Sunset Blvd., in Myra Breckinridge, 1970, from the Gore Vidal novel.

That Night In Rio (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Chica Chica Boom Chic Opening with an original song, by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, for Carmen Miranda and then Don Ameche, whom we will learn are "Carmen" and American Larry, performers in a Rio night club, in 20th Century-Fox's That Night In Rio, 1941, also starring Alice Faye.

That Night In Rio (1941) -- (Movie Clip) They Met In Rio Still on that first night in the Rio night club, Don Ameche as American singer Larry meets Alice Faye as Brazilian baroness Cecilia, whose prominent husband he impersonates as part of his act, song by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, in That Night In Rio, 1941.

That Night In Rio (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Cai Cai Straight up number for Carmen Miranda, who plays an entertainer named Carmen, performing at a Brazilian society party, co-stars Don Ameche and Alice Faye in her audience, original song by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, in 20th Century-Fox's That Night In Rio, 1941.

Pennies From Heaven (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Ever See A Dream, Walking? Working his east-central Illinois sheet-music sales territory, Arthur (Steve Martin) haggles with shopkeeper Barrett (Raleigh Bond) then sees Eileen (Bernadette Peters) for the first time, miming the Bing Crosby recording of the song by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, in Pennies From Heaven, 1981.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Goodnight, My Love Seems like the screenwriters maybe gave up, admitting that Alice Faye's solo ballad, by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, just doesn't work with the story, as she fends off shipboard Romeo Robert Young, in the Shirley Temple vehicle Stowaway, 1936.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta S-M-I-L-E At port in Hong Kong, enjoying a show with friends Tommy and Susan (Robert Young, Alice Faye), who are not (yet) a couple, orphan Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple, with a song by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon) reveals hidden talents, with impressions, in 20th Century-Fox's Stowaway, 1936.

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