Harry Warren was born in Brooklyn in 1893 and died in Los Angeles in 1981. He attended Commercial High School and served in the Navy in World War I. He wrote his first hit tune in 1922, and contributed music to such shows as Sweet And Low, The Laugh Parade, Crazy Quilt and Shangri-La. Maurice Chevalier included Warren’s and Johnny Mercer’s “You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby” in his solo Broadway visits in the 1960s. It was in the movies, however, that Warren and Al Dubin, the lyricist of his 42nd Street songs, won their greatest musical fame. Warren contributed to 75 films, including 42nd Street (based on the same novel as the Broadway show) and the Gold Diggers series. He won Oscars for his songs “Lullaby Of Broadway”, “You’ll Never Know” and “On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” and he served on the board of ASCAP.