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- Academy Award-winning songwriter ("Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" [1947]), composer and author, educated in public schools and then a writer of special material for Sophie Tucker, Harry Richman and Buddy Rogers. He came to Hollywood in 1939 and wrote for Earl Carroll, then signed for 3 1/2 years with Walt Disney. Joining ASCAP in 1946, his chief musical collaborators included Hoagy Carmichael, Ted Fio Rito, Allie Wrubel, Eddie Sauter and Paul A. Nero. His other popular-song compositions included "You Belong to My Heart", "That's a-Plenty", "Sooner or Later", "The Hot Canary", "Cuanto le Gusta", "My Fickle Eye", "All the Cats Join In", "The Three Caballeros", "Everybody Has a Laughing Place", "Bahia", "Muskrat Ramble", "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet", "I want a Zoot Suit", "Whistle Your Way Back Home", "Ashcan Parade", "Vene, Veno, Vena", "And Roses and Roses", "Cherry", "Two Silhouettes", "Casey at the Bat", "Bonita", "She's a Carioca", "Dindi" and "If You Went Away".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- SpouseJanis Paige(August 30, 1962 - March 3, 1976) (his death)
- Father of singer Joanne Gilbert. Received an Academy Award for his song, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" for Song of the South (1946).
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