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Harry Ruby

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ComposerBook Writer 1895–1974

Harry Rubenstein (January 27, 1895 – February 23, 1974), known professionally as Harry Ruby, was an American pianist, composer, songwriter and screenwriter, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. He was married to silent film actress Eileen Percy.

Also credited on5 works

Good Boy
Lucky
She’s My Baby
Fosse
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature7 passages

  • Clark and McCullough finally got to topline their own Broadway production in the thoroughly nutty Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar musical The Ramblers, in which they played a pair of traveling con men posing as mystics who somehow get involved in a film shoot in Mexico and need to save the leading lady from a kidnapper. It ran 289 performances…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • HARRY RUBY, 79, composer, lyricist, and playwright, died Feb. 23, 1974 in Woodland Hills, NY," "No Other Girl," "The Ramblers," "Lucky,"theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • THE COCKEYED TIGER Written and Directed by Eric Blau; Choreography, Gemze de Lappe, Buzz Miller; Musical Score, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby; Original Music and Lyrics, Nicholas Meyers, Eric Blau; Sets and Costumes, Donald Jensen; Lighting, Crimmins & Smith; Arrangements, Nicholas Meyers, Nicholas Archer, Jimmy Wisner; Production Assistants, E…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1976-77 Season, v. 33 (Willis).txt
  • HARRY RUBY'S SONGS MY MOTHER NEVER SANG coconceived by Michael S. Roth and Paul Lazarus; Based on an original idea by Michael S. Roth; Director, Paul Lazarus; Choreography, Douglas Norwick; Orchestration and Musical Direction, Michael S. Roth; Set, Jane Thurn; Costumes, Christa Scholtz; Lighting, F. Mitchell Dana; Stage Managers, Esther C…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1981-82 Season, v. 38 (Willis).txt
  • FRECHETTE, PETER. Born Oct. 3, 1956 in Warwick, RI. Graduate U. RI. Debut OB 1979 in The Hornbeam Maze, followed by Journey's End, In Cahoots, Harry Ruby's Songs My Mother Never Sang, Pontifications on Pigtails and Puberty, Scooter Thomas Makes it to the Top of the World, We're Home, Flora, the Red Menace, Eastern Standard, Hyde In Hollyw…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1990-1991 Season, v. 47 (Willis).txt
  • FRECHETTE, PETER Born October 3, 1956 in Warwick, RI. OB debut 1979 in Hornbeam Maze, followed by Journeys End, In Cahoots, Harry Ruby’stheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2000-01 Season, v. 57 (Willis).txt

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