Harold Arlen

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composer film composer human songwriter

Harold Arlen was an American composer best known for writing classic popular songs and film scores, including the music for "Over the Rainbow" and many other standards from the Great American Songbook.

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	composer → film composer → human → songwriter →
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Original Song →
awardReceivedFor	Over the Rainbow →
birthName	Hyman Arluck →
burialPlace	Ferncliff Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	cancer →
collaboratedWith	Dorothy Fields → E. Y. Harburg → Ira Gershwin → Johnny Mercer → Ted Koehler →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1905-02-15 →
dateOfDeath	1986-04-23 →
ethnicGroup	Jewish American →
fullName	Harold Arlen →
genre	film score → jazz → popular music →
knownFor	contributions to the Great American Songbook → writing songs for the film The Wizard of Oz →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	Great American Songbook →
notableWork	Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive → Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea → Blues in the Night → Come Rain or Come Shine → Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead → Get Happy → Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe → If I Only Had a Brain → Ill Wind → It’s Only a Paper Moon → I’ve Got the World on a String → Let’s Fall in Love → Lydia the Tattooed Lady → My Shining Hour → One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) → Out of This World → Over the Rainbow → Stormy Weather → That Old Black Magic → The Man That Got Away → We’re Off to See the Wizard →
occupation	composer → songwriter →
placeOfBirth	Buffalo, New York, United States →
placeOfDeath	New York City, New York, United States →
religion	Judaism →
wroteMusicFor	Blues in the Night (film) → Stormy Weather (film) → The Wizard of Oz →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead → Get Happy → If I Only Had a Brain → Over the Rainbow → The Man That Got Away → We're Off to See the Wizard →	composer
A Star Is Born (1954 film) → Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead → Over the Rainbow → The Wizard of Oz →	musicBy
The Man That Got Away →	associatedAct
E. Y. Harburg →	collaboratedWith
Harold Arlen →	fullName
Kensico Cemetery →	hasNotableBurial
Jerome Kern →	influenced