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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.
Harry Ruby. Music Department: Duck Soup. As 'Harry Ruby', Harry Rubenstein was a 'song plugger' for Gus Edwards and for George Gershwin at Jerome H. Remick's, the Detroit music publishing firm. He had unfulfilled ambitions to become a professional baseball player and had previously worked the vaudeville circuit as a pianist with The Bootblack ...
- January 27, 1895
- February 23, 1974
Harry Ruby. Harry Ruby was born on October 29, 1895, and died on February 23, 1974. Like Kalmar, Ruby was also born in New York City. Ruby failed in his early ambition of becoming a professional baseball player.
Harry Ruby (1895-1974) was a prolific and influential American songwriter, composer and actor. He co-wrote many popular songs with Bert Kalmar, such as "I Wanna Be Loved by You" and "Who's Sorry Now?", and worked on several Broadway shows and movies.
- January 1, 1
- New York City, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Harry Ruby, one half of the famed Kalmar & Ruby songwriting team, was born in New York City on January 27, 1895. Growing up in New York, he attended public schools and in his early career worked as a pianist and song plugger for the Gus Edwards and Harry Von Tilzer publishing firms (one of his co-workers at Edwards' place was the young Walter ...
By this time, he had earned enough to start a music publishing company, Kalmar and Puck, where he collaborated with a number of songwriters, including Harry Puck (1891–1964) and Harry Ruby. The publishing firm also operated under the name Kalmar, Puck, Abrahams, Consolidated, Inc., the other named partner being Maurice Abrahams (1883–1931 ...
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Feb 25, 1974 · LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24—Harry Ruby, popular‐song composer and writer of Broadway stage scores and movie scenarios, died last night in the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.