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Hoagy Carmichael
Biography
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.
Top Filmography
7.4
The Flintstones
1960 // TV
7.8
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 // MOVIE
7.5
To Have and Have Not
1945 // MOVIE
6.7
Topper
1937 // MOVIE
6.6
Canyon Passage
1946 // MOVIE
6.4
Young Man with a Horn
1950 // MOVIE
5.9
The Las Vegas Story
1952 // MOVIE
5.9
Johnny Angel
1945 // MOVIE
7.0
What's My Line?
1950 // TV
6.6
Laramie
1959 // TV
6.8
Belles on Their Toes
1952 // MOVIE
6.8
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 // TV
6.0
Burke's Law
1963 // TV
3.3
Climax!
1954 // TV
6.0
Burke's Law
1963 // TV