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DIED
February 06, 1990

RECENT CREDITS
I Love You, Man (FILM)  Mar. 20, 2009
Frost/Nixon (FILM)  Dec. 5, 2008
My Best Friend's Girl (FILM)  Sep. 19, 2008
Rocky Balboa (FILM)  Dec. 20, 2006

BIOGRAPHY
Taking his name from the shirt manufacturer, Van Heusen began writing songs for films in 1940, first in partnership with Johnny Burke and then, after 1956 with Sammy Cahn. A composer with a highly reliable ear for....
Taking his name from the shirt manufacturer, Van Heusen began writing songs for films in 1940, first in partnership with Johnny Burke and then, after 1956 with Sammy Cahn. A composer with a highly reliable ear for catchy ditties and dramatic ballads alike, he wrote such Oscar-winners as "Swinging on a Star" from "Going My Way" (1944) and "High Hopes" from "A Hole in the Head" (1959). Van Heusen wrote 76 tunes recorded by Frank Sinatra (more than any other composer) and the songs for six of the seven Bing Crosby-Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour "Road" comedy films.



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