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BIRTHDAY

November 18, 1909

Savannah, Georgia, USA

DIED

June 25, 1976

RECENT CREDITS

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (FILM) Mar. 7, 2008

Definitely, Maybe (FILM) Feb. 14, 2008

The Water Horse (FILM) Dec. 25, 2007

P.S. I Love You (FILM) Dec. 21, 2007

The Savages (FILM) Nov. 28, 2007

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BIOGRAPHY

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Writer of the words (and sometimes the music) of "That Old Black Magic", "My Shining Hour", "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe", "Accentuate the Positive", "Something's Gotta Give" and "Jeepers Creepers", among many other song standards of the American pop repertoire. A splendid craftsman of lyrics at once cheerful, slyly witty and romantic, Mercer contributed the score for the Broadway musical "Top Banana" and collaborated with some of America's most distinguished tunesmiths, including Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern and Henri Mancini. Beginning in the 1930s Mercer contributed a number of songs to the screen, including all of the above, as well as one of his best-remembered later compositions, "Moon River" for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961).

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Singer Peggy Lee dead at 81

Jan. 22, 2002

Peggy Lee best known for her contribution to jazz music died from a heart attack Monday in her Bel Air home at age 81and is survived by her daughter Nicki Lee Foster

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