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BIRTHDAY

May 11, 1888

Tyumen, Siberia, Russia

DIED

September 22, 1989

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BIOGRAPHY

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One of the most important composers of American popular music in the twentieth century, Berlin, whose "Alexander's Ragtime Band" all but invented the popular song, dominated American musical films and plays of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Berlin wrote the first song ever to be used in a film--"Blue Skies", performed by Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer" (1927). He went on to compose the words and music for such films as "Top Hat" (1935), "Follow the Fleet" (1936), "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938), "Holiday Inn" (1942), "Blue Skies" (1946) and such stage shows as "Annie, Get Your Gun" and "Call Me Madam". Berlin was also the composer of one of America's most beloved patriotic songs, "God Bless America".

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Jan. 9, 2003

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