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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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Filmography

My Best Friend's Girl - ( Song / 2008 / Released / )
Rocky Balboa - ( Song / 2007 / Released / )
Click - ( Song / 2006 / Released / )
Let's Go To Prison - ( Song / 2006 / Released / )
Munich - ( Song / 2005 / Released / )
Criminal - ( Song / 2004 / Released / )
Anything Else - ( Song / 2003 / Released / )
How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days - ( Song / 2003 / Released / )
Catch Me If You Can - ( Song / 2002 / Released / )
The Adventures of Pluto Nash - ( Song / 2002 / Released / )
Two Weeks Notice - ( Song / 2002 / Released / )
Domestic Disturbance - ( Song / 2001 / Released / )
My First Mister - ( Song / 2001 / Released / )
Autumn in New York - ( Song / 2000 / Released / )
What Planet Are You From? - ( Song / 2000 / Released / )
American Beauty - ( Song(- songs) / 1999 / Released / )
B. Monkey - ( Song / 1999 / Released / Filmpop )
Blast From the Past - ( Song / 1999 / Released / Nippon Herald Films, Inc )
Bringing Out the Dead - ( Song / 1999 / Released / )
Just the Ticket - ( Song / 1999 / Released / Shochiku Company, Ltd. )
Payback - ( Song / 1999 / Released / )
Pushing Tin - ( Song / 1999 / Released / )
Snow Falling on Cedars - ( Song / 1999 / Released / )
Antz - ( Song / 1998 / Released / )
Sour Grapes - ( Song / 1998 / Released / )
Fools Rush In - ( Song / 1997 / Released / )
Mother - ( Song / 1997 / Released / )
Out to Sea - ( Song / 1997 / Released / )
That Old Feeling - ( Song / 1997 / Released / )
Vegas Vacation - ( Song(- songs) / 1997 / Released / )
Citizen Ruth - ( Song / 1996 / Released / Skifan )
Michael - ( Song(- songs) / 1996 / Released / )
My Fellow Americans - ( Song / 1996 / Released / )
Star Trek: First Contact - ( Song / 1996 / Released / )
Miami Rhapsody - ( Song / 1995 / Released / )
A Bronx Tale - ( Song(- songs) / 1993 / Released / )
Philadelphia - ( Song / 1993 / Released / )
Rookie of the Year - ( Song / 1993 / Released / )
Bebe's Kids - ( Song / 1992 / Released / )
Cool World - ( Song / 1992 / Released / )
Dying Young - ( Song / 1991 / Released / KF )
Hudson Hawk - ( Song / 1991 / Released / Svensk Filmindustri Norge )
Only the Lonely - ( Song / 1991 / Released / Hoyts Distribution )
True Colors - ( Song / 1991 / Released / )
Air America - ( Song / 1990 / Released / 20th Century Fox Studios )
Alice (Paramount) - ( Song(- songs) / 1990 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
Betsy's Wedding - ( Song / 1990 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Goodfellas - ( Song / 1990 / Released / Gilad )
Crimes and Misdemeanors - ( Song / 1989 / Released / MGM/UA Home Video )
Let's Get Lost - ( Song / 1989 / Released / Kuzui Enterprises )
New York Stories - ( Song(- song "It Could Happen to You") / 1989 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
The Presidio - ( Song / 1988 / Released / )
Hannah and Her Sisters - ( Song / 1986 / Released / )
Racing With the Moon - ( Song / 1984 / Released / )
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean - ( Music / 1982 / Released / )
American Pop - ( Song / 1981 / Released / )
This Is Elvis - ( Song / 1981 / Released / )
Raging Bull - ( Song / 1980 / Released / )
Mikey and Nicky - ( Song / 1976 / Released / )
Journey Back to Oz - ( Song(- songs) / 1974 / Released / )
Nightmare Honeymoon - ( Song / 1972 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
The Great Bank Robbery - ( Song(- songs) / 1969 / Released / )
Star! - ( Song / 1968 / Released / )
Thoroughly Modern Millie - ( Song(- songs) / 1967 / Released / )
Texas Across the River - ( Song(- title song) / 1966 / Released / )
Honeymoon Hotel - ( Song(- songs) / 1964 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
Robin and the Seven Hoods - ( Song(- songs) / 1964 / Released / )
The Pleasure Seekers - ( Song(- songs) / 1964 / Released / )
Where Love Has Gone - ( Song(- songs) / 1964 / Released / )
Come Blow Your Horn - ( Song(- songs) / 1963 / Released / )
Four For Texas - ( Song(- title song) / 1963 / Released / )
Johnny Cool - ( Song(- title song) / 1963 / Released / )
My Six Loves - ( Song / 1963 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
Papa's Delicate Condition - ( Song / 1963 / Released / )
Under the Yum Yum Tree - ( Song(- title song) / 1963 / Released / Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group )
Come Fly With Me - ( Song(- title song) / 1962 / Released / )
The Road to Hong Kong - ( Song(- songs) / 1962 / Released / )
A Pocketful of Miracles - ( Music / 1961 / Released / )
High Time - ( Song(- songs) / 1960 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Let's Make Love - ( Song(- songs) / 1960 / Released / )
Ocean's Eleven - ( Song(- songs) / 1960 / Released / )
Surprise Package - ( Song(- title song) / 1960 / Released / Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group )
The World of Suzie Wong - ( Song(- title song) / 1960 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
Wake Me When It's Over - ( Song(- songs) / 1960 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Who Was That Lady? - ( Song(- songs) / 1960 / Released / )
A Hole in the Head - ( Song / 1959 / Released / )
Career - ( Song / 1959 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
Holiday For Lovers - ( Song(- title song) / 1959 / Released / )
Journey to the Center of the Earth - ( Song(- songs) / 1959 / Released / )
Journey to the Center of the Earth - ( Music / 1959 / Released / )
Night of the Quarter Moon - ( Song / 1959 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
Say One For Me - ( Music / 1959 / Released / )
They Came to Cordura - ( Song(- title song) / 1959 / Released / )
This Earth Is Mine - ( Music / 1959 / Released / Universal )
Indiscreet - ( Song / 1958 / Released / )
Paris Holiday - ( Song / 1958 / Released / )
Some Came Running - ( Music / 1958 / Released / )
The Joker Is Wild - ( Song(- songs) / 1957 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
Anything Goes - ( Song(- songs) / 1956 / Released / )
Pardners - ( Song(- songs) / 1956 / Released / )
Not As a Stranger - ( Song / 1955 / Released / United Artists Pictures Inc. )
The Tender Trap - ( Song / 1955 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
Young at Heart - ( Song / 1955 / Released / )
Little Boy Lost - ( Song(- songs) / 1953 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
Road to Bali - ( Song(- songs) / 1953 / Released / )
Road to Morocco - ( Song(- songs) / 1942 / Released / )

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Full Biography (Back to top)


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.

Profession(s):
songwriter, composer, pianist, radio station announcer
Sometimes Credited As:
Edward Chester Babcock
James Van Heusen
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Family
wife:Bobbe Van Heusen (married from 1969 until his death; performed on Broadway and in vaudeville with her sisters as the Brox Sisters; born c. 1901; died on May 2, 1999 at age 98; formerly married to agent William Perlberg)

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Education
Syracuse University Syracuse, New York piano and voice
Awards (Back to top)

Oscar Best Song "Call Me Irresponsible" (from "Papa's Delicate Condition") 1963
Oscar Best Song "High Hopes" (from "A Hole in the Head") 1959
Oscar Best Song "All the Way" (from "The Joker Is Wild") 1957
Emmy Best Musical Contribution "A Song from 'Our Town' (Love and Marriage)" 1955
Oscar Best Song "Swinging on a Star" (from "Going My Way") 1944

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1965 - 1966 Co-wrote (with Cahn) two unsuccessful Broadway musicals, "Skyscraper" and "Walking Happy"
1956 Began collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn
1940 Teamed with lyricist Johnny Burke to write for Paramount; first score was "Love Thy Neighbor"
1939 First successful song, "Darn That Dream"
Began writing songs while in high school; placed several songs in Cotton Club revues through friendship with Jerry Arlen, Harold Arlen's older brother; renamed himself after Van Heusen shirt company
Worked as staff pianist for several NY music publishing houses

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