E.Y. Harburg

E.Y. Harburg

1896-04-08 29 Credits

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Groucho & Cavett

Groucho & Cavett

2022

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

Discover the enduring friendship between television personality Dick Cavett and his mentor iconic comedian Groucho Marx. Their relationship is chronic...

The Wizard of Oz on Ice

The Wizard of Oz on Ice

1996

Songs, Lyricist

7.7

An ice-skating television adaptation of the 1939 musical film based on Lyman Frank Baum's 1900 fairy tale novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".

The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True

The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True

1995

Lyricist

6.5

This production consists an abbreviated script and highlights most musical numbers from the 1939 film.

The Great Man's Whiskers

The Great Man's Whiskers

1972

Songs

A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.

Finian's Rainbow

Finian's Rainbow

1968

Screenplay, Musical, Lyricist

5.9
Writing

An Irish immigrant and his daughter arrive in Kentucky with a magical piece of gold that alters the course of several lives, including those of a stru...

I Could Go on Singing

I Could Go on Singing

1963

Lyricist

6.0

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few ...

Gay Purr-ee

Gay Purr-ee

1962

Songs

6.6

Mewsette is a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom, and ...

Bloomer Girl

Bloomer Girl

1956

Lyricist

In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leadi...

California

California

1947

Lyricist

6.5

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Jo...

Can't Help Singing

Can't Help Singing

1944

Lyricist

5.1

With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has hi...

Hollywood Canteen

Hollywood Canteen

1944

Lyricist

7.3

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club...

Kismet

Kismet

1944

Songs

4.8

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the c...

Hell-Bent for Election

Hell-Bent for Election

1944

Lyricist

5.3

A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is ...

Meet the People

Meet the People

1944

Producer

5.0
Producing

A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some importan...

Cover Girl

Cover Girl

1944

Lyricist

6.4

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Cabin in the Sky

Cabin in the Sky

1943

Lyricist

6.5

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for si...

Panama Hattie

Panama Hattie

1942

Lyricist

4.0

Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.

Ship Ahoy

Ship Ahoy

1942

Lyricist

5.9

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that ...

Rio Rita

Rio Rita

1942

Lyricist

5.8

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway

1941

Lyricist

6.4

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up th...

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

as Self

6.5
Acting

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

At the Circus

At the Circus

1939

Lyricist

6.3

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take ov...

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

1939

Lyricist

7.6

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow ...

Gold Diggers of 1937

Gold Diggers of 1937

1936

Lyricist

5.8

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conn...

Stage Struck

Stage Struck

1936

Lyricist

4.0

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

The Singing Kid

The Singing Kid

1936

Lyricist

4.0

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl ...

Broadway Gondolier

Broadway Gondolier

1935

Story

5.4
Writing

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

Queen High

Queen High

1930

Songs

6.0

The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he pro...

Applause

Applause

1929

Lyricist

6.2

This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated d...