Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time
1990
Mel Tormé hosts this retrospective of the most prolific period of Frank Sinatra’s career from the beginning to mid-60s. Told through interviews with c...

The Perils of P.K
1986
P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperate for a comeback, and thinks she could make one if...

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
1979
as Self
Gala tribute to the Chairman of the Board.

Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
1977
Lyricist
While traveling to meet with the Hessian King, the famed Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, travel through an enchanted forest where they find themsel...

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as Himself - Host
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

Joys
1976
as Self
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies t...

Journey Back to Oz
1972
Songs
Dorothy and Toto return to the Land of Oz to find the Scarecrow as ruler of the Emerald City. Unfortunately for the new mayor, the wicked Mombi is con...

The Night the Animals Talked
1970
Lyricist
Common farm animals in the stable of Christ's birth begin to talk and communicate for the first time upon Mary and Joseph's arrival. They realize a mi...

Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967
Lyricist
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twentie...

Jack and the Beanstalk
1967
Lyricist
A retelling of the popular fairy tale that mixes live action and animation.

Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964
Songs
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob bos...

How the West Was Won
1962
Lyricist
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one ...

The Road to Hong Kong
1962
Songs
When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are thrust...

Big Night Out: The Peggy Lee Show
1961
Peggy Lee hosts an all-star cast and sings a number of her signature songs.

High Time
1960
Lyricist
Despite the dissapproval of his grown son and daughter, 51-year-old widdower and wealthy restauranteur Harvey Howard decides it's 'high time' to he ge...

Let's Make Love
1960
Lyricist
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order ...

Ocean's Eleven
1960
Songs
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

Say One for Me
1959
Songs
Father Conroy has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishioners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly ...

Party Girl
1958
Lyricist
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realiz...

The Long, Hot Summer
1958
Lyricist
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

The Edge of Innocence
1957
Music
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.

The Greer Case
1957
Musician
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

The Opposite Sex
1956
Lyricist
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ...

Heritage of Anger
1956
Music
Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son Johnny aspires to be a jet pilot. Howev...

The Big Slide
1956
Music
A down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent movie star, but experiences tragedy in his personal life. May Marley is a...

The Country Husband
1956
Music
After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.

Rendezvous in Black
1956
Music
Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by killing the loved ones of the passengers on the fli...

Sizeman and Son
1956
Music
Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, returns from the Korean War with new ideas about human ...

Pardners
1956
Songs
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Sli...

Anything Goes
1956
Lyricist
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female...

The Court Jester
1955
Songs
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

Our Town
1955
Lyricist
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get de...

How To Be Very, Very Popular
1955
Lyricist
Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cu...

The Seven Year Itch
1955
Lyricist
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from th...

Love Me or Leave Me
1955
Songs
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stard...

Three Sailors and a Girl
1953
Producer
A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

Peter Pan
1953
Lyricist
Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. But while in Ne...

Double Dynamite
1951
Lyricist
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.

Purple Heart Diary
1951
Lyricist
A trio of singers entertaining hospitalized soldiers during WWII encourage a wounded soldier in his love for a nurse.

The West Point Story
1950
Songs
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

I'll Get By
1950
Lyricist
I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie ...

It's a Great Feeling
1949
Lyricist
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and ...

Romance on the High Seas
1948
Songs, Lyricist
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband che...

The Miracle of the Bells
1948
Lyricist
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days...

Glamour Girl
1948
Lyricist
A talent scout and her colleague form their own company when their agency ignores their latest discovery.

It Happened in Brooklyn
1947
Lyricist
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Bro...

Ladies' Man
1947
Lyricist
A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.

Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946
Lyricist
An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...

The Falcon's Alibi
1946
Lyricist
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.

The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
Lyricist, Original Music Composer
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspaper...

Cinderella Jones
1946
Lyricist
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

The Stork Club
1945
Lyricist
Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fit...

Hollywood Victory Caravan
1945
Lyricist
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

Anchors Aweigh
1945
Lyricist
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew...

Thrill of a Romance
1945
Songs
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

The All-Star Bond Rally
1945
Lyricist
Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits. Preserved by the Academy Fil...

Eadie Was a Lady
1945
Lyricist
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But tro...

Tonight and Every Night
1945
Lyricist
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

Carolina Blues
1944
Lyricist
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.

Janie
1944
Lyricist
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

Step Lively
1944
Lyricist
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.

Silent Partner
1944
Lyricist
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.

Follow the Boys
1944
Lyricist
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical ...

Knickerbocker Holiday
1944
Lyricist
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650...

Pistol Packin' Mama
1943
Lyricist
Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters ous...

The Heat's On
1943
Lyricist
Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest productio...

Let's Face It
1943
Lyricist
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three custo...

Thumbs Up
1943
Lyricist
In this wartime musical, a feisty singer working in a London dive swears that she will become a star. She gets a job in an airplane plant when she lea...

Lady of Burlesque
1943
Lyricist
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike a...

Johnny Doughboy
1942
Lyricist
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group o...

Youth on Parade
1942
Lyricist
In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal has everything a universi...

Go West, Young Lady
1941
Lyricist
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.

Time Out for Rhythm
1941
Lyricist
A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.

Rookies on Parade
1941
Story, Lyricist
The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending ...

Double or Nothing
1940
Lyricist
In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.

The Knight Is Young
1938
Lyricist
June never leaves her apartment, which has a view of an advertising sign of a knight in shining armor. She is two weeks behind in her rent and believe...

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
1937
Songs
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the g...
Ups and Downs
1937
Lyricist, Original Music Composer
An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.

Hotel a la Swing
1937
Songs
In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.