Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn

1913-06-18 Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA 79 Credits

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 ...

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Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time

1990

Acting

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

The Perils of P.K

1986

10.0
Acting

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

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years

1979

as Self

Acting

Gala tribute to the Chairman of the Board.

Once Upon a Brothers Grimm

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

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as Himself - Host

6.9
Acting

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

Joys

1976

as Self

4.0
Acting

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

Journey Back to Oz

1972

Songs

5.5

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

The Night the Animals Talked

1970

Lyricist

6.0

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

Thoroughly Modern Millie

1967

Lyricist

6.9

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

Jack and the Beanstalk

1967

Lyricist

7.2

A retelling of the popular fairy tale that mixes live action and animation.

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Robin and the 7 Hoods

1964

Songs

6.1

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

How the West Was Won

1962

Lyricist

7.0

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

The Road to Hong Kong

1962

Songs

5.7

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

Big Night Out: The Peggy Lee Show

1961

Acting

Peggy Lee hosts an all-star cast and sings a number of her signature songs.

High Time

High Time

1960

Lyricist

5.9

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

Let's Make Love

1960

Lyricist

6.4

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

Ocean's Eleven

1960

Songs

6.4

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

Say One for Me

Say One for Me

1959

Songs

4.8

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

Party Girl

1958

Lyricist

6.8

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

The Long, Hot Summer

1958

Lyricist

7.1

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

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

The Greer Case

1957

Musician

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex

1956

Lyricist

5.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pardners

1956

Songs

6.7

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

Anything Goes

1956

Lyricist

6.0

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

The Court Jester

1955

Songs

7.3

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

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

How To Be Very, Very Popular

1955

Lyricist

4.7

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

The Seven Year Itch

1955

Lyricist

7.1

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

Love Me or Leave Me

1955

Songs

6.7

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

Three Sailors and a Girl

1953

Producer

6.0
Producing

A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1953

Lyricist

7.2

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

Double Dynamite

1951

Lyricist

6.2

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

Purple Heart Diary

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

The West Point Story

1950

Songs

5.8

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

I'll Get By

I'll Get By

1950

Lyricist

5.6

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

It's a Great Feeling

1949

Lyricist

5.9

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

Romance on the High Seas

1948

Songs, Lyricist

6.8

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

The Miracle of the Bells

1948

Lyricist

5.9

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

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

It Happened in Brooklyn

1947

Lyricist

6.0

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

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

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

1946

Lyricist

6.0

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

The Falcon's Alibi

1946

Lyricist

5.2

A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.

The Kid from Brooklyn

The Kid from Brooklyn

1946

Lyricist, Original Music Composer

6.2

Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspaper...

Cinderella Jones

Cinderella Jones

1946

Lyricist

3.3

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

The Stork Club

The Stork Club

1945

Lyricist

5.0

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

Hollywood Victory Caravan

1945

Lyricist

5.2

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

Anchors Aweigh

1945

Lyricist

6.8

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

Thrill of a Romance

1945

Songs

6.2

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

The All-Star Bond Rally

1945

Lyricist

5.0

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

Eadie Was a Lady

1945

Lyricist

4.0

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

Tonight and Every Night

1945

Lyricist

5.2

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

Carolina Blues

Carolina Blues

1944

Lyricist

5.3

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

Janie

Janie

1944

Lyricist

5.5

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

Step Lively

Step Lively

1944

Lyricist

6.0

Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.

Silent Partner

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

Follow the Boys

1944

Lyricist

5.3

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

Knickerbocker Holiday

1944

Lyricist

5.0

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

Pistol Packin' Mama

1943

Lyricist

5.0

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

The Heat's On

1943

Lyricist

3.9

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

Let's Face It

1943

Lyricist

4.5

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

Thumbs Up

1943

Lyricist

6.0

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

Lady of Burlesque

1943

Lyricist

5.3

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

Johnny Doughboy

1942

Lyricist

5.4

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

Youth on Parade

1942

Lyricist

3.5

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

Go West, Young Lady

1941

Lyricist

6.9

A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.

Time Out for Rhythm

Time Out for Rhythm

1941

Lyricist

6.2

A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.

Rookies on Parade

Rookies on Parade

1941

Story, Lyricist

Writing

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

Double or Nothing

1940

Lyricist

5.0

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

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

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

1937

Songs

6.0

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

6.3

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

Hotel a la Swing

1937

Songs

6.0

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