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| - American composer of popular music (aka Sam E. Fein). Born: 17 June 1902 in NYC, New York, USA. Died: 6 December 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA (aged 87). Fain worked extensively in collaboration with Irving Kahal. Together they wrote classics such as %22Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella%22. Another lyricist who collaborated with Fain was Lew Brown, with whom he wrote %22That Old Feeling%22. His Broadway credits also include %22Everybody's Welcome%22, %22Right This Way%22, %22Hellzapoppin'%22, %22I'll Be Seeing You%22, %22Flahooley%22, %22Ankles Aweigh%22, %22Christine%22, and %22Something More%22. Fain also composed music for more than 30 films in the 1930s to 1950s. He was nominated for the best Original Song Oscar nine times, winning twice, with %22Secret Love%22 from %22Calamity Jane%22 in 1954 and with %22Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing%22 from the movie of the same title in 1955. Fain wrote the second theme to the TV series %22Wagon Train%22 in 1958, which was called %22(Roll Along) Wagon Train%22. He co-wrote both songs with Paul Francis Webster, another long-time collaborator. He also contributed to the song scores for the animated films %22[r=1912661]%22 (1951), and other Walt Disney films %22Peter Pan%22 (1963), and %22The Rescuers%22 (1977). Fain died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, and is interred at Cedar Park Cemetery, in Emerson, New Jersey. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1972.
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