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Biography

He was born in New York City, the son of Myron Lawrence Webster and Blanche Pauline Stonehill Webster. He attended the Horace Mann School (Riverdale, Bronx, New York), graduating in 1926, and then went to Cornell University from 1927 to 1928 and New York University from 1928 to 1930, leaving without receiving a degree. He served in the United States Navy and then became a dance instructor at a studio in New York City. By 1931, however, he turned his career direction to writing song lyrics. His first professional lyric was Masquerade (words by John Jacob Loeb) which became a hit in 1932, performed by Paul Whiteman. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Horace Mann School may refer to: Horace Mann School (New York City), prestigious college preparatory school founded in 1887 Horace Mann Elementary School (Oak Park, Illinois), local primary school This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Riverdale is a well-to-do residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx in New York City. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cornell University is a research university whose main campus is located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York, and whose two medical campuses are located in New York City and in Education City, Qatar, near Doha. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. ... Paul Whiteman (March 28, 1890 - December 29, 1967) was a popular United States orchestral leader. ...

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After 1950, Webster worked mostly for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won two Academy Awards in collaboration with Sammy Fain, in 1953 and 1955, and another with Johnny Mandel in 1965. Altogether, sixteen of his songs received Academy Award nominations, more than the number for any other lyricist. In addition, a large number of his songs became major hits on the popular music charts. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Sammy Fain (Samuel Feinberg, June 17, 1902 - December 6, 1989) was an Jewish-American composer of popular music. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Johnny Mandel (born November 23, 1925, New York) is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Academy Award for Best Song // 1930s 1934 - The Continental from The Gay Divorcee 1935 Lullaby of Broadway from Gold Diggers of 1935 1936 The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time 1937 Sweet Leilani from Waikiki Wedding 1938 - Thanks for the Memory from The Big Broadcast of 1938 1939 Over... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ...

He was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1972. The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

He died in Beverly Hills, California and is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California. Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, almost entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. ...

List of Songs

Songs by Paul Francis Webster that won the Academy Award for Best Song

• "Secret Love" (1953)
• "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955)
• "The Shadow of Your Smile" (1965)

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Nominated for the award

• "A Very Precious Love" (1958)
• "Tender is the Night" (1962)
• "A Time for Love" (1966)
• "Strange Are The Ways of Love" (1972)
• "A World that Never Was" (1976)

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Songs winning Grammy Awards for best song of the year

• "The Shadow of Your Smile" (1966)

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Other songs with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

• "A Certain Smile"
• "Anastasia"
• "April Love"
• "Baltimore Oriole"
• "Black Coffee"
• "Black Hills Of Dakota"
• "Boy On A Dolphin"
• "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief"
• "Friendly Persuasion"
• "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)"
• "How It Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies!"
• "Maverick"
• "My Moonlight Madonna"
• "Padre"
• "Rainbow On The River"
• "Spider-Man"
• "The Lamplighter's Serenade"
• "The Loveliest Night Of The Year"
• "There's Never Been Anyone Else But You"
• "The Song Of Raintree County"
• "The Twelfth Of Never"
• "Two Cigarettes In The Dark"
• "You Was"
• "The First Snowfall"

Song Compilation

"The Songs Of Paul Francis Webster" (ISBN 0793506654)

References

Hill, Tony L. "Paul Francis Webster, 1907-1984," in Dictionary of Literary Biography 265. Detroit: Gale Research, 2002.

External reference

Paul Francis Webster's Songwriters' Hall of Fame page