Jule Styne was an English-American songwriter and composer best known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that became successful films: Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Funny Girl.
10 Facts About Jule Styne
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Jule Styne proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old.
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In 1929, Jule Styne was playing with the Ben Pollack band.
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Jule Styne collaborated with Leo Robin on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen.
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Jule Styne wrote original music for the short-lived themed amusement park Freedomland USA that opened on June 19,1960.
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Jule Styne's collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Hilliard, and Bob Merrill.
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Jule Styne wrote career-altering Broadway scores for a wide variety of major stars, including Phil Silvers, Carol Channing, Mary Martin, Judy Holliday, Ethel Merman, and an up-and-coming Barbra Streisand.
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Jule Styne was the subject of This Is Your Life for British television in 1978 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in New York's Time Square.
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Jule Styne died of heart failure in New York City at the age of 88.
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Jule Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was a recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990.