Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter.
10 Facts About Leo Robin
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Leo Robin is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938, and with Jule Styne on "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," a song whose witty, Cole Porter style of lyric came to be identified with its famous interpreter Marilyn Monroe.
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Leo Robin studied at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and at Carnegie Tech's drama school.
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Leo Robin later worked as a reporter and as a publicist.
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In 1932, Leo Robin went out to Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures.
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Leo Robin collaborated with Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938, which was to become Hope's signature tune.
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Leo Robin collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Styne, then officially retired from the movie industry.
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Leo Robin is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1972.
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Leo Robin died of heart failure in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 84, and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Posthumous credits or shows in which pre-written songs by Leo Robin were featured include:.