Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director.
12 Facts About Saul Chaplin
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Saul Chaplin was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.
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Saul Chaplin had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley.
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Cahn and Saul Chaplin relocated to Hollywood and scored two films for Universal Pictures.
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Saul Chaplin then moved to Columbia Pictures to score Cover Girl and The Jolson Story.
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For collaborating on such hits as Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen and Please Be Kind, Saul Chaplin was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Saul Chaplin won Academy Awards for his work on the scores of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, An American in Paris and West Side Story as well as nominations for Kiss Me Kate and High Society.
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Saul Chaplin published his autobiography, The Golden Age of Movie Musicals and Me, in 1994.
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Saul Chaplin had worked with and was friends with most of the major songwriters and performers of his era, such as Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Al Jolson, Leonard Bernstein, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Julie Andrews, Frank Sinatra and others.
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Saul Chaplin's memoir focused on the behind the scenes aspect of moviemaking.
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Saul Chaplin married Ethel Schwartz and had one child, a daughter Judith ; the couple divorced in 1950.
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In 1968, Saul Chaplin married Betty Levin, who had worked as script supervisor on The Sound of Music.