1. Vincent Millie Youmans was an American Broadway composer and producer.
20 Facts About Vincent Youmans
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Vincent Youmans published fewer than 100 songs, but 18 of these were considered standards by ASCAP, a remarkably high percentage.
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Vincent Youmans was born in New York City, United States, into a prosperous family of hat makers.
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Vincent Youmans attended the Trinity School in Mamaroneck, New York, and Heathcote Hall in Rye, New York.
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Vincent Youmans's ambition was initially to become an engineer, and he attended Yale University for a short time.
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Vincent Youmans dropped out to become a runner for a Wall Street brokerage firm, but was drafted in the Navy during World War I, although he saw no combat.
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Vincent Youmans's next show was Wildflower, with lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, which was a major success.
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Vincent Youmans's most enduring success was No, No, Nanette, with lyrics by Irving Caesar, which reached Broadway in 1925 after an unprecedented try-out in Chicago and subsequent national and international tours.
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Vincent Youmans left his publisher TB Harms Company and began publishing his own songs.
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In 1933, Vincent Youmans wrote the songs for Flying Down to Rio, the first film to feature Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as a featured dancing pair.
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Vincent Youmans spent the remainder of his life battling the disease.
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Vincent Youmans married chorus girl Anne Varley on February 7,1927.
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Vincent Youmans stopped contesting the divorce, and it was granted on November 25,1933.
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Vincent Youmans was an alcoholic and a member of the Lost Generation.
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Vincent Youmans was a lifelong heavy drinker and partier and well-known for womanizing.
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Vincent Youmans married chorus girl Mildred Boots on October 22,1935.
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Vincent Youmans filed for divorce, citing grounds of "mental cruelty", in Reno, Nevada, on January 19,1946.
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Vincent Youmans died of tuberculosis on April 5,1946, at a hotel in Denver, Colorado.
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At the time of his death, Vincent Youmans left behind a large quantity of unpublished material.
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In 1970, Vincent Youmans was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.