Jimmy Van Heusen

Composer

Birthday January 26, 1913

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace New York

DEATH DATE Feb 6, 1990 (77)

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About

Composed Come Fly with Me, High Hopes, and Love and Marriage. He won an Emmy and four Best Original Song Oscars.

Before Fame

He attended Cazenovia College and Syracuse University. He wrote It's the Dreamer in Me with Jimmy Dorsey.

Trivia

He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971. He composed more than 800 songs.

Family Life

He married Bobbe Brox in 1969.

Associated With

He frequently collaborated with Sammy Cahn. They won three Academy Awards together, for All the Way from 1957, High Hopes from 1959, and Call Me Irresponsible from 1963.