Acting
Hoagy Carmichael
1899-1981
Known for To Have and Have Not, The Best Years of Our Lives, Young Man with a Horn.
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Born11/22/1899
Died12/27/1981
AgeDied at 82
BirthplaceBloomington, Indiana, USA
DepartmentActing
Also known asHoward Hoagland Carmichael
Biography
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.
