Writing

Jack Yellen

Born — Died

1892-07-06 — 1991-04-17

Place of birth

Raczki, Poland

Known for

Writing

Credits

13 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń; July 6, 1892 – April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for writing the lyrics to the songs "Happy Days Are Here Again", which was used by Franklin Roosevelt as the theme song for his successful 1932 presidential campaign, and "Ain't She Sweet", a Tin Pan Alley standard. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school. He graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1913 whe…

Known for

Wake Up and Live poster
6.2

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Wake Up and Live

1937

George White's 1935 Scandals poster
7.0

A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.

George White's 1935 Scandals

1935

Hold That Co-ed poster
6.7

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Hold That Co-ed

1938

You Can't Have Everything poster
6.5

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

You Can't Have Everything

1937

Sing, Baby, Sing poster
6.0

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).

Sing, Baby, Sing

1936

Love Is News poster
6.3

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.

Love Is News

1937

Behind the camera

Wake Up and Live poster
6.2

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Wake Up and Live

1937

George White's 1935 Scandals poster
7.0

A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.

George White's 1935 Scandals

1935

Hold That Co-ed poster
6.7

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Hold That Co-ed

1938

You Can't Have Everything poster
6.5

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

You Can't Have Everything

1937

Sing, Baby, Sing poster
6.0

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).

Sing, Baby, Sing

1936

Love Is News poster
6.3

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.

Love Is News

1937

Ali Baba Goes to Town poster
6.0

While visiting Hollywood, starstruck movie fan Aloysius Babson fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure.

Ali Baba Goes to Town

1937

Pigskin Parade poster
6.0

Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. The hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.

Pigskin Parade

1936

Little Miss Broadway poster
6.5

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.

Little Miss Broadway

1938

Sally, Irene and Mary poster
6.4

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Sally, Irene and Mary

1938

My Lucky Star poster
5.9

George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.

My Lucky Star

1938

Submarine Patrol poster
6.7

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

Submarine Patrol

1938

Evelyn Nesbit: Live at Bilgray's Garden poster
NR

A short film of Evelyn Nesbit singing Jack Yellen and Lew Pollack's song "No Man's Mama" at Bilgray's Garden in Panama, June 1930. She performs the song three different times.

Evelyn Nesbit: Live at Bilgray's Garden

1930