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'''Mack Gordon''' (born '''Morris Gittler''', [[21 June]] [[1904]] - [[1 March]] [[1959]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[composer]] and [[lyricist]] of songs for [[musical theatre|the stage]] and [[musical film|film]]. He was nominated for the best original song [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "[[You'll Never Know]]". That song has proved amongst his most enduring and remains popular in films and television commercials to this day. "At Last" is perhaps his most famous song today.
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Gordon was born in [[Warsaw]] and moved to [[New York City]] as a child. He appeared as [[vaudeville]] actor and singer in the late 20s and early 30s but his songwriting talents were always paramount. He formed a partnership with English [[pianist]] [[Harry Revel]] that lasted throughout the 1930s. In the 1940s he worked with a string of other composers including [[Harry Warren]].
The Internet Movie Database states that Gordon's songs have been used in the soundtrack of over 100 films, Gordon writing specifically for at least 50 of them. His catalogue includes more than 120 songs and thus is perhaps no surprise that his exhibit in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame say he is "arguably one of the most successful lyricists to write for the screen".
==Selected songs==
*"A Lady Loves"
*"A Star Fell Out of Heaven"
*"A Tree Was a Tree"
*"All About Love"
*"An Old Straw Hat"
*"An Orchid to You"
*"[[At Last]]"
*"Baby, Won’t You Say You Love Me"
*"[[Chattanooga Choo-Choo]]"
*"Cigaretts, Cigars"
*"Danger, Love at Work"
*"Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?"
*"Doin' the Uptown Lowdown"
*"From the Top of Your Head to the Tip of Your Toes"
*"Goodnight, My Love"
*"Help Yourself to Happiness"
*"I Can't Begin to Tell You"
*"I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze"
*"[[I Had the Craziest Dream]]"
*"I Played Fiddle for the Czar"
*"I've Got a Date With a Dream"
*"I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo"
*"If You Feel Like Singing, Sing"
*"In Old Chicago"
*"[[It Happened In Sun Valley]]"
*"It Happens Every Spring"
*"It Was a Night in June"
*"It's Swell of You"
*"Listen to the German Band"
*"Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie"
*"Love Thy Neighbor"
*"[[Mam'selle]]"
*"May I?"
*"My Heart is an Open Book"
*"My Heart Tells Me"
*"On the Boardwalk at Atlantic City"
*"Once in a Blue Moon"
*"Once Too Often"
*"Paris in the Spring"
*"Serenade in Blue"
*"She Reminds Me of You"
*"Somebody Soon"
*"Somewhere in the Night"
*"Sunny Southern Smile"
*"Takes Two to Make a Bargain"
*"Thanks for Everything"
*"The More I See You"
*"There Will Never Be Another You"
*"Through a Long and Sleepless Night"
*"Time on My Hands"
*"Underneath the Harlem Moon"
*"What Did I Do"
*"When I'm With You"
*"Wilhelmina"
*"Without a Word of Warning"
*"[[With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming]]"
*"You Do"
*"You Make Me Feel So Young"
*"You Say the Sweetest Things Baby"
*"[[You'll Never Know]]"
==Original Works for Broadway==
*''Fast and Furious'' (1931) - [[revue]] - primary [[lyricist]]
*''Smiling Faces'' (1932) - [[Musical theater|musical]] - [[lyricist]]
*''Strike Me Pink'' (1933) - [[revue]] - contributing [[dialogue]]-writer
==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330418/ Gordon's entry in the IMDb]
*[http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=220 Gordon's entry in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame]
*[http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=12906 Mack Gordon] at the [[Internet Broadway Database]]
[[Category:1904 births|Gordon, Mack]]
[[Category:1959 deaths|Gordon, Mack]]
[[Category:Best Song Academy Award winning songwriters|Gordon, Mack]]
[[Category:American songwriters|Gordon, Mack]]
[[Category:American composers|Gordon, Mack]]
[[Category:Jewish American musicians|Gordon, Mack]]
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