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    Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (/ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and...
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    Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who...
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    playwright/lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II and the father of theater manager William Hammerstein and American producer Arthur Hammerstein. Oscar Hammerstein I was born...
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  • Oscar Hammerstein may refer to: Oscar Hammerstein I (1846–1919), cigar manufacturer, opera impresario and theatre builder Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)...
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    designer and decorator. She was the second wife of the lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. Dorothy Marian Kiaora Blanchard was born to Henry James Blanchard...
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    songwriting partnerships, first with lyricist Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein II. With Hart he wrote musicals throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including...
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    The Oscar Hammerstein II Farm, also known as the Highland Farm, is an historic home and farm complex that is located in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania...
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  • Hammerstein was the son of interior designer Dorothy Hammerstein (née Blanchard) and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. He had four half-siblings, two through each...
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    in musical theater began at a young age, and he was mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II. He began his career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957)...
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    from the film Lady Be Good, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, won. Kern was upset that his song won because it had been published...
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  • "Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the...
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    Edelweiss (song) (category Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
    the final song of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical collaboration as well as the last lyric written by Oscar Hammerstein II, who died in August 1960. While...
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  • problem like Maria is equally intractable.[citation needed] When Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyric for this song, he followed the lead from a line in...
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  • Susan Blanchard (socialite) (category Hammerstein family (show business))
    former lyricist and theatrical producer. She was the stepdaughter of Oscar Hammerstein II, the third wife of actor Henry Fonda, with whom she adopted a daughter...
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  • the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir...
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    George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg. A native...
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  • Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II, among others. In Alec Wilder's 1972 study, American Popular Song:...
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  • Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical written for television, but later played on stage, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar...
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  • (1939) - lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II - from the musical Very Warm for May "All the Things You Are" (1939) - lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II - from Very Warm...
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  • The Sound of Music (song) (category Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
    written by Oscar Hammerstein II. The song introduces the character of Maria, a young novice in an Austrian abbey. In 1959, Rodgers and Hammerstein asked singer...
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  • The New Moon, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) "Desert Song" (from 1926 operetta The Desert Song, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach) "Deep...
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  • Herb Brown – 3 songs John Kander – 3 songs Jerome Kern – 3 songs Oscar Hammerstein II – 6 Ira Gershwin – 4 Irving Berlin – 3 Stephen Sondheim – 3 Arthur...
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  • The Sound of Music (category Musicals about World War II)
    Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the...
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  • the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard Dietz, Clifford...
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  • Oklahoma! (section Act II)
    had asked Oscar Hammerstein II to collaborate with him and Hart. During the tryouts of Rodgers and Hart's By Jupiter in 1941, Hammerstein had assured...
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    written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, in turn based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese...
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  • It Might as Well Be Spring (category Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
    original film score by the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. "It Might as Well Be Spring" won the Academy Award for Best Original...
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  • successes, beginning with Oklahoma! in 1943, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written two musicals in the 1950s that did not do well and sought...
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  • Morgan Creek Entertainment. Loosely based on Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1951 stage musical of the same name, it portrays a fictionalized...
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  • Carmen Jones (category Musicals about World War II)
    book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera Carmen updated to a World War II-era, African-American...
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