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Paul Webster - Turner Classic Movies

Paul Webster


Lyricist

About

Also Known As
Paul Francis Webster, Paul F. Webster
Born
December 20, 1907
Died
March 22, 1984
Cause of Death
Parkinson's Disease

Notes

Webster earned 16 Oscar nominations in his career.

Biography

Filmography

 

Writer (Feature Film)

Nora Prentiss (1947)
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Music (Feature Film)

Marriage Story (2019)
Song
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Song
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Song
The Shape of Water (2017)
Song
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Song
Blended (2014)
Song
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Song
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Song
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Song
Lady in the Water (2006)
Song
Rumor Has It... (2005)
Song
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Composer
The Human Stain (2003)
Composer
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Song
Brown Sugar (2002)
Song
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Composer
Last Resort (2000)
Song ("Theme From Spiderman")
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Song
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Song
The Story of Us (1999)
Song
Hope Floats (1998)
Song
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Song
Picture Perfect (1997)
Song ("Anastasia")
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Song
Miami Rhapsody (1995)
Song
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Song
Crossing the Bridge (1992)
Song
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Song
For the Boys (1991)
Song
Cookie (1989)
Song
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Songs ("Secret Love" "A Very Special Love")
Before Stonewall (1985)
Song
Shifshuf Naim (1981)
Song ("Love Is A Many Splendored Thing")
Heart Beat (1980)
Song
Rough Cut (1980)
Song
The Magician of Lublin (1979)
Title Song ("The Magician")
Grease (1978)
Song
The Specialist (1975)
Song
Dr. Minx (1975)
Song ("The Dark Side Of Love")
The Parallax View (1974)
Song
Mr. Sycamore (1974)
Lyrics ("As Time Goes By")
The Teacher (1974)
Song
The Stepmother (1972)
Composer
The Seven Minutes (1971)
Composer
Heaven With a Gun (1969)
Composer
Mingus (1968)
Composer
Three Bites of the Apple (1967)
Composer
Made in Paris (1966)
Composer
An American Dream (1966)
Composer
The Sandpiper (1965)
Composer
Joy in the Morning (1965)
Composer
Sylvia (1965)
Composer
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Composer
Tender Is the Night (1962)
Composer
El Cid (1961)
Love theme
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Composer
The Alamo (1960)
Composer
Cimarron (1960)
Composer
Green Mansions (1959)
Composer
Beloved Infidel (1959)
Composer
The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
Composer
Imitation of Life (1959)
Composer
The Big Circus (1959)
Composer
Rio Bravo (1959)
Composer
Seven Hills of Rome (1958)
Composer
A Certain Smile (1958)
Composer
The Gift of Love (1958)
Composer
Mardi Gras (1958)
Composer
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Composer
Interlude (1957)
Composer
Raintree County (1957)
Composer
Let's Be Happy (1957)
Composer
Man on Fire (1957)
Composer
Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
Composer
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
Composer
Giant (1956)
Composer
Hollywood or Bust (1956)
Composer
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Composer
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
Composer
Timberjack (1955)
Composer
Battle Cry (1955)
Composer
Sincerely Yours (1955)
Composer
Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)
Composer
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Composer
Young at Heart (1954)
Composer
His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)
Composer
Rose Marie (1954)
Composer
Lucky Me (1954)
Composer
The Student Prince (1954)
Composer
Blowing Wild (1953)
Composer
Calamity Jane (1953)
Composer
Because You're Mine (1952)
Composer
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
Composer
The Merry Widow (1952)
Composer
Fearless Fagan (1952)
Composer
The Daltons' Women (1951)
Composer
The Great Caruso (1951)
Composer
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
Composer
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Composer
A Scandal in Paris (1946)
Composer
A Scandal in Paris (1946)
Composer
How Doooo You Do!!! (1945)
Composer
I'll Remember April (1945)
Composer
Johnny Angel (1945)
Composer
I'll Tell the World (1945)
Composer
The Stork Club (1945)
Composer
Minstrel Man (1944)
Composer
Destiny (1944)
Composer
Thousands Cheer (1944)
Composer
Ghost Catchers (1944)
Composer
The National Barn Dance (1944)
Composer
Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Composer
Hit the Ice (1943)
Composer
It Ain't Hay (1943)
Composer
Klondike Kate (1943)
Composer
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Composer
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Composer
Seven Sweethearts (1942)
Composer
Shooting High (1940)
Composer
Everything's on Ice (1939)
Composer
Fisherman's Wharf (1939)
Composer
Breaking the Ice (1938)
Composer
Make a Wish (1937)
Composer
Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937)
Composer
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)
Composer
Rainbow on the River (1936)
Composer
Bad Boy (1935)
Composer
Under the Pampas Moon (1935)
Composer
Our Little Girl (1935)
Composer
Dressed to Thrill (1935)
Composer

Music (Special)

Michael Feinstein & Friends (1991)
Song

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) They Call Me Sweet Loretta Introducing leading WWII pinup Carole Landis in one of her first post-war pictures, fugitives George Sanders and Akim Tamiroff (as the historical figure and central character Vidocq, and sidekick Emile) are persuaded she’s worth a look, in Marseilles ca. 1805, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946, from producer Arnold Pressburger.
Raintree County (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits After the Overture, with Nat "King" Cole singing the theme, the opening credits for director Edward Dmytryk's sprawling Civil War epic Raintree County, 1957, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Eva Marie Saint.
Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Villa Count Danilo (Fernando Lamas), with his welcoming crew in lowly Marshovia caught unawares as the rich widow Radek (Lana Turner) arrives from America, Sujata his Gypsy partner, with Paul Francis Webster’s lyric to a tune (“Vilja”) from the original Franz Lehar operetta, staged by Jack Cole, produced by Joe Pasternak for MGM, in The Merry Widow, 1952.
Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Night Not quite able to see Lana Turner (title character, the visiting American widow Radek) in the dark, Count Danilo (Fernando Lamas), enlisted by his king to seduce her and her millions home to tiny Marshovia, offers the song from the Franz Lehar operetta, English lyric by Paul Francis Webster, in MGM’s The Merry Widow, 1952.
Johnny Angel (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Memphis In June Angel (George Raft) and Paulette (Signe Hasso) have just reconciled in the murder-mystery plot, thus the occasion for his driver, the philosophical Celestial O'Brien (Hoagy Carmichael) to offer what was then a new song, his tune with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, in Johnny Angel, 1946.Johnny Angel, 1946.
Rio Bravo (1959) -- (Movie Clip) My Rifle, My Pony and Me One expects the specialty number ("My Rifle, My Pony and Me," Dimitri Tiomkin and Paul Francis Webster) for Dude (Dean Martin) and Colorado (Ricky Nelson), but maybe not the encore with Stumpy (Walter Brennan) in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, 1959.
Calamity Jane (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Deadwood Stage Full throttle opening, original tune by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, Chubby Johnson is the driver and Howard Keel appears as Wild Bill but all are spectators to the star, Doris Day in the title role in the 1953 Warner Bros. hit Calamity Jane.
Calamity Jane (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Do Without You Doris Day (title character), with saloon owner Miller (Paul Harvey) and maybe-boyfriend Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), laments having promised to bring a big-time singer to Deadwood, inducing another original by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, in Calamity Jane, 1953.
Calamity Jane (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Secret Love Having replaced her rough buckskins with a softer cleaner set, with a new hairdo and Joel McCrea's horse, which he loaned to her for the picture, Doris Day (title character) offers the Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster original that became one of her signature songs, in Calamity Jane, 1953.
Let's Be Happy (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going To Scotland Early on, Vermonter Jeannie (Vera-Ellen) has just executed the will of her late Scottish grandfather, finding a pile of cash, and performing I'm Going To Scotland, by Nicholas Brodszky and Paul Francis Webster, in Let's Be Happy, 1957.
Let's Be Happy (1957) -- (Movie Clip) The Man From Idaho At what's supposed to be a posh Edinburgh hotel, American tourist Jeannie (Vera-Ellen) is swooning over Idahoan Stanley Smith (Tony Martin), even as he breaks their date, in Let's Be Happy, 1957.
Lucky Me (1954) -- (Movie Clip) High Hopes Out of work and forced to take hotel kitchen jobs, song and dance team Candy, Flo, Duke and Hap (Doris Day, Nancy Walker, Phil Silvers and Eddie Foy Jr.,) with a number by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, Leroy Prinz with choreography, in the Warner Bros. musical Lucky Me, 1954.

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Notes

Webster earned 16 Oscar nominations in his career.