Mack Gordon

American pop lyricist Mack Gordon wrote hit songs for stage productions and, most often, for movies. He was involved in two important movie songwriting duos: with composer Harry Revel in the 1930s and with Harry Warren in the 1940s. Gordon was born in Warsaw, Poland, and moved to N.Y.C. with his parents while still a child, and grew up in Brooklyn and the Bronx. His start in show business came early, as a boy soprano in a minstrel show. Later, Gordon worked as a singing comic in vaudeville. When he started songwriting in the early '30s, Gordon teamed up with Revel and after writing for a few stage shows, the duo moved to Hollywood in 1933. From this point on, the team wrote numerous hits for films, including The Gay Divorcee (1934), Paris in Spring (1935), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Thanks for Everything (1938), and many more.