Biography

George Forrest and Robert Wright were writing partners for 72 years. Their collaboration on such indelible favorites as "Stranger In Paradise", "Night Of My Nights", "Sands Of Time", "Baubles, Bangles And Beads" and "And This Is My Beloved" from the 1953 Tony Award winning, Broadway musical "Kismet" and the 1978 Broadway musical revival "Timbuktu!" are remembered best today. Altogether, the pair wrote over 2,000 songs for the Broadway stage and motion pictures. Under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, they wrote a new score for the 1937 Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy classic; "Maytime."

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Composer, songwriter ("It's a Blue World", "Donkey Serenade", "Baubles, Bangles and Beads", "Strange Music", "And This Is My Beloved"), author, pianist and conductor who became a pianist aboard cruise ships, in night clubs and with dance orchestras (including his own) after high school. At 13, he partnered with Robert Wright as a team, contracting to MGM Studios for seven years. His Broadway stage scores include "Song of Norway" (based on Grieg), "Kismet" (Borodin), "Magdalena" (Villa Lobos), "Kean", and "Anya" (Rachmaninoff). He joined ASCAP in 1939, and his other musical collaborators included Walter Donaldson and Rudolf Friml. His other popular-song compositions include "Always and Always", "At the Balalaika", "Sweet Danger", "The Frog and the Grog", "Elena", "I Love You", "Now" and "Stranger In Paradise".

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