Roger Edens

Composer + Musician

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Born Nov 9, 1905

Died Jul 13, 1970

Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".

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Lena Horne, Singer Who Blazed Trail To Hollywood, Dies At 92
NYTimes - May 10, 2010

Lena Horne, who broke new ground for black performers when she signed a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night in Manhattan. She was 92. Her death, at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, was announced by her son-in-law, Kevin Buckley. She lived
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Film; The Man Who Made Musicals A Serious Business
NYTimes - Jun 29, 2003

NO sooner has King Oedipus wiped the blood from his eyes than he's tap-dancing up the palace steps. Like everyone else in the greatest of movie musicals, ''The Band Wagon'' (1953), he's a creature who forgets his wounds by putting on a killer show. If you think ''Chicago'' is dark and mordant for something with a lot of singing and dancing, then
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Adolph Green, Playwright And Lyricist Who Teamed With Comden, Dies At 87
NYTimes - Oct 25, 2002

Adolph Green, the playwright, performer and lyricist who in a six-decade collaboration with Betty Comden was co-author of such hit Broadway musicals as ''On the Town,'' ''Wonderful Town'' and ''Bells Are Ringing'' and screenplays for ''Singin' in the Rain'' and ''The Band Wagon,'' died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. Ms. Comden and
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Timeline

Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Roger Edens.

CHILDHOOD

1905 Birth Born in 1905.

TWENTIES

1932 27 Years Old Edens was born in Hillsboro, Texas. His parents were of Scots-Irish ancestry. He worked as a piano accompanist for ballroom dancers before going to work as a musical conductor on Broadway. He went to Hollywood in 1932 along with his protege Ethel Merman, writing and arranging her material for her films at Paramount.

THIRTIES

1935 30 Years Old In 1935, he joined MGM as a musical supervisor and occasional composer and arranger, notably of music for Judy Garland.

1936 31 Years Old He also appeared on screen opposite Eleanor Powell in a cameo in Broadway Melody of 1936. … Read More

FORTIES

1951 46 Years Old … He also produced a number of films after the mid-1950s and wrote special material for Garland's Palace Theatre debut in 1951 and for her London Palladium concerts the same year. Edens and Kay Thompson shared the same birthday (November 9). From 1942 through 1957 they gave joint birthday parties during which each presented a surprise production number using special material which featured their friends— Garland, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Dorothy Dandridge, Maureen O'Hara, Ray Bolger, Ann Sothern, Danny Kaye, Charles Walters, Cole Porter, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane among others—each never telling the other while rehearsing what the other was planning to present. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1970 65 Years Old Edens died of cancer in Los Angeles, California on July 13, 1970. … Read More

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