Robert Emmett Dolan(1908-1972)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Producer
Composer, songwriter ("A Home in the Meadow"), film executive and
conductor, educated at Loyola College (on scholarship) and a piano
student of his mother, and later, Letonal, Mortimer Wilson, Joseph
Schillinger, and Ernst Toch. He became music director for MGM in 1941,
and also was the music director for the Broadway productions "Good
News", "Follow Through", "Flying Colors", "Strike Me Pink", "Hot-Cha",
"May Wine", "Hooray for What", "La Rose De France" (Paris), "Leave It
to Me", "Very Warm for May", and "Louisiana Purchase". In addition, he
wrote the Broadway stage scores for "Texas, Li'l Darlin" and "Foxy".
Joining ASCAP in 1946, his chief musical collaborators included Johnny
Mercer and Walter O'Keefe, and his other popular-song compositions
include "Your Heart Will Tell You So", "At Last I'm in Love", "Little
By Little", "Hullabaloo", "Song of the Highwayman", "You", "Out of the
Past", "I Love You", "And So to Bed", "Glamour Waltz", "Big Movie Show
in the Sky", "A Month of Sundays", and "Talk to Me,
Baby".