Nacio Herb Brown(1896-1964)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
In spite of the fact, that he only had been on a conservatory for only
short time, he was a very successful popular composer, who wrote with
lyricist and later producer Arthur Freed
not only the songs for MGM musical and non-musical films, e.g.
"Broadway Melody" for the movie "The Broadway Melody", "You Are My
Lucky Star" and "Broadway Rhythm" for "Broadway Melody of 1936",
"Temptation" for "Going Hollywood" and - best remembered - "Singin' in
the Rain" from "The Hollywood Revue of 1929", which became a classic in
the movie "Singin' in the Rain" in the version of
Gene Kelly. He also worked with
Richard A. Whiting and
Buddy G. DeSylva on the Broadway
Musical "Take a Chance."
