FREED (originally Grossman), ARTHUR
- FREED (originally Grossman), ARTHUR
- FREED (originally Grossman), ARTHUR
(1894–1973), U.S. popular lyricist and producer of motion picture
musicals. Freed was born in Charleston, S.C., and grew up
in Seattle, Wash. He was a piano player for the music publishers
Waterman, Berlin, and Snyder (see Irving berlin ), toured the
Chicago area with the marx brothers for several months, and later
with Gus Edwards' vaudeville circuit for a year and a half. After army
service in 1917–19, Freed wrote his first popular song hit, "I Cried for
You, Now It's Your Turn to Cry over Me," with music by his partner,
Nacio Herb Brown. He and Brown produced revues at the Orange Grove
Theater using their own songs. Freed's work in motion pictures began
when he and Brown wrote the songs for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's and
Hollywood's first musical, Broadway Melody of 1929. In 1939
Freed produced, for MGM, Babes in Arms, the first of about 50
musicals, including Strike Up the Band (1940), Cabin in
the Sky (1943), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), On
the Town (1949), American in Paris (1951), and
Singin' in the Rain (1952),
the title of the last being a Freed song
originally performed in MGM's second musical,
Hollywood Revue.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
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