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Born William Samuel Rosenberg in New York City, he began his career as a lyricist, best known writing or co-writing the lyrics to "Me and My Shadow", "Great Day" (with Edward Eliscu), "Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight" (with Marty Bloom), "I Found a Million Dollar Baby" (with Mort Dixon), and "It's Only a Paper Moon" (with E. Y. Harburg).
Most of his Rose's lyrics credits were collaborations. Biographer Earl Conrad says "Nobody clearly knew what he wrote or didn't write.... Publisher tend to credit him with writing the songs known to bear his name as a lyricist.... But tales rumble on... that Billy could feed and toss in a remark and monkey around, but that others did most of the writing." Lyricists might have been willing to tolerate a Rose credit grab because Rose was very successful at promoting "his" songs
He went on to become a Broadway producer, and a theatre/nightclub owner. He produced " Jumbo," starring Jimmy Durante at the New York Hippodrome Theatre . For Fort Worth Frontier Days, he constructed the huge elaborate dinner theatre, "Casa Manana," featuring stripper Sally Rand and the world's largest revolving stage.
At the 1939 New York World's Fair, "Billy Rose's Aquacade" starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called "a brilliant 'girl' show of spectacular size and content." He married Holm shortly thereafter, divorcing his first wife, comedienne Fanny Brice.
In 1943, he produced Carmen Jones with an all-black cast. An adaptation of George Bizet's opera CarmenCarmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet, with text by Meilhac and Halevy, based on the novel by Prosper Merimee. Its first production was in Paris in 1875. During its time, the opera was considered a failure, denounced as “immoral” and “superficial., the story was transplanted to World War II America by lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. It was an instant hit. The Telegraph called it "far and away the best show in New York," the Times said it was "beautifully done...just call it wonderful," and the Herald Tribune said that Oscar Hammerstein IIOscar Hammerstein II ( July 12, 1895 August 23, 1960) was a writer and producer of musical comedies for almost forty years. His grandfather, Oscar Hammerstein I, was an opera impresario, and his uncle was a successful Broadway producer. While a college st "must be considered one of the greatest librettists of our day" and that Carmen Jones was "a masterly tour de force." It was made into a motion picture in 1954See also 1953 in film 1954 1955 in film 1950s in film years in film film Events May 12 The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda. The two were married in 1927. Top grossing films :North America # White Christmas starring Bing Crosby, Danny, for which Dorothy DandridgeDorothy Dandridge ( November 9, 1923 September 8, 1965) was an American actress. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Dandridge began singing in her church's choir and, with th received an Academy Award nomination.
Billy Rose founded the Billy Rose Sculpture Garden in JerusalemCapitals in Asia For alternate uses see Jerusalem (disambiguation Jerusalem ( Modern Hebrew: Yerushalayim Biblical Hebrew: Arabic: al-Quds see also Names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christ.
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