Pop lyricist Jack Yellen was most active during the 1920s and '30s, composing scores with songwriting partner Milton Ager for Broadway and later writing screenplays for Hollywood. Born in Poland in 1892, Yellen came to the U.S. at the age of five and eventually attended the University of Michigan. After graduation, he worked for a short time as a N.Y. newspaper reporter before taking up songwriting in the early '10s. He started out writing for vaudevillian Sophie Tucker and came up with one of...
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