Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael Headshot

Pianist • Composer • Songwriter • Actor • Lawyer • Bandleader

Birth Date: November 22, 1899

Death Date: December 27, 1981

Birth Place: Bloomington, Indiana

Spouses: Wanda McKay

Tin Pan Alley legend who began composing for films in 1936 and won an Academy Award for "In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening" in 1951. As an actor he usually played himself, sitting at a piano, smoking a cigarette and singing a song.