Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael Headshot

Pianist • Composer • Songwriter • Actor • Lawyer • Bandleader

Birth Date: November 22, 1899

Death Date: December 27, 1981 — 82 years old

Birth Place: Bloomington, Indiana

Spouses: Wanda McKay

IMDB

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.

Photos

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, from left, Hoagy Carmichael, Fredric March, Harold Russell, 1946JOHNNY ANGEL, from left, George Raft, Signe Hasso, Hoagy Carmichael, 1945THE LAS VEGAS STORY, Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Russell, 1952NIGHT SONG, Dana Andrews, Hoagy Carmichael, 1948NIGHT SONG, Hoagy Carmichael, Merle Oberon, 1948