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George Gard "Buddy" DeSylva (
January 27 1895 -
July 11 1950) was an
American songwriter. He was born in
New York City, but grew up in California and attended the
University of Southern California. His father, Aloysius J. De Sylva, was better known to American audiences as the
Portuguese-born actor,
Hal De Forrest.
DeSylva's first successful songs were those used by
Al Jolson on Broadway in the 1918 +Sinbad production, which included "I'll Say She Does." Soon thereafter he met Jolson and in 1918, the pair went to New York and De Sylva began working as a songwriter at
Tin Pan Alley. In 1925, he became one third of the songwriting team DeSylva, lyricist
Brown and composer
Henderson, one of the top
Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the era. The writing and publishing partnership continued until 1930. The 1956
Hollywood film
The Best Things in Life are Free, starring
Gordon MacRae, depicted the life of the DeSylva, Brown and Henderson team.
De Sylva joined
ASCAP in 1920 and served on the ASCAP board of directors between 1922 and 1930. He became a producer of
stage and
screen musicals. DeSylva relocated to Hollywood and went under contract to
Fox Studios. During this tenure, he produced movies such as
The Little Colonel,
The Littlest Rebel,
Captain January,
Poor Little Rich Girl and
Stowaway. In 1941, he became the Executive Producer at
Paramount Pictures, a position he'd hold until 1944. At Paramount, he was also an uncredited executive producer for
Double Indemnity and
The Glass Key.
The movie
Star Spangled Rhythm, which takes place at the Paramount film studio in Hollywood, features a fictional movie executive named "B.G. DeSoto" (played by
Walter Abel) who is a parody of DeSylva.
In 1942,
Johnny Mercer,
Glenn Wallichs and De Sylva together founded
Capitol Records, which continues to this day. He also founded the
Cowboy label
He is sometimes credited as: Buddy De Sylva, Buddy DeSylva, Bud De Sylva and B.G. DeSylva.
Buddy De Sylva died in Hollywood, aged 55, and was buried in the
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in
Glendale, California.
Broadway credits
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