Twenty Million Sweethearts

Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for... the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, 42nd Street, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films. Over a career spanning four decades, Warren wrote over 800 songs. Other well-known Warren hits included "I Only Have Eyes for You", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "Jeepers Creepers", "The Gold Diggers' Song ", "That's Amore", "The More I See You", "At Last" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo" . Warren was one of America's most prolific film composers,and his songs have been featured in over 300 films. Warren was born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, one of eleven children of Italian immigrants Antonio and Rachel De Luca Guaragna, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
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