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George Marion Jr.

b. 30 August 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 25 Feb 1968, NEW YORK, NY, USA. The boy of actor-director George F. Marion, he was informed in Switzerland with Harvard. In the 20s he had written silent film game titles, finding a 1929 Oscar nomination. For early talkies he wrote music …

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Billy Hill

b. 14 July 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 24 Dec 1940, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A prolific composer and lyricist through the 30s, whose tracks have an appropriate, country sense about them. That is probably due to Hill spending a great deal of his early lifestyle going the American western world, …

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