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Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser (;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 inogolo - Pronunciation of Loesser )〕 June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway hits ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'', among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter. He also wrote numerous songs for films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards for best song, winning once, for "Baby, It's Cold Outside".
== Early years ==
Loesser was born in New York City to Henry Loesser, a pianist,〔(Frank Loesser biography ), pbs.org, accessed December 5, 2008〕 and Julia Ehrlich. He grew up in a house on West 107th Street in Manhattan. His father had moved to America to avoid Prussian military service and working in his family's banking business. He came to America and married Berthe (Ehrlich), and had a son in 1894, Arthur Loesser. In 1888, Berthe's sister Julia arrived in America. Julia and Henry soon fell in love and Julia really loved Arthur, but Berthe sent her to Washington D.C. Sadly, Berthe died in childbirth, and Julia moved back in and married Henry in 1907. Their first child, Grace, was born in December of that year. His parents both prized high intellect and culture and thus Loesser was taught musically in the vein of European composers.〔 But although Henry was a full-time piano teacher, he never taught his son. In a 1914 letter to Frank's older half-brother Arthur Loesser, Henry wrote that the 14-year-old Frank could play by ear "any tune he's heard and can spend an enormous amount of time at the piano."〔Loesser 1993, p. 8-10〕 (Frank Loesser would later collaborate with musical secretaries to ensure that his written scores—he was self-taught—reflected the music as he conceived it.〔Loesser 1993, p. 154-156〕)
Loesser did not like his father's posh taste of music and resisted when he wrote his own music and took up the harmonica. He was expelled from Townsend Harris High School, and from there went to City College of New York (even though he had no high school diploma).〔 He was expelled from the CCNY in 1925 after one year for failing every subject except English and gym.〔
After his father died suddenly in 1926, Loesser went into the work force to earn money for his family. He held various jobs like restaurant reviewer, process server, sold classified ads for the ''New York Herald Tribune'', drew political cartoons for ''The Tuckahoe Record'', sketch writer for Keith Vaudeville Circuit, a knit-goods editor for ''Women’s Wear Daily'', a press representative for a small movie company, and city editor for a short-lived newspaper in New Rochelle, New York called '' New Rochelle News''.〔〔
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