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Buddy Gard DeSylva, often credited as Buddy De Sylva, Buddy DeSylva, Bud De Sylva and B.G. DeSylva (January 27, 1895 - July 11, 1950), He was born George Gard DeSylva in New York, New York, USA, but grew up in California and attended the University of Southern California. 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 on 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. He also was a producer of stage and screen musicals. 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. He joined ASCAP in 1920 and served on the ASCAP board of directors between 1922 and 1930. Then DeSylva relocated to Hollywood and went under contract to Fox Studios. In 1941, De Sylva became the Executive Producer at Paramount Pictures, a position he would hold until 1944. During his tenure at Paramount, he produced movies such as The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel, Captain January, Poor Little Rich Girl and Stowaway. He was also an uncredited exectutive producer for Double Indemnity
and The Glass Key
. In 1942, Johnny Mercer, Glenn Wallichs and De Sylva founded The Capitol Records company.

. He died in Hollywood, California, USA.

Broadway credits

1919 - La La Lucille (music by George Gershwin)
1922 - George White's Scandals of 1922 (music by George Gershwin
1922 - Orange Blossoms (music by Victor Herbert)
1922 - The Yankee Princess (music by Emmerich Kalman)
1923 - George White's Scandals of 1923 (music by George Gershwin
1924 - Sweet Little Devil (music by George Gershwin)
1924 - George White's Scandals of 1924 (music by George Gershwin
1925 - Big Boy (music by Joseph Meyer and James Hanley)
1925 - Tell Me More! (co-lyricist with Ira Gershwin music by George Gershwin)
1925 - George White's Scandals of 1925 (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)
1925 - Captain Jinks (music by Lewis Gensler)
1926 - George White's Scandals of 1926 (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)
1926 - Queen High
(music by Lewis Gensler)
1927 - Good News
(DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)
1927 - Manhattan Mary (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)
1928 - George White's Scandals of 1928 (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)
1928 - Hold Everything! (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)
1929 - Follow Thru (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)
1930 - Flying High (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)
1932 - Take A Chance (music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard A. Whiting and Vincent Youmans)

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