Paul Webster

Lyricist

About

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Also Known As

Paul Francis Webster, Paul F. Webster

Born

December 20, 1907

Died

March 22, 1984

Cause of Death

Parkinson's Disease

Filmography

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Nora Prentiss (1947)

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Marriage Story (2019)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Photos & Videos

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Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) They Call Me Sweet Loretta

Raintree County (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

Notes

Webster earned 16 Oscar nominations in his career.

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Nora Prentiss (1947)

From a story by

Music (Feature Film)

Marriage Story (2019)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Lady in the Water (2006)

Rumor Has It... (2005)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

The Human Stain (2003)

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Brown Sugar (2002)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Last Resort (2000)

Song ("Theme From Spiderman")

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

The Story of Us (1999)

Hope Floats (1998)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Picture Perfect (1997)

Song ("Anastasia")

Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

Miami Rhapsody (1995)

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Crossing the Bridge (1992)

Prelude to a Kiss (1992)

For the Boys (1991)

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Songs ("Secret Love" "A Very Special Love")

Before Stonewall (1985)

Shifshuf Naim (1981)

Song ("Love Is A Many Splendored Thing")

Heart Beat (1980)

Rough Cut (1980)

The Magician of Lublin (1979)

Title Song ("The Magician")

The Specialist (1975)

Dr. Minx (1975)

Song ("The Dark Side Of Love")

The Parallax View (1974)

Mr. Sycamore (1974)

Lyrics ("As Time Goes By")

The Teacher (1974)

The Stepmother (1972)

The Seven Minutes (1971)

Heaven With a Gun (1969)

Three Bites of the Apple (1967)

Made in Paris (1966)

An American Dream (1966)

The Sandpiper (1965)

Joy in the Morning (1965)

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Tender Is the Night (1962)

Return to Peyton Place (1961)

The Alamo (1960)

Cimarron (1960)

Green Mansions (1959)

Beloved Infidel (1959)

The Man Who Understood Women (1959)

Imitation of Life (1959)

The Big Circus (1959)

Rio Bravo (1959)

Seven Hills of Rome (1958)

A Certain Smile (1958)

The Gift of Love (1958)

Mardi Gras (1958)

Marjorie Morningstar (1958)

Interlude (1957)

Raintree County (1957)

Let's Be Happy (1957)

Man on Fire (1957)

Boy on a Dolphin (1957)

The Girl He Left Behind (1956)

Hollywood or Bust (1956)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

Timberjack (1955)

Battle Cry (1955)

Sincerely Yours (1955)

Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

Young at Heart (1954)

His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)

Rose Marie (1954)

Lucky Me (1954)

The Student Prince (1954)

Blowing Wild (1953)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Because You're Mine (1952)

Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)

The Merry Widow (1952)

Fearless Fagan (1952)

The Daltons' Women (1951)

The Great Caruso (1951)

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)

It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

A Scandal in Paris (1946)

A Scandal in Paris (1946)

How Doooo You Do!!! (1945)

I'll Remember April (1945)

Johnny Angel (1945)

I'll Tell the World (1945)

The Stork Club (1945)

Minstrel Man (1944)

Thousands Cheer (1944)

Ghost Catchers (1944)

The National Barn Dance (1944)

Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Hit the Ice (1943)

It Ain't Hay (1943)

Klondike Kate (1943)

Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

We've Never Been Licked (1943)

Seven Sweethearts (1942)

Shooting High (1940)

Everything's on Ice (1939)

Fisherman's Wharf (1939)

Breaking the Ice (1938)

Make a Wish (1937)

Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937)

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)

Rainbow on the River (1936)

Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

Our Little Girl (1935)

Dressed to Thrill (1935)

Music (Special)

Michael Feinstein & Friends (1991)

Life Events

Videos

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) They Call Me Sweet Loretta Introducing leading WWII pinup Carole Landis in one of her first post-war pictures, fugitives George Sanders and Akim Tamiroff (as the historical figure and central character Vidocq, and sidekick Emile) are persuaded she’s worth a look, in Marseilles ca. 1805, in A Scandal In Paris, 1946, from producer Arnold Pressburger.

Raintree County (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits After the Overture, with Nat "King" Cole singing the theme, the opening credits for director Edward Dmytryk's sprawling Civil War epic Raintree County, 1957, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Eva Marie Saint.

Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Villa Count Danilo (Fernando Lamas), with his welcoming crew in lowly Marshovia caught unawares as the rich widow Radek (Lana Turner) arrives from America, Sujata his Gypsy partner, with Paul Francis Webster’s lyric to a tune (“Vilja”) from the original Franz Lehar operetta, staged by Jack Cole, produced by Joe Pasternak for MGM, in The Merry Widow, 1952.

Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Night Not quite able to see Lana Turner (title character, the visiting American widow Radek) in the dark, Count Danilo (Fernando Lamas), enlisted by his king to seduce her and her millions home to tiny Marshovia, offers the song from the Franz Lehar operetta, English lyric by Paul Francis Webster, in MGM’s The Merry Widow, 1952.

Johnny Angel (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Memphis In June Angel (George Raft) and Paulette (Signe Hasso) have just reconciled in the murder-mystery plot, thus the occasion for his driver, the philosophical Celestial O'Brien (Hoagy Carmichael) to offer what was then a new song, his tune with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, in Johnny Angel, 1946.Johnny Angel, 1946.

Rio Bravo (1959) -- (Movie Clip) My Rifle, My Pony and Me One expects the specialty number ("My Rifle, My Pony and Me," Dimitri Tiomkin and Paul Francis Webster) for Dude (Dean Martin) and Colorado (Ricky Nelson), but maybe not the encore with Stumpy (Walter Brennan) in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, 1959.

Calamity Jane (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Deadwood Stage Full throttle opening, original tune by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, Chubby Johnson is the driver and Howard Keel appears as Wild Bill but all are spectators to the star, Doris Day in the title role in the 1953 Warner Bros. hit Calamity Jane.

Calamity Jane (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Do Without You Doris Day (title character), with saloon owner Miller (Paul Harvey) and maybe-boyfriend Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), laments having promised to bring a big-time singer to Deadwood, inducing another original by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, in Calamity Jane, 1953.

Calamity Jane (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Secret Love Having replaced her rough buckskins with a softer cleaner set, with a new hairdo and Joel McCrea's horse, which he loaned to her for the picture, Doris Day (title character) offers the Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster original that became one of her signature songs, in Calamity Jane, 1953.

Let's Be Happy (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going To Scotland Early on, Vermonter Jeannie (Vera-Ellen) has just executed the will of her late Scottish grandfather, finding a pile of cash, and performing I'm Going To Scotland, by Nicholas Brodszky and Paul Francis Webster, in Let's Be Happy, 1957.

Let's Be Happy (1957) -- (Movie Clip) The Man From Idaho At what's supposed to be a posh Edinburgh hotel, American tourist Jeannie (Vera-Ellen) is swooning over Idahoan Stanley Smith (Tony Martin), even as he breaks their date, in Let's Be Happy, 1957.

Lucky Me (1954) -- (Movie Clip) High Hopes Out of work and forced to take hotel kitchen jobs, song and dance team Candy, Flo, Duke and Hap (Doris Day, Nancy Walker, Phil Silvers and Eddie Foy Jr.,) with a number by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, Leroy Prinz with choreography, in the Warner Bros. musical Lucky Me, 1954.

Imitation of Life (1959) - (Original Trailer) Two mothers, one white, one black, face problems with their rebellious daughters in Douglas Sirk's Imitation Of Life (1959) starring Lana Turner.

Presenting Lily Mars - (Original Trailer) A small-town girl fights for her chance on Broadway in Presenting Lily Mars (1943) starring Judy Garland.

Heaven With A Gun - (Original Trailer) Glenn Ford stars in Heaven With A Gun (1969) as a gunslinger-turned-preacher who is forced to return to his old ways.

Calamity Jane - (Original Trailer) Doris Day sings the Oscar-winning song "Secret Love" in the Western musical Calamity Jane (1953).

Gift of Love, The - (Original Trailer) A dying woman (Lauren Bacall) arranges an adoption to leave her husband with some consolation in The Gift of Love (1958).

Alamo, The - (Original Trailer) Davey Crockett (John Wayne) and Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) join the fight for Texas' independence from Mexico in The Alamo (1960), a Western epic directed by John Wayne.

Joy In The Morning - (Original Trailer) A law student (Richard Chamberlain) and his bride (Yvette Mimieux) try to build a life together despite her fear of intimacy.

Man On Fire - (Original Trailer) Bing Crosby takes a intensely dramatic role as a divorced man who fights for custody of his son when his ex-wife remarries.

Johnny Angel - (Original Trailer) George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to get the guys who murdered his father in Johnny Angel (1945).

Bibliography

Notes

Webster earned 16 Oscar nominations in his career.

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