* 17.6 1902, New York, NY - † 6.12. 1989, Los Angeles (hart attack)

Begonnen als een club en radio pianist, schreef scores en liedjes voor vele films, vanaf het begin van het geluid tijdperk Hij won de Acedemy Awards voor het lied “Secret Love” in de film Calamity Jane (1953) en voor de titel song “Love is a many splended thing’
Filmografie Sammy Fain:
(Waar niets vermeld, is hij de composer/songcoposer)
1929   A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic (writer: "If I Give Up the Saxophone")
1929   Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors
           (music: "There's Something About a Rose")
1929   The Fatal Forceps  (writer: "If I Give Up the Saxophone")              
1930   Dangerous Nan McGrew 
1930   Roadhouse Nights/The River Inn
1930   Follow the Leader  ("Satan's Holiday")
1930   Laughter  ("Little Did I Know")
1930   With Byrd at the South Pole  (writer: "Back Home")
1930   The Big Pond  ("You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me")
1930   Young Man of Manhattan  

("I've Got 'It' But 'It' Don't Do Me No Good", "I'll Bob Up With The Bob-O-Link", "Good 'N' Plenty", "If You Can Just Forgive and Forget")

            1931   Monkey Business  ("You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me", "When I Take My Sugar to Tea")

1932   Three's a Crowd  (music: "One Step Ahead of My Shadow")
1932   Bosko the Drawback  (writer: "One Step Ahead of My Shadow")
1932   Rambling 'Round Radio Row  (music: "Hummin' to Myself")
1933   College Coach/Football Coach
            (music: "Men of Calvert", "Lonely Lane"
1933   Sittin' on a Backyard Fence (music: "Sittin' on a Backyard Fence")
1933   Buddy's Beer Garden
            (music: "It's Time to Sing 'Sweet Adeline' Again"
1933   Bosko's Mechanical Man (music: "One Step Ahead of My Shadow")
1933   Buddy's Day Out (music: "One Step Ahead of My Shadow")
1933   Moonlight and Pretzels/Moonlight and Melody
            (music: "There's A Little Bit of You (In Every Love Song)")
1933   I Like Mountain Music
            (music: "It's Time to Sing 'Sweet Adeline' Again")
1933   Bosko in Person (music: "Was That the Human Thing to Do?")
1933   One Step Ahead of My Shadow 
            (music: "One Step Ahead of My Shadow")
1933   Rambling 'Round Radio Row #5  (writer: "Bound for the Bronx")
1933   Footlight Parade 
            (music: "Ah! The Moon Is Here", "Sittin' on a Back Yard Fence", "By a                     Waterfall", "One StepAhead of My Shadow")               

1933   Female  (uncredited)
1933   The Road Is Open Again
1933   The Fatal Forceps  (writer: "If I Give Up the Saxophone")             
1934   Fashions of 1934/Fashions
            (music: "Spin a Little Web of Dreams"  "Broken Melody")
1934   Flirtation Walk (music: "By a Waterfall")
1934   Happiness Ahead  (writer: "Beauty Must Be Loved")
1934   Shake Your Powder Puff  (music: "Shake Your Powder Puff")
1934   Here Comes the Navy  (writer: "Hey, Sailor!")
1934   How Do I Know It's Sunday 
            (music: "How Do I Know It's Sunday?", "By a Waterfall")
1934   Buddy's Trolley Troubles
            (music: "Two Little Flies on a Lump of Sugar")
1934   Upperworld  (music: "Shake Your Powder Puff")
1934   Buddy's Garage  (music: "By a Waterfall")
1934   Harold Teen/Dancing Fool (music: "How Do I Know It's Sunday", "Simple             and Sweet", "Two Little Flies on a Lump of Sugar", "Collegiate Wedding")             (performer: "Simple and Sweet")
1934   Hollywood Newsreel/Pepper Pot (music: "How Do I Know It's                        Sunday?", "Two Little Flies On a Lump of Sugar", "Simple And Sweet")                    (performer: "How Do I Know It's Sunday?", "Simple And Sweet")

1934   Honeymoon Hotel  (music: "By a Waterfall", "Ah! The Moon Is Here"
1934   Mandalay  (music: "When Tomorrow Comes")
1934   Pettin' in the Park (music: "Ah! The Moon Is Here"  (uncredited))
1934   Dames  (music: "When You Were a Smile on Your Mother's Lips (and a                     Twinkle in Your Daddy's Eye)")                                        
1935   Johnny Green & His Orchestra  (music: "Ev'ry Day")
1935   'G' Men  (music: "You Bother Me an Awful Lot" (uncredited))
1935   Sweet Music  (music: "Ev'ry Day", "The Good Green Acres Of Home",                     "There's A Diff'rent You In Your Heart")

1935   Maybe It's Love  (music: "By a Waterfall")

1935   Goin' to Town (writer: “He’s a bad man”, “Now I’m a lady”, “Love is                     Love”)         

1935   Sweet Music (music: "Ev'ry Day", "The Good Green Acres Of Home",                     "There's A Diff'rent You In Your Heart")                     
1937   New Faces of 1937  (music: "Our Penthouse on Third Avenue", "It Goes to             Your Feet", "If I Didn't Have You", "Love Is Never Out of Season")
1937   September in the Rain  (music: "By a Waterfall")
1937   A Sunbonnet Blue
            (music: "A Sunbonnet Blue (and a Yellow Straw Hat)")
1937   Stand-In  (music: "That Old Feeling")
1937   Vogues of 1938/All This and Glamour Too
            (music: "That Old Feeling")
1938   The Prisoner of Swing  (music: "By a Waterfall")
1938   Little Blabbermouse  (music: "Shake Your Powder Puff")
1939   Conspiracy  (music: "Take The World Off My Shoulders")
1939   They Made Me a Criminal (music: "By a Waterfall")
1939   Tarnished Angel  (music: "It's the Doctor's Orders")
1941   Goofy Groceries (music: "By a Waterfall")
1941   Hellzapoppin'  (uncredited)                     
1942   Flying Tigers  (music: "That Old Feeling")
1942   Calling All Girls  (music: "By a Waterfall")
1943   Presenting Lily Mars  (music: "Paging Mr. Greenback" (1943)
1943   Swing Fever
            (writer: "Mississippi Dreamboat", "You're So Indifferent")
1943   I Dood It/By Hook or by Crook
            (writer: "So Long Sarah Jane", "Petunia")
1944   Lost in a Harem  
            (music: "Sons of the Desert", "It is Written" (lyrics: "Sons of the Desert".                 "It is Written" )
1944   Maisie Goes to Reno/you Can't Do That to Me 
            (music: "Panhandle Pete", "This Little Bond Went To Battle")
1944   Meet the People  (music: "In Times Like These", "Shicklegruber")
1944   I'll Be Seeing You  (music: "I'll Be Seeing You")
1944   Two Girls and a Sailor 
            (writer: "Concerto for Index Finger", "You, Dear")                                
1945   Week-End at the Waldorf  ("And There Your Are")

1945   Anchors Aweigh  ("The King Who Couldn't Dance (The Worry Song)"

1945   Thrill of a Romance  ("Please Don't Say No, Say Maybe")
1946   Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra  (music: "Guadalajara")
1946   No Leave, No Love  (writer: "All the Time", "Old Sad Eyes")
1946   Two Sisters from Boston 
            (music: "There Are Two Sides to Ev'ry Girl", "Nellie Martin", "The Firechief's             Daughter", "G'Wan Home Your Mudder's Callin'", "Down By the Ocean",                 "After the Show", "Autumn Twilight", "Indian Holiday", "Lanterns in the                 sky", "More Than Ever", "Seattle")
1947   The Unfinished Dance (music: "I Went Merrily Merrily on My Way")            
1948   The Cat That Hated People  (music: "That Old Feeling" (uncr.)
1948   The Pest That Came to Dinner  (music: "By a Waterfall")
1948   Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (music: "By a Waterfall")
1948   The Truce Hurts  (music: "Worry Song")             
1950   American Guerrilla in the Philippines/I Shall Return
            (music: "That Old Feeling")
1950   The Milkman  (writer: “The Early Morning Song”, Ït’s Bigger than both of                 Us”, “That’s my Boy”)
1950   A Fractured Leghorn  (music: "By a Waterfall")
1950   It's Hummer Time  (music: "By a Waterfall")                  
1951   Alice in Wonderland  (writer: "Very Good Advice", "In a World of My                    Own", "All in a Golden Afternoon", "Alice in Wonderland", "The Walrus and            the Carpenter", "The Caucus Race", "I'm Late", "Painting the Roses Red",                "March of the Cards", "I'm Odd", "Beyond the Laughing Cloud")
1951   Call Me Mister (writer: "Japanese Girl like 'Merican Boy", "I just can’t do                enough for you, Baby", "Love is nack in Business")
1952   With a Song in My Heart  (writer: "That Old Feeling")

1953   Three Sailors and a Girl  ("Face to Face")
         

 1953   Calamity Jane  (writer: "The Deadwood Stage(Whip-Crack-Away)",                         "Introducing Henry Miller", "Hive Full Of Honey", "I Can Do Without You",                 "It’s Harry I'm planning to marry", "Just blew in from the windy city", "Keep               it under your hat", "Higher than a hawk", "A Woman’s touch", "The black               Hills of Dakota", "Secret Love")

1953   Peter Pan  (writer: "The Second Star to the Right", "You Can Fly!", "What             Made the Red Man Red?", "Your Mother and Mine", "The Elegant Captain                 Hook")
1954   Young at Heart  ("There's A Rising Moon for Every Falling Star")
1954   Lucky Me  (music: "I Wanna Sing Like an Angel", "I Speak to the Stars",                 "Lucky Me", "Love You Dearly", "High Hopes", "The Superstition Song",                 "Men", "Blue Bells of Broadway")
1954   The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954) (TV) (writer: "Secret Love")
1955   Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 
            (music: "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing")
1955   Ain't Misbehavin'  (writer: "A Little Love can go a long way")            
1956   Hollywood or Bust  (writer: "It Looks Like Love", "A Day in the Country",             "Let's Be Friendly", "The Wild and Wooly West", "Hollywood or Bust")
1956   The Revolt of Mamie Stover  ("If You Wanna See Mamie Tonight")
1956   Rabbitson Crusoe  (music: "Secret Love")
1956   The 28th Annual Academy Awards (TV)
            (writer: "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing")
1957   Spring Reunion  (music: "That Old Feeling")                                    
1958   A Certain Smile  (music: "A Certain Smile")
1958   Marjorie Morningstar  (music: "A Very Precious Love")
1958   The 30th Annual Academy Awards  (TV) (writer: "April Love")
1958   The Gift of Love  (writer: "The Gift of Love")              
1959   The Big Circus  ("The Big Circus")
1959   Imitation of Life  (music: "Imitation of Life")
1959   The 31st Annual Academy Awards 
            (TV) (writer: "A Certain Smile", "A Very Precious Love")
1959   Sleeping Beauty  (writer: "Once Upon A Dream")
1962   Tender Is the Night  ("Tender Is the Night")   
1963   A New Kind of Love ("You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me")  

1963   Philbert (Three's a Crowd)  (writer: "Philbert")
                 

1963   The 35th Annual Academy Awards   (writer: "Tender Is the Night")
1964   Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare  (music: "By a Waterfall")
1965   Joy in the Morning  (music: "Joy in the Morning")
1966   Made in Paris (music: "Paris Lullaby")                
1972  The Stepmother/Impulsion(music:"Strange Are The Ways Of Love")
1972   Fuzz  ("I'll Be Seeing You")
1972   Northeast of Seoul  ("Northeast of Seoul")
1973   The 45th Annual Academy Awards (TV)
            (writer: "Strange Are the Ways of Love")
1974   The Front Page                                                                  
           (music:"Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine")
1974   The Parallax View  (writer: "Wild and Woolly West")
1974   The Teacher/The Seductress (music: "The Teacher")
1974   The Conversation (music: "When I Take My Sugar To Tea")
1975   The Specialist  (writer: "The Specialist")
1976   Baby Blue Marine  ("I'll be Seeing You")
1977   The Rescuers/Bernardo y Bianca
            (music: "The Journey", "Rescue Aid Society", "Tomorrow is Another Day",                 "Someone's Waiting for You", "Tomorrow is Another Day" (Reprise),                         "Rescue Aid Society" (Reprise), "Faith is a Blue Bird")
1977   New York, New York (music: "You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me"                 (uncredited))
1977   The 49th Annual Academy Awards  (TV)
            (writer: "A World that Never Was")
1978   Grease  (music: "Love is a many splendored thing")
1978   The 50th Annual Academy Awards- (TV)
            (writer: "Someone's Waiting For You")
1979   Yanks/Gestern waren wir noch Fremde    
            (writer: "I'll Be Seeing You")
1980   Raging Bull (music and lyric: "A New Kind of Love")
1984   Swing Shift  ("I'll Be Seeing You")
1986   Heartbreak Ridge  (writer: "Secret Love", "A Very Precious Love")
1986   Children of a Lesser God
            ("You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me")
1986   Club Paradise  (writer: "Love Is A Mony Splendored Thing")
1988   Disney Sing-Along-Songs: You Can Fly (music: "You Can Fly!")
1989   Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Fun with Music  (V)
            (music: "All in the Golden Afternoon")
1989   Cookie  (writer: "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing")
1989   New York Stories  (writer: "I'll Be Seeing You")
1990   Misery  (writer: "I'LL BE SEEING YOU")
1991   Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Under the Sea
             (V) (music: "Someone's Waiting for you")
            Ook na zijn dood warden zijn songs nog in vele films gebruikt