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| | AL JOLSON - CONTRACT SIGNED 04/07/1944 CO-SIGNED BY:HARRY AKST , HERMAN RUBY , BERT KALMAR |
 | | COMPOSERS and LYRICISTS: JOLSON, AKST, RUBY and KALMAR |
 | | In 1944, the song "Who Said Dreams Don't Come True?", music by Jolson, Akst and Benny Davis, was used in Columbia's The Impatient Years starring Jean Arthur, Lee Bowman, Charles Coburn and Edgar Buchanan. |
 | | RUBY and KALMAR collaborated on 19 motion pictures, including the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers (with Groucho's theme song, "Hooray for Captain Spaulding"), Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, A Night at the Opera and A Night in Casablanca. |
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