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Alan Jay Lerner
Highest Rated: 100% On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Lowest Rated: 33% Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Birthday: Aug 31, 1918
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Scion of the Lerner Shops fortune whose elegant lyrics reflected the sophisticated world of style and wit in which he lived. A chance meeting in 1942 with German-born composer Frederick Loewe who was fourteen years his senior resulted in one of the most productive and prosperous collaborations in the American musical theater. Wedded to Loewe's operetta-inspired melodious tunes, Lerner's lyrics and his archly romantic and literary librettos--which skillfully integrated music, character and story into a seamless whole--elevated the post-war musical to new heights of sophistication and intelligence. Together Lerner and Loewe created a string of Broadway hits all of which Lerner adapted to film: "Brigadoon" (1954), "My Fair Lady" (1964) "Camelot" (1967) and "Paint Your Wagon" (1969).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 69% | The Little Prince | Writer | - | 1974 |
| 100% | 75% | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Writer | - | 1970 |
| 33% | 68% | Paint Your Wagon |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1969 |
| 41% | 68% | Camelot | Writer | - | 1967 |
| 95% | 90% | My Fair Lady | Screenwriter | $447.6K | 1964 |
| 88% | 74% | Gigi |
Writer, Lyrics |
- | 1958 |
| 95% | 79% | An American in Paris | Screenwriter | - | 1951 |
| 92% | 69% | Royal Wedding |
Writer, Writer |
- | 1951 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1956 1965 1973 |