Styne and Cahn also produced the hit song, "Its Magic," for the film Romance On The High Seas, which starred Doris Day. Later, Styne revived his partnership with Sammy Cahn long enough to write the title song for "Three Coins In The Fountain," which won them an Oscar. Styne, with another collaborator, Leo Robin, next hit pay dirt with a musical version of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," which with the song, "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend," helped Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe make musical comedy history. The team eventually made its way back to New York and Broadway and soon came up with a score for "High Button Shoes," which ran a respectable 727 performances.
From 20th, he moved on to Paramount Pictures, where he met and collaborated with Frank Loesser on "I Don't Want To Walk Without You Baby," which remained for 20 weeks on radio's "Your Hit Parade." Styne's next partner was the already highly successful lyricist, Sammy Cahn (the recently deceased and beloved president of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame) who co-authored a host of memorable hits, including "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry," "I Fall in Love Too Easily" and "Time After Time," all of which were hits for Frank Sinatra.
Successful as a vocal coach, Styne was soon discovered by 20th Century Fox president, Joseph Schenck, who brought him to Hollywood to work with such stars as Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Tony Martin, The Ritz Brothers and others in that studio's stable. In 1934, tiring of gang warfare, Styne and his wife (he had married six years before) moved to New York, where he took over a vocal coaching business from an ill friend, Al Siegal. He often accompanied such stars as Al Jolson, Ruth Etting, Fannie Brice, and Sophie Tucker. Almost from that moment on, the young Jule took lessons and soon began performing, seldom to ever look back. Amused and impressed, the singer advised musical training for the lad, and so it followed after the move to Chicago, the father, Isadore Stein, virtually bankrupted himself on a second hand upright piano. Several years before, the youngster, taken by a rich uncle to the London Hippodrome to see the great Scottish star, Harry Lauder, was so excited by the music that he jumped to the stage and began prancing and dancing about with Lauder. The year was 1912, and the young boy who would one day become Jule Styne, Broadway and Hollywood composer extraordinaire, was on his way to America's heartland of Chicago. What some might call the original British invasion, began more than 50 years before the Beatles arrived in America, when a great music man to be, Jule Stein, left his homeland of England with his parents, bound for the United States. *Jule Styne was also the 1993 recipient of The Johnny Mercer Award, the SHOF’s highest honor
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