Dietz, Howard
(1896–1983)> LYRICIST
Howard Dietz Lyricist New York City, September 8, 1896; New York City, July 30, 1983. Dietz partnered Arthur Schwartz in many Broadway shows, but also wrote with Jerome Kern, Vernon Duke, Jimmy Mchugh, and Ralph Rainger. Dietz was the son of a Russian immigrant jeweler. While he was a junior at Columbia, he won an advertising slogan contest, which led to a job as an ad writer for a New York firm that represented, among other accounts, MGM. Dietz is credited with creating the MGM logo (Leo the…