Pollack, Lew

Lew Pollack Composer, lyricist, and pianist New York City, June 16, 1895; Hollywood, California, January 18, 1946. Pollack was most active in New York in the 1920s and then in Hollywood through the mid-1940s. Pollack had songs in Broadway shows and revues in the early 1920s, including The Whirl of New York and The Midnight Rounders of 1921, both in 1921. He collaborated with composer Erno Rapee on two major hits of the 1920s, “Charmaine” (1926) and “Diane” (1927). “Charmaine” was originally…