Roger Edens
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- 1
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- Invitation to the Dance
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1905-11-09
- Active to
- 1970-07-13
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Roger Edens (9 November 1905 - 13 July 1970) was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood". Early career and work with Judy Garland Edens was born in Hillsboro, Texas. His parents were of Scots-Irish ancestry. He worked as a piano accompanist for ballroom dancers before going to work as a musical conductor on Broadway. <a hr
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roger
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hillsboro
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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- writing language
- English language
- place of burial
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1905-11-09
- date of death
- 1970-07-13
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
- start of work period
- 1932-00-00
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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