Biography
Al Dubin was a Swiss-born American lyricist and songwriter. Born in Zurich in 1891, he moved to the United States in 1893 and was educated at the Perkiomen Seminary in Pennsylvania. He worked for New York music publishers, served in the US Army during the First World War, and later contributed to Broadway revues and musicals.
Dubin is best known for his long collaboration with composer Harry Warren at Warner Bros. in the 1930s. Their songs featured in films including 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1934) and Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935). He received an Academy Award for the song "Lullaby of Broadway" in 1935.
Dubin died in New York in 1945.
