Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Jule Styne on his birthday 🎂
📷 Murray Garrett, 1948
With his collaborator, Sammy Cahn.
"Frank's figured it out. He sings the words. The other fellers sing the notes. But we've already worked all that out: The words fit the notes. So sing the words."

Jule Styne talking with Leonard Bernstein at a party, in a great photo by Gordon Parks, 1958

Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy Rose Lee (who said she felt "like a ghost at a banquet"), Arthur Laurents & Jule Styne during rehearsals for Gypsy.
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1959
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Coffee with Jule Styne ☕️
📷 Santi Visalli, 1974

Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Judy Holliday & Jule Styne in rehearsal for Bells Are Ringing, 1956
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Dith Pran for the @NYTimes
Jule Styne on the set of Bar Mitzvah Boy, at the 92nd Street Y

Jack Klugman, Jule Styne, Ethel Merman & Stephen Sondheim at the Columbia recording session for the cast album Gypsy, 1959
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Frank Sinatra sings Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne's beautiful "Time After Time" in It Happened in Brooklyn, 1947. It's always a treat to see Jimmy Durante. And the chap playing the piano for Frank off-camera? André Previn.

"I Fall in Love Too Easily" is one of my favourite Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn songs. They wrote it for Frank Sinatra to sing in Anchors Aweigh!, 1945. Nominated for an Oscar, it lost out to Rodgers & Hammerstein's "It Might as Well be Spring"

Judy Holliday & Jule Styne in rehearsal for Bells Are Ringing
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1956
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Styne wrote the music, & Betty Comden & Adolph Green wrote the book & lyrics.

Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim by Friedman-Abeles
@NYPL, 1959
Sondheim was hired to write both music & lyrics for Gypsy, but:
"Ethel Merman put her foot down & insisted on Styne. She must have thought, ‘Look what he did for Carol Channing & Judy Holliday'."
- Charles Troy

Jule Styne & Jerome Robbins at a rehearsal of the Broadway musical "Jerome Robbins' Broadway."
📷 Martha Swope, 1989
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Jule Styne, Adolph Green & Betty Comden attend the premiere of "The Night of the Generals" on February 1, 1967
📷 Ron Galella

"Stynes (or Styne-ese), n. language circa middle 20th century, spoken and understood by only one man."
In her September 21, 1994 obituary for Jule Styne, Eleanor Blau quotes Styne's biographer, Theodore Taylor, from "Jule: The Story of Composer Jule Styne".