Alan Jay Lerner Filmography

Born:: August 31, 1918 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter, Screenwriter
Biography:: Alan Jay Lerner is perhaps best remembered for the many Broadway musicals he penned with long-time collaborator Frederick Loewe. A number of these, including Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, and Camelot have become classics and were later successfully adapted to the screen by Lerner...Read More

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My Fair Lady

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Keira Knightley

Synopsis: A beloved musical comes back to life with this Columbia Pictures' production, with Keira Knightley stepping into the role of Cockney girl-turned-aristocrat Eliza Doolittle, famously portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in George Cukor's 1964 production. Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh produce the Read More

1/1/09
Broadway & Hollywood Legends: The Songwriters - Kander & Ebb/Alan Jay Lerner

Synopsis: Three legendary figures of the American musical theater share songs and stories of their careers in this documentary. In the first part of the program, Fred Ebb and John Kander, the songwriting team whose best known work includes the shows Chicago and Cabaret, sit down at the piano and offer Read More

2003
Secret Places

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Marie-Therese Relin, Tara Mac Gowran, Claudine Auger, Jenny Agutter, Cassie Stuart

Synopsis: In this film, set in a British girls school just before the outbreak of WW II, two young girls build a beautiful friendship despite their disparate backgrounds. Their teachers disapprove of their close relationship and try to discourage it, which suggests to the viewer that they suspect a lesbian Read More

1984
Tribute

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Robby Benson, Lee Remick, Kim Cattrall, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon stars in an Academy Award-nominated performance as Scottie Templeton, a Broadway press agent dying of cancer, in Bernard Slade's film adaptation of his Broadway play (in which Lemmon originated the role). Divorced from his wife Maggie (Lee Remick), Scottie leads a happy-go-lucky life Read More

1980
The Little Prince

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Stanley Donen directed this lugubrious musical fantasy based on the classic Antoine de Saint-Exupery children's parable, featuring a musical score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- their first film score since Gigi. The simple story concerns a French aviator (Richard Kiley) who crashes his Read More

1974
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Crew: From Musical by, Screenwriter

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this feature film version. Barbra Streisand stars as Daisy Gamble, a chain smoker who, at the urging of her uptight fiance Warren (Larry Blyden), seeks help in kicking the habit from Read More

1970
Paint Your Wagon

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston, Harve Presnell

Synopsis: After a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner and Loewe musical. With Loewe's permission, Lerner wrote five additional tunes for the film with Andre Previn. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) is the grizzled prospector trying his Read More

1969
Camelot

Crew: Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Joshua Logan directs this lavish version of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway success with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and Franco Nero in the lead roles originally portrayed on Broadway by Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet. The musical, based on T.H. White's The Read More

1967
My Fair Lady

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper

Synopsis: At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic Read More

1964
Gigi

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Lyricist, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever Read More

1958
Brigadoon

Crew: Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones

Synopsis: Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's studio mockups looked more Scottish than the genuine article. This lavish adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical stars Gene Kelly as an American tourist who Read More

1954
An American in Paris

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina Foch

Synopsis: Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving artists" colony. He is discovered by wealthy Milo Roberts (Nina Foch), who becomes Jerry's patroness in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Jerry plays hookey on this setup by Read More

1951
Royal Wedding

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of Fred Astaire's sister Adele to a British nobleman had occurred years earlier; the other, the wedding of England's Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was only four years in the past. Read More

1951