(composer Gérard Calvi), which enjoyed a short run at the 54th Street Theater in 1965. In 1970, he wrote a musical adaptation of Gone with the Wind entitled Scarlett for a Tokyo production with a Japanese cast. It later was staged in English with little success in London and Los Angeles. Rome's music and/or lyrics can be heard in such films as Babes on Broadway (1941), Thousands Cheer (1943), Anchors Aweigh (1945), and Rear Window (1954). In 1991, Rome was presented with a special Drama Desk Award for his "distinctive contribution to musical theater". Later that same year, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Rome died of a stroke in New York City at the age of 85. Works Shows 1937: Pins and Needles 1946: Call Me Mister 1952: Wish You Were Here 1954: Fanny 1959: Destry Rides Again 1962: I Can Get It for You Wholesale 1965: The Zulu and the Zayda Songs 1939: "Gee, But I’d Like to Be a G-Man" 1939: "Who's Gonna Investigate the Man Who Investigates Me?" (first sung by Zero Mostel) 1945: "(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings" (from the French song "Ma Mie" by Henri Laurent Herpin; English lyric by Harold Rome), sung by Kathryn Grayson in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh. Versions by Johnnie Johnston and by Martha Stewart were hits in 1945 reaching numbers 7 and 12 respectively in the Billboard chart. 1962: "Miss Marmelstein" and "Who Knows?" from I Can Get It for You Wholesale References Sources External links The Harold Rome Papers, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University 1908 births 1993 deaths American musical theatre composers American musical theatre lyricists Jewish American composers Jewish American songwriters Yale University alumni Tau Epsilon Phi 20th-century American composers 20th-century American Jews