Walter Scharf
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Emerging from Manhattan’s Yiddish-theatre background, Scharf cut his musical teeth as an orchestrator for George Gershwin’s Girl Crazy and as accompanist to Helen Morgan before moving on to piano and arranging work for Rudy Vallee. He entered Hollywood in 1933, arranging for stars such as Al Jolson, Alice Faye and Bing Crosby, and later orchestrated Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” for Holiday In…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources