Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1914 September 25 | Robert Wright born in Daytona Beach, Florida |
| 1915 July 31 | George Forrest Chichester Jr., known as Chet Forrest, born in Brooklyn, New York |
| circa 1928 | Forrest moved to Florida prior to entering high school |
| circa 1929 | Wright and Forrest met in the Miami High School glee club and collaborated on their first song together |
| 1936 | Began working for MGM studios in Hollywood writing lyrics, arranging, and composing for more than fifty films |
| 1939 | Nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song (lyrics) for “Always and Always” from Mannequin |
| circa 1940 | Began writing music for revues and cabaret acts by Jane Froman, Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling, Rosemary Clooney, and others performing at venues such as the the Copacabana, La Vie Parisienne, Waldorf Astoria Empire Room, Colonial Inn Casino, and Camp Tamiment |
| 1942 | Nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song “It’s a Blue World” from Music in My Heart |
| 1943 | Nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song (lyrics) for “Pennies for Peppino” from Flying with Music |
| 1944 | Started composing staged musicals, some of which were written by adapting the music of other composers Song of Norway, based on the music of Edvard Grieg, premiered by the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera |
| 1950-1951 | Composed music for the television variety series Star Time |
| 1953 | Broadway premiere of musical Kismet, based on the music of Alexander Borodin |
| 1954 | Kismet won Tony award for Best Musical |
| 1946-1967 | Wrote several shows including Spring in Brazil, Gypsy Lady, Magdalena, At the Grand, Anya, Dumas and Son, and Kean |
| 1970 | Song of Norway film adaptation released |
| 1978 | Kismet reworked into the new show Timbuktu! |
| 1989 | At the Grand revived as Grand Hotel, which received Tony award nomination |
| 1995 | Wright and Forrest awarded ASCAP Foundation's Richard Rodgers Award |
| 1998 | Release of album A Bag of Popcorn and a Dream, a sampler of trunk songs produced by Walter Willison |
| 10 October 1999 | Death of George Forrest |
| 27 July 2005 | Death of Robert Wright |