Harry Rosenthal


Harry Rosenthal was an orchestra leader, composer, pianist and actor.

Rosenthal was born in Belfast in 1893, and by the 1920s he was in London where he had a thriving musical career as a composer, bandleader and pianist, including composing five operettas which met with great success. He came to the United States by 1929, when he wrote songs for Herbert Stotharts musical Polly on Broadway, and in 1930 acted in Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufmans play June Moon, which was revived in 1933. After he met Edward, the Prince of Wales at a reception, he accompanied the heir to the British throne on a world tour.

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