 He was an award-winning songwriter, with co-writer Burt D’Lugoff, of the 1956 hit "Cindy, Oh Cindy", and of "Fifteen", the theme for the movie "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil".He married Lorraine Hansberry in 1953, which Hansberry often cited as an important creative factor in the genesis of her play "A Raisin in the Sun".Nemiroff, executive producer of the PBS production, devoted much of his life to editing and promoting the work of Hansberry, who died from cancer at the age of 34.