Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin (February 19, 1912 – November 15, 1997) was an American composer and musical director. He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York. He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley. In film, he won three Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of "An American in Paris" (1951), "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954) and "West Side Story" (1961). Following education at New York University's School of Commerce, where he studied accounting, Chaplin joined the ASCAP and started out penning tunes for the theatre, vaudeville and for
New York University in popular culture the NYU campus. In Ralph Bakshi's animated feature "Fritz The Cat" (1972), the dormitory that Fritz burns down is clearly supposed to be NYU's Weinstein Hall, located at 5-11 University Place near the northeast corner of Washington Square Park. The Warner Brothers show "Felicity" was set at the "University of New York", clearly modeled after NYU. NYU is also featured in the TV show "Californication". The following are characters in film, television, literature, and other media that have a connection to the university: New York University in popular culture New York University (NYU) has been the subject of numerous aspects