Herb Magidson while under contract to Warner Bros. to write music for films. In 1934, he won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song along with Con Conrad for his lyrics to "The Continental", used in "The Gay Divorcee" (1934) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Magidson also co-wrote the lyrics to the 1937 Allie Wrubel song "Gone with the Wind" (no connection to the novel of the same name nor used in the 1939 film). Magidson received Oscar nominations for the songs, "Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There" from the film "Hers to Hold" (1943), and "I'll Buy
Charles Coleman (actor) & Woolsey comedy "Diplomaniacs" (1933), 1934's "Born to Be Bad" which starred Loretta Young and Cary Grant, the 1934 version of "Of Human Bondage" starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard, the first film to star the pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "The Gay Divorcee" (1935), the first feature-length film to be shot entirely in Technicolor, "Becky Sharp", 1936's "Magnificent Obsession" starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor, the Spencer Tracy vehicle, "Captains Courageous" (1937), "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937), starring Errol Flynn and Claude Rains, and the Reginald Owen version of "A Christmas Carol" (1938). The 1940s would