- His first collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner was a 1942 musical adaptation of the farce "The Patsy", called "The Life of the Party"; it was written for a Detroit stock theater company.
- Has won three Tony Awards, all in collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner: two in 1957 for "My Fair Lady," as Best Composer and for his music as part of a Best Musical win; and one in 1974 for Gigi" as Best Score, his music with Lerner's lyrics,
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 545-547. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Sued Billy Gray after he recorded Sid Kuller's satiric review of "My Fair Lady" called "My Fairfax Lady", which had enjoyed a five-year run at Gray's comedy club, the Band Box, from 1956 to 1961.
- Grew up in Berlin, where he attended a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he was thirteen. He was a concert pianist by the age of fourteen.
- Worked as a cowboy, boxer and pianist before becoming a composer.
- Alan Jay Lerner and his musical, "Brigadoon" at the Goodman Theatre was awarded the 2014 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Musical Production.
- Alan Jay Lerner and his musical, "My Fair Lady" at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 1988 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Musical Production.
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