- Nacimiento
- Defunción5 de julio de 1983 · Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos (un cáncer linfático)
- Nombre de nacimientoHarry Haag James
- Altura1.83 m
- Harry James nació el 15 de marzo de 1916 en Georgia, Estados Unidos. Fue un actor y compositor, conocido por Matrix (1999), Matrix: Revoluciones (2003) y El toro salvaje (1980). Estuvo casado con Joan Boyd, Betty Grable y Louise Tobin. Murió el 5 de julio de 1983 en Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugesJoan Boyd(27 de diciembre de 1967 - marzo de 1970) (divorciado, 1 niño)Betty Grable(5 de julio de 1943 - 9 de octubre de 1965) (divorciado, 2 niños)Louise Tobin(4 de mayo de 1935 - 3 de julio de 1943) (divorciado, 2 niños)
- His son, Tim James, was an attorney working with the attorney general of Texas and was one of those responsible for enticing TV personality Marvin Zindler to investigate the famous Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, Texas - eventually leading to its closure. The story became the basis of the Broadway and movie musical, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982).
- He and Betty Grable had two daughters: Victoria Elizabeth James (born 3 March 1944), and Jessica James (born 20 May 1947).
- When traveling with his circus parents he was billed as "The Youngest Contortionist in the World.".
- Bought a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording at 6683 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- Entombed in Eden Vale Mausoleum, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- When I was boy down in Texas a bunch of us used to go to the theater every Saturday morning. The organist played the songs that we knew and the crowd of us would join in singing. That was the way we let off steam. It was a good thing for all of us and, take it from me, many a boy was kept straight by singing those songs.
- Some of our most popular numbers are by the great classical composers. Take our arrangements of 'The Flight of the Bumble Bee' or of 'The Afternoon of a Faun'. The kids go crazy over them In order to give them their proper rendering I added a string section to our band and, believe me, many people thought I was going nuts when when I hired those long-underwear boys. But it is not only the kids who like our stuff. Kreisler himself approved a record we made of our arrangement of his 'Caprice Viennoise'.
- Band leaders must be like automobile manufacturers before the war. They must be bringing out new models all the time. We have to vary our programs, playing sweet numbers and jump numbers, and we have to play them different ways.
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