Billy Rose

Built a career as one of the great American theatrical showmen of the mid-twentieth century, staging spectacles like Jumbo (1935) and the Aquacade (1937) that mixed circus scale with Broadway production values. As a lyricist he wrote or co-wrote enduring songs including "It's Only a Paper Moon" and "Without a Song." He was married for a time to the comedian and singer Fanny Brice.