New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer. · Public domain

A lyricist who wrote more than 400 songs across five decades of Broadway and film, among the first women to succeed as a Tin Pan Alley songwriter in a field almost entirely closed to them. Her partnerships with Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and later Cy Coleman produced "The Way You Look Tonight," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," and "Big Spender." She won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Way You Look Tonight" in 1936.