"It Might As Well Be Spring"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1945
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Crain, Jeanne
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Haymes, Dick
label: composer
content: Rodgers, Richard
label: lyricist
content: Hammerstein II, Oscar
label: publisher
content: Williamson Music Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song “It Might As Well Be Spring,” with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was published by William Son Music, Inc. in New York, New York in 1945.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>”It Might as Well Be Spring” was featured in the 1945, 20th Century Fox musical film, <i>State Fair,</i> directed by Walter Lang and starred Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, and Vivian Blaine. “It Might As Well Be Spring” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1945. <i>State Fair</i> was the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written originally for film.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Movies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3013.148
label: nonaccession number
content: 2014.3013
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3013.148
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 9 in; 29.845 cm x 22.86 cm