death_place death_date article_title background birth_date origin name occupation
miami , florida , u.s. 20 december 1979 benny davis
 non_performing_personnel 21 august 1895 new york city , u.s. benny davis songwriter
benny davis

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for others with similar names , see ben davis . ''
benny davis -lrb- august 21 , 1895 -- december 20 , 1979 -rrb- was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs .
he composed the classic 1926 standard `` baby face '' with harry akst .
davis started performing in vaudeville in his teens .
he began writing songs when working as an accompanist for blossom seeley .
his first success was 1920 's `` margie '' , with music by con conrad and j. russel robinson .
his most popular song was `` baby face '' , written in 1926 with harry akst .
for broadway , davis wrote the score for the 1927 rendition of `` artists and models '' and for the 1929 show `` sons o ' guns '' .
his career lasted until the mid-1930s .
davis died in 1979 in miami , florida .
