Ann Ronell

(1905-1993) born in Omaha. Composer, lyricist, known as first woman to compose both music and words for songs in feature films, she created over 100 popular songs, including the 1933 hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf-" and others, and was a pioneer in American opera with several librettos in the 1940s; nominated for Academy Awards in 1945 for scoring "The Story of GI Joe" and for best song "Linda". Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, November 28, 1948, p. C-4 and Nebraska Life (Fall 1997)16-19 and American National Biography, Sup 1 (2002) 525-526 and S'Marvelous, S'Wonderful: Studies in American Pop Song (Greenwood Press, 2004).

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