To an unusual extent, Victor Young (1900-1956) had great success as both a composer of film scores and also of popular songs. Born to a Jewish family in Chicago, he studied piano, violin, and composition in Warsaw, though the outbreak of World War I prevented him from going back. In the 1930s, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he broke into the film industry and received 22 Oscar nominations for both his scores and his songs, though he only won one posthumous Oscar (for his score for Around the World in 80 Days). He died of a cerebral hemorrhage.