I. B. Kornblum

Isadore Benjamin "I. B." Kornblum,

Life and career I. B. Kornblum was born on June 21, 1895, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was Jewish. His family moved to Los Angeles County, California where his father was a land developer, and Kornblum Avenue in Hawthorne, California carries the family's name. While in high school he started writing musicals and performing the piano. His first professional performance was as a teenager in 1911 at the Hyman Theatre in Los Angeles, where he played the piano and sang popular songs of the time. Kornblum graduated in 1917 with a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

He moved to New York City after college, and became a playwright. He created three popular Broadway musicals titled “Chin Toy,” “Twinkle Toes”, and “Blue Eyes.”

Kornblum was the lawyer for the Actors' Equity Association in Los Angeles. He represented singer Helen Morgan in 1934 for her lawsuit filed against film producer Myron C. Fagan for harassment. His second marriage was to Ann Beshon in 1926, and they had a son and daughter. He died at the age of 101 on November 9 , 1996, in his home in Beverly Hills. Patsy (ca. 1926), as writer and composer Waiting For Robert E. Lee (1933), as writer and composer

Filmography I Loved You Wednesday (1933), music Tucson (film) (1949), music The Man You Loved to Hate (1979), a documentary directed by Patrick Montgomery, about actor Erich von Stroheim, and Kornblum was an interviewee