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Youmans, (Millie) Vincent (Jr) (1898–1946)| US composer. His music for Wildflower (1923), No, No, Nanette (1925), Hit the Deck! (1927), and Great Day! (1929) included such popular songs as ‘Tea for Two’, ‘Sometimes I'm Happy’, and ‘Without a Song’. For the film Flying Down to Rio (1933) he also wrote such melodies as ‘Carioca’ and ‘Music Makes Me’. |
| Born in New York, New York, he abandoned the chance to go to Yale and then a job on Wall Street, and went to work as a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley. After serving with the navy in World War I, he returned to work as an accompanist and composer. |
| During the 1930s, his finances, marriage, and health all collapsed, and he enjoyed little success after 1933. Said to have been the model for Abe North in F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, he died of tuberculosis. |
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