Synopsis
A native of Warsaw, a student of Karol Szymanowski at the Warsaw Conservatory, Henryk Wars became famous as a court composer of hits for stars of fashionable Warsaw cabarets. He has also written music for fifty Polish feature films. He kept composing also in the USA, where he landed after WWII, back from the war trail of an officer of General Anders' Polish Armed Forces in the East. A friend of John Wayne, Henryk Wars worked in Hollywood, has provided musical scores for sixty films, and had his songs sung by Brenda Lee, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, and Margaret Whiting, among other world-class singers.
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