Carrie Salmon (born October 31, 1975) is a Canadian fashion model.

Carrie has modeled for Victoria's Secret & Christian Dior. She has been featured in advertisements for Hermès, Moschino and appeared between the pages of Glamour, ELLE, Vogue and numerous other magazines. Carrie has done runway modeling for Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, Versace, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Dries van Noten, Givenchy, Hermès, Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, and Vivienne Westwood.

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known. Among his best known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, as well as the opera Porgy and Bess.

Born in Brooklyn to a Ukrainian father of Jewish descent and a Russian mother, Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark and Henry Cowell. He began his career as a song plugger, but soon thereafter started composing Broadway theatre works with his brother Ira Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris in an attempt to study with Nadia Boulanger, where he began to compose An American in Paris. After returning to New York City, he wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and author DuBose Heyward. Initially a commercial failure, Porgy and Bess is now considered one of the most important American operas of the Twentieth Century. Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores until his death in 1937 from a brain tumor.

Robert Haymes (March 29, 1923 - January 27, 1989), also known under the stage names Robert Stanton and Bob Stanton, was an American singer, songwriter, actor and radio and television host. He is best remembered today for co-writing the song "That's All", considered part of the Great American Songbook. He was the younger brother of singer and actor Dick Haymes.

Haymes was born in White Plains, New York to parents of Irish descent from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He had an older brother by seven years, Dick Haymes, who was born when the family was still in Argentina, and who would later achieve great fame as an actor and singer.

Haymes began his career in the early 1940s as a vocalist in the bands of Carl Hoff and Bob Chester.

In 1942 Haymes began work, under the name "Bob Stanton", for the radio show Gillette Cavalcade of Sports. He continued with the program until 1946, when it was turned into a television show on NBC; he then became the host of the television show until 1949. He also began to serve as the host of other NBC shows, all under the name "Bob Stanton", including game show Campus Hoopla during the show's run from 1946 to 1947, Television Screen Magazine in 1948, the country music show Village Barn in 1949, and the show Around the Town in 1950.

Jeff Blumenkrantz (born June 3, 1965 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American actor and musical theatre composer/lyricist.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Blumenkrantz is a graduate of Northwestern University. His acting credits include roles in such Broadway productions as Into the Woods (2002), The Threepenny Opera (1989), Damn Yankees (1994), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1995), and A Class Act (2001), as well as appearances in such television shows as Will & Grace, Just Shoot Me!, and Law & Order.

In 2000, noted Broadway actress and recording artist Audra McDonald included Blumenkrantz's song "I Won't Mind" on her CD, How Glory Goes. This lullaby ( with lyrics by Annie Kessler and Libby Saines) has become a staple of McDonald's repertoire. Blumenkrantz also contributed a piece to The Seven Deadly Sins, a song cycle commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the singer. His comic song, "My Book," addressed the sin of sloth.

In 2003, Blumenkrantz was nominated for a Best Original Score Tony Award for his work on Urban Cowboy, a nomination he shared with Jason Robert Brown and twenty-eight others.