For a fifteen-year period from the mid 1940s to the late 1950s, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston were one of the most successful songwriting teams in Hollywood. Their names appeared as a double credit for lyrics and music at the head of almost all of their...

THE SONGWRITING partnership of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans endured from 1945 until Livingston's death and included some of the biggest record and film hits of all time. Their three Oscar-winning songs were "Buttons and Bows", "Mona Lisa" and "Que Sera, Sera". Livingston...

Jay Livingston, 86, a film composer whose collaboration with lyricist Ray Evans garnered three Academy Awards for best song, died Oct. 17 at a Los Angeles hospital. He had pneumonia. Mr. Livingston and Evans wrote 26 songs that sold a million records or...

Oscar-winning songwriter Ray Evans, whose long collaboration with partner Jay Livingston produced such enduring standards as "Mona Lisa," "Buttons and Bows," "Silver Bells" and "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," has died. He was 92.Evans died late Thursday of heart failure at a...

They gave the Oscar to the wrong Truman Capote. I do not begrudge the versatile, popular Philip Seymour Hoffman his Oscar for playing the tiny terror in Capote, but he was doing an impression. In Infamous, the second movie about the tortures that the literary...