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Kay Swift

19 April 1897 – 28 January 1993 American composer of popular and classical music, first woman to score a complete musical, [i]Fine and Dandy[/i]. Married to banker James Paul Warburg from 1918 to 1934. Using the pen name [a=Paul James (4)], he wrote the lyrics of two hits of her musical: [i]Can't We Be Friends?[/i] (1929) and [i]Fine And Dandy[/i] (1930).