Charles Chaplin(1889-1977)

Composed the love theme for Moderne Zeiten (1936), as a totally instrumental, unnamed composition (although it was the music for a sequence of the film in which smiling was the emphasis. Much later the song became widely known as the named song that we came to know in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century as "Smile" after lyrics had been added by James John Turner Phillips (as John Turner) & Geoffrey Parsons in the 1950s, at John Turner's Peter Maurice Music Company in the late 1950s. Chaplin was known to be less than pleased that his little melody was re-written with lyrics.