Anne Pearson Crosswell
- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Washington Square") and author, educated at Randolph-Macon
Women's College (with a Bachelor of Arts degree). She was a copywriter
for the J. Walter Thompson and Leo Burnett advertising agencies, and a
television production assistant. She wrote the Broadway stage score for
"Tovarich", and also for "Ernest In Love" (off-Broadway). For
television, she wrote the scores for "Who's Earnest?" and "Huck Finn".
Joining ASCAP in 1956, her chief musical collaborators include Lee
Pockriss, Victor Ziskin, and Ed Scott. Her other popular-song
compositions include "The Plymouth Rock", "A Handbag Is Not a Proper
Mother", "A Wicked Man", "My Very First Impression", "The Only One", "I
Know the Feeling", "All for You", "The Bells of Christmas" and "Believe
In Stevenson" (the National Democratic campaign song, 1956).
