Mack Gordon, 1904–1959, lyricist · Harry Warren, 1893–1981, composer
Warren wrote the music and Gordon the words, working as 20th Century-Fox’s house songwriting team. Warren was the first major American songwriter to work primarily in film and won three Oscars for Best Original Song; Gordon was nominated nine times in eleven years and won once, for “You’ll Never Know,” which the two of them wrote together. “At Last” is among the most durable things either man produced, though neither lived to see the version that made it famous become the standard.