# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-a-whiting
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:08:32.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-a-whiting"
name: "Richard A. Whiting"
slug: "richard-a-whiting"
description: "Richard Armstrong Whiting was an American composer of popular songs, including the standards \"Hooray for Hollywood\", \"Ain't We Got Fun?\" and \"On the Good Ship Lollipop\". He also wrote lyrics occasionally, and film scores most notably for the standard \"She's Funny That Way\"."
tagline: "American composer and songwriter (1891–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_A._Whiting.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1891-11-12"
deathDate: "1938-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.28725866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926028/"
    handle:    "nm0926028"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уайтинг, Ричард А."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump