Harry B. Smith

He also wrote the book or lyrics for several versions of the Ziegfeld Follies. According to his autobiography First Nights and First Editions (Boston: Little, Brown, 1931), Smith's actual name at birth was Henry Bach Smith. He married twice. His first wife was Lena Reed (born August 21, 1868), whom he married on October 12, 1887 in Chicago, Illinois. Smith's second wife was the actress Irene Bentley (c. 1870 – June 3, 1940). They married on November 23, 1906 in Boston, Massachusetts, after she had been divorced on June 12, 1906 by her first husband James Thomas Sothoron, Jr. She is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY. While on a brief holiday in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on New Year's Day in 1936, Smith died of a heart attack in his room at the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel. Smith worked on many of the famous musical theatre productions of his time. His younger brother Robert Bache Smith (June 4, 1875 – November 6, 1951) was also a successful lyricist. Harry Smith's archive is largely held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Name — Harry Bache Smith • Spouse — Irene Bentley (m. 1906) • Born — 28 December 1860 • Birthplace — Buffalo, New York, U.S. • Died — 1 January 1936 • Place of death — Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. • Occupation — Writer, lyricist, composer • Genre — Musical theatre

Unless otherwise specified below, Smith wrote the libretto (book and lyrics) for the work, and the date given is the date of the original production. In addition to the below, in 1980, some of Smith's songs were featured in the Broadway revue Tintypes.