Sigmund Romberg
Opera Singer
Composer of numerous operettas including The Student Prince, The New Moon, and The Desert Song. He was of Austro-Hungarian heritage.
He worked in a pencil factory.
He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
He married second wife Lillian Harris in 1925.
He was portrayed by Jose Ferrer in the film Deep in My Heart from 1954.