- His daughter, the late stage actress Irmgard Spoliansky (a.k.a. Spoli Mills) one day when, returning home, came across her eccentric father standing in the Tube station at Hyde Park Corner with a hat beside him containing a few coins. When she inquired what he was doing, he told her that the harmonica player whose corner this was had gone for a drink and he was keeping an eye on things. "But why you?" his daughter asked. "He's a fellow musician," her father replied.
- At the age of 10 he gave his first concert and was regarded as a prodigy.
- Like many other artists in those days Mischa Spoliansky had to flee in 1933 from the arising Nazi regime. Fortunately his name was already well-known abroad and he didn't have any problems finding demanding work. He threw himself into film work and contributed songs to about 100 movies.
- Father of actress Spoli Mills.
- The film-composer Mischa Spoliansky described himself as a lucky dog whose life represents a success story and from there it is more to view as boring.
- The Russian-born Mischa Spoliansky set the tone of Berlin of the 20s and 30s like no other composer. With his revues "Es liegt in der Luft" (1928), "Mir ist so nach dir", "Heute nacht oder nie", "Einmal möcht ich keine Sorgen haben" or "Berliner Frühlingslied" he hit the nerve of this big city.
- He grew up in a musical family and his talent was supported very early.
- Mischa Spoliansky reached the center of the cultural life of Berlin and got in touch with the most important artists of that time.
- When he arrived in Berlin he was offered the job of musical conductor at Max Reinhardt's Keller-Kabarett of the "Grosses Schauspielhaus".
- Besides his work for the film business he also wrote the musical "Katharina Knie" in 1957.
- Mischa Spoliansky developed an unmistakable style and had great successes with "Morphium" and "Lila Lied".
- Spoliansky set lyric, rousing and gibing words of young writers to catchy melodies.
- He got commissions for the film business and he became an in-demand composer of catchy melodies in the 30s.
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