Love In Bloom

Leo Robin at the Hollywood Palladium on July 29, 1955 with family and friends and the Palladium bandleader performing that evening, who came over to the table and joined the group. Standing from left to right: 1st-friend, 2nd-Fran Robin (Leo’s wife), 3rd-Leo, 4th-Harry Warren’s son-in-law, 5th-Gus Bivona (Leo’s brother-in-law and first clarinetist as well as the bandleader of the MGM Orchestra; he became television host Steve Allen’s sidekick). Seated from left to right: 1st-Lou Singer (Leo’s brother-in-law and a songwriter who wrote the famous depression anthem, “One Meatball"), 2nd-Harry Warren’s daughter, 3rd-Leo’s sister, 4th-Harry Warren’s wife, 5th-Ralph Martiri (bandleader, seated at the end of the table), 6th-friend, 7th-Leo’s youngest sister and 8th-Leo's niece.

After being together for more than 25 years, Leo Robin married Cherie Redmond, his longtime accountant and personal assistant. She had previously worked for the renowned Hecht Hill Lancaster Production Company and later was personal secretary to Marilyn Monroe. Leo and Cherie are pictured here in her daughter’s garden, where they were married on August 26, 1979. Cherie once said, “I knew I had to marry the man who wrote such wonderful love songs.” At their wedding, Leo sang to her “If I Should Lose You.”