Henry Nemo

In 1941, Nemo formed his own 19-piece band. The group featured four Chinese women as singers. Playing on his nickname, "The Neme," the band's slogan was "Hit the Beam with the Neme."

Nemo's first hit composition was "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart."{{cite news |last1=Lyons |first1=Leonard |title=Broadway Medley |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4705741/shamokin_newsdispatch/ |newspaper=Shamokin News-Dispatch |date=May 3, 1941 |location=Shamokin, Pennsylvania |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=March 21, 2016}} {{Open access}} He also composed the song standards "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "'Tis Autumn", both published in 1941. He also composed the incidental music and lyrics for the 1959 Broadway production of Saul Levitt's play The Andersonville Trial directed by José Ferrer and starring George C. Scott.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-andersonville-trial-2874 |title=The Andersonville Trial |work=Internet Broadway Database}}

Nemo worked with Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Mildred Bailey, Tommy Dorsey.{{fact|date=January 2025}} Artie Shaw recorded his song "Don't Take Your Love from Me" in 1941 with a band of mostly African-American musicians accompanying African-American vocalist Lena Horne.{{fact|date=January 2025}}

In 1947, Henry Nemo appeared in Song of the Thin Man, a murder mystery-comedy directed by Edward Buzzell, which is the sixth and final film in MGM's Thin Man series. It starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, based on characters created by Dashiell Hammett. Henry Nemo played the character called The Neem.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} In 1989, Nemo appeared in The Plot Against Harry, a film made in 1969 by independent filmmakers Michael Roemer and Robert M. Young.{{cite news |first=Vicki |last=Vasilopoulos |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E0DC1F3CF937A25752C1A9629C8B63 |title=New Life for a 1964 Film |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 14, 2004 |access-date=October 20, 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/178/year/1990.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The Plot Against Harry |website=Cannes Film Festival (1990) |access-date=October 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308213738/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/178/year/1990.html |archive-date=March 8, 2012}}

Nemo is credited as having been the inspiration for the Starkist tuna advertising mascot, Charlie the Tuna.{{cite news |last1=Aaron |first1=Jane |title='Sorry, Charlie' reminiscent of 1940s yet steadily fades from modern speech |url=http://www.lincolnjournalonline.com/news/2017-04-06/Front_Page/Sorry_Charlie_reminiscent_of_1940s_yet_steadily_fa.html |access-date=November 1, 2017 |work=The Lincoln Journal |date=April 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107020949/http://www.lincolnjournalonline.com/news/2017-04-06/Front_Page/Sorry_Charlie_reminiscent_of_1940s_yet_steadily_fa.html |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |url-status=dead}}

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• [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/139945/Nemo_Henry_composer Information about some of Nemo's recordings at Discography of American Historical Recordings]

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