Academy Award Winning Lyricist, Paul Francis Webster was nominated for the Academy Award 16 times. He wrote songs for Shirley Temple, and collaborated with Duke Ellington. He worked for 20th Century Fox and MGM and was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1950s. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972.

The auction catalog includes his items that were auctioned by Sotheby's Wednesday April 24, 1985.