- Recipient of the Austria Cross for Arts and Sciences and Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor.
- In 1940 he emigrated to the USA definitely where he lived till 1948.
- He began to compose first own songs, among others for the cabaret "Hölle", and continued to work for different cabarets in the next years and he wrote numerous songs with frivolous and funny contents.
- In 1938 he went to the USA but returned to Switzerland briefly afterwards.
- To his last cinematical works belong "Damals" (1943), Min syster och jag" (1950), "Verklungenes Wien" (1951), "Der König mit dem Regenschirm" (1954) and "Meine Schwester und ich" (1954). Normally these were filmings of his former operettas.
- From 1930 he wrote film compositions for "Der unsterbliche Lump" (1930), "Die letzte Kompagnie" (1930), "Ihre Durchlaucht, die Verkäuferin" (1933), the operetta filming "Im weissen Rössl" (1935) and "Die ganz grossen Torheiten" (1937).
- When the political situation changed in Germany which Ralph Benatzky became aware very soon he already left Germany in 1932 and went to Switzerland.
- He first began a military career but he was released from the army when he became ill. Instead he began to study music, philosophy and German philology in Vienna.
- His music was used for the cinema in 1928 for the first time when his operetta "Casanova" (1928) was filmed of the same name.
- When he wrote some songs for Zarah Leander for her movie "Zu neuen Ufern" (1937). He created two big hits with the songs "Yes, Sir!" and "Ich steh im Regen".
- Benatzky is often mistakenly referred to as Jewish due to an error published in a book of Jewish musicians during World War II. Benatzky himself was not Jewish, but he was twice married to Jewish women: Josma Selim, a singer (Hedwig Josma Fischer; born 1884 in Wien; died 1929 in Berlin) and Melanie "Mela" Hoffmann, a dancer.[.
- Besides operettas he also composed several revues like "Adieu Mimi" (1926), "Meine Schwester und ich" (1930), "Bezauberndes Fräulein" (1933) and "Das kleine Café" (1934).
- He wrote his first operetta in 1910 and in the next years followed other operettas for which he became famous. To these operettas belong "Casanova" (1928), "Die drei Musketiere" (1929) and of course his most popular operetta "Im weissen Rössl" (1930).
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