Biografía y filmografía

Herbert Stothart

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Herbert P. Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz. Stothart was widely acknowledged as a member of the top tier of Hollywood composers during the 1930s and 1940s.

Life and career

Herbert Stothart was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied music in Europe and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he later taught.

Stothart was first hired by producer Arthur Hammerstein to be a musical director for touring companies of Broadway shows, and was soon writing music for the producer's nephew Oscar Hammerstein II. He composed music for the famous operetta, Rose-Marie. Stothart soon joined with many famous composers including Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin and Franz Lehár. Stothart achieved pop-chart success with standards like “Cute Little Two by Four”, “Wildflower”, “Bambalina”, “The Mounties”, “Totem Tom-Tom”, “Why Shouldn’t We?”, “Fly Away”, “Song of the Flame”, “The Cossack Love Song”, “Dawn”, “I Wanna Be Loved by You”, “Cuban Love Song”, “The Rogue Song” and “The Donkey Serenade.”

The year 1929 marked the end of the era of silent films. Shortly after completing his latest musical “Golden Dawn” with Oscar Hammerstein, Stothart received an invitation from Louis B. Mayer to move to Hollywood, which he accepted. In 1929, Stothart was signed to a large MGM contract.

The next twenty years of his life were spent at MGM Studios, where he was part of elite group of Hollywood composers. Among the many films that he worked on was the famous 1936 version of Rose-Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. He conducted and wrote songs and scores for the films The Cuban Love Song, The Good Earth, Romeo and Juliet, Mutiny on the Bounty, Mrs. Miniver, The Green Years and The Picture of Dorian Gray. His output included the Marx Brothers' Night at the Opera, the Leo Tolstoy romantic drama Anna Karenina, two Charles Dickens dramas (A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield), and Mutiny on the Bounty, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He won an Oscar for his musical score for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Herbert Stothart spent his entire Hollywood career at MGM. In 1947, he suffered a heart attack while visiting Scotland, and afterwards, composed an orchestral piece (Heart Attack: A Symphonic Poem), based on his tribulations. He worked on another (Voices of Liberation), commissioned by Roger Wagner Chorale, when he died two years later at the age of 63.

Fotos

Películas (106)

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · Thanks

Rose Marie

1954 · Songs

Big Jack

1949 · Original Music Composer

Hills of Home

1948 · Original Music Composer

The Three Musketeers

1948 · Original Music Composer

Three Daring Daughters

1948 · Original Music Composer

Desire Me

1947 · Original Music Composer

The Unfinished Dance

1947 · Music

High Barbaree

1947 · Original Music Composer

The Sea of Grass

1947 · Original Music Composer

The Yearling

1946 · Original Music Composer

Undercurrent

1946 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

The Green Years

1946 · Original Music Composer

They Were Expendable

1945 · Original Music Composer

The Valley of Decision

1945 · Original Music Composer

Son of Lassie

1945 · Music

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945 · Original Music Composer

National Velvet

1945 · Original Music Composer

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

1944 · Original Music Composer

Kismet

1944 · Original Music Composer

Dragon Seed

1944 · Music

The White Cliffs of Dover

1944 · Original Music Composer

A Guy Named Joe

1944 · Original Music Composer

Madame Curie

1943 · Music

Thousands Cheer

1943 · Original Music Composer

The Human Comedy

1943 · Music

Random Harvest

1942 · Music

Tennessee Johnson

1942 · Original Music Composer

Cairo

1942 · Music

I Married an Angel

1942 · Original Music Composer, Songs

Mrs. Miniver

1942 · Original Music Composer

Rio Rita

1942 · Music

We Must Have Music

1942 · Himself

The Chocolate Soldier

1941 · Original Music Composer

Smilin' Through

1941 · Original Music Composer

Blossoms in the Dust

1941 · Original Music Composer

Ziegfeld Girl

1941 · Music

Men of Boys Town

1941 · Music

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

1941 · Music Director

Come Live with Me

1941 · Original Music Composer

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940 · Self

Pride and Prejudice

1940 · Original Music Composer

Susan and God

1940 · Music

Waterloo Bridge

1940 · Original Music Composer

Edison, the Man

1940 · Music

Northwest Passage

1940 · Original Music Composer

Balalaika

1939 · Original Music Composer

Broadway Serenade

1939 · Music Director

Idiot's Delight

1939 · Music

Sweethearts

1938 · Original Music Composer

Marie Antoinette

1938 · Original Music Composer

Of Human Hearts

1938 · Music

Mannequin

1938 · Additional Music

The Firefly

1937 · Songs

Conquest

1937 · Original Music Composer

The Romance of Celluloid

1937 · Self

The Good Earth

1937 · Original Music Composer

Maytime

1937 · Songs, Original Music Composer

Camille

1936 · Original Music Composer

After the Thin Man

1936 · Original Music Composer

The Devil Is a Sissy

1936 · Music

Romeo and Juliet

1936 · Music

The Gorgeous Hussy

1936 · Music

San Francisco

1936 · Music

Absolute Quiet

1936 · Additional Music

Moonlight Murder

1936 · Original Music Composer

Robin Hood of El Dorado

1936 · Original Music Composer

Wife vs. Secretary

1936 · Original Music Composer

Rose Marie

1936 · Original Music Composer