Herbert Stothart
Herbert Stothart | |
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Born | Herbert Pope Stothart September 11, 1885 Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale |
Spouse | Mary Wolfe |
Children | 3 |
Awards | Best Original Score 1939 The Wizard of Oz |
Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was an American
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 initially hired by producer
The year 1929 marked the end of the era of silent films. Shortly after completing his latest musical, Golden Dawn, with Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Hammerstein, and Otto Harbach, Stothart received an invitation from Louis B. Mayer to move to Hollywood, an invitation which he accepted. In 1929, Stothart signed a substantial contract with MGM.
The next twenty years of his life were spent at
Herbert Stothart dedicated his entire Hollywood career to MGM. In 1947, while visiting Scotland, he suffered a
Awards
Stothart received 12 Academy Award nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
- 1939 Best Original Score Film – The Wizard of Oz
Academy Award Nominations:
- 1935 Best Scoring Film – Mutiny on the Bounty
- 1937 Best Scoring Film – Maytime
- 1938 Best Original Score Film – Marie Antoinette
- 1938 Best Scoring Film – Sweethearts
- 1940 Best Original Score Film – Waterloo Bridge
- 1941 Best Music, Scoring a Musical Picture – The Chocolate Soldier
- 1942 Best Music, Scoring a Dramatic or Comedy Film – Random Harvest
- 1943 Best Music, Scoring a Musical Picture – Thousands Cheer
- 1943 Best Music, Scoring a Dramatic or Comedy Film – Madame Curie
- 1944 Best Music, Scoring a Dramatic or Comedy Film – Kismet
- 1945 Best Music, Scoring a Dramatic or Comedy Film – The Valley of Decision
Works
Herbert Stothart's movie scores include:
- Devil-May-Care (1929)
- Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
- Queen Christina (1933)
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
- What Every Woman Knows (1934)
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- China Seas (1935)
- David Copperfield (1935 version)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Naughty Marietta (musical score only; the songs were by Victor Herbert, Rida Johnson Young, and Gus Kahn) (1935)
- A Night at the Opera (1935, which also used music by Giuseppe Verdi, Ruggero Leoncavallo, and Nacio Herb Brown, with some lyrics by Arthur Freed)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
- After the Thin Man (1936)
- The Good Earth (1937)
- Marie Antoinette (1938)
- Idiot's Delight (1939)
- The Wizard of Oz (Oscar: Best Original Score; songs by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen)
- Northwest Passage (1940 film by King Vidor)
- Pride and Prejudice (1940 version)
- Come Live With Me (1941)
- Blossoms in the Dust (additional uncredited music by Daniele Amfitheatrof) (1941)
- Mrs. Miniver (additional uncredited music by Daniele Amfitheatrof) (1942)
- I Married An Angel (1942)
- Random Harvest (1942)
- The Human Comedy (1943)
- Madame Curie (1943)
- National Velvet (1944)
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
- Dragon Seed (1944)
- The White Cliffs of Dover(1944)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (additional uncredited music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1945)
- They Were Expendable (1945 World War II film by John Ford) (1945)
- The Green Years (1946)
- The Yearling (arrangement of Frederick Delius's music) (1946)
- The Sea of Grass (1947)
Death
Herbert Stothart died of cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 63. He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.[1]
References
External links
- Herbert Stothart at IMDb
- Free scores by Herbert Stothart at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Herbert Stothart at Find a Grave
- Information on Herbert Stothart
- Herbert P. Stothart at the Internet Broadway Database
- New York Times
- Herbert Stothart at Songwriters Hall of Fame
- Herbert Stothart recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.