Friedrich Hollaender
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I. Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Walter Mehring, Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked in venues like Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch ensemble at the Großes Schauspielhaus or the Wilde Bühne led by Trude Hesterberg at the Theater des Westens in Charlottenburg, where he established the Tingel-Tangel-Theater cabaret in 1931. In 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger, the couple divorced in 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Hollaender had his final breakthrough, when he wrote the film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", performed by Marlene Dietrich. He had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish descent[1] and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Academy Award nomination) and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair (on the songs, "Black Market", "Illusions" and "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nominations for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth, released in 1941, which details the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted the Nuremberg Laws. In 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich. He made a cameo appearance in Billy Wilder's film comedy One, Two, Three (1960) as a Kapellmeister. Hollaender died 1976 in Munich and is buried in the Obergiesing Ostfriedhof.
The Blue Angel
(Original Music Composer)
The Jungle Princess
(Music)
Leave It to Blondie
(Original Music Composer)
The Missing Juror
(Additional Music)
Golden Gloves
(Original Music Composer)
We're No Angels
(Original Music Composer)
Sabrina
(Original Music Composer)
The Tempest
(Music)
Background to Danger
(Original Music Composer)
Christmas in Connecticut
(Original Music Composer)
The Verdict
(Original Music Composer)
Seven Sinners
(Songs)
Strange Bargain
(Original Music Composer)
The Great McGinty
(Original Music Composer)
Princess O'Rourke
(Music)
Berlin Express
(Original Music Composer)
Born to Be Bad
(Original Music Composer)
Caught
(Original Music Composer)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
(Original Music Composer)
The Haunted Castle
(Original Music Composer)
A Dangerous Profession
(Original Music Composer)
Invitation to Happiness
(Original Music Composer)
Conflict
(Original Music Composer)
A Woman's Secret
(Original Music Composer)
You Belong to Me
(Original Music Composer)
Walk Softly, Stranger
(Original Music Composer)
My Forbidden Past
(Original Music Composer)
Honeymoon in Bali
(Original Music Composer)
The Affairs of Susan
(Original Music Composer)
Typhoon
(Original Music Composer)
The Only Girl
(Director)
Till We Meet Again
(Original Music Composer)
John Meade's Woman
(Original Music Composer)
Man About Town
(Original Music Composer)
Life with Henry
(Original Music Composer)
Safari
(Original Music Composer)
Desire
(Music)
I Am Suzanne!
(Music)
The Empty Center
(Music)
Angel
(Music)
Million Dollar Baby
(Music)
South of Suez
(Original Music Composer)
Once Upon a Time
(Original Music Composer)
Cinderella Jones
(Original Music Composer)
Zaza
(Music)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
(Music)
Adventure in Baltimore
(Original Music Composer)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(Original Music Composer)
It Should Happen to You
(Original Music Composer)
Easy Living
(Original Music Composer)
The First Time
(Original Music Composer)
Internes Can't Take Money
(Original Music Composer)
Wings for the Eagle
(Original Music Composer)
The Bride Wore Boots
(Original Music Composer)
Too Many Husbands
(Music)
Destry Rides Again
(Songs)
The Only Girl
(Director)
The Only Girl
(Music Arranger)
Bride for Sale
(Original Music Composer)
Never Say Goodbye
(Original Music Composer)
The Other
(Music)
Shanghai
(Original Music Composer)
Tumultes
(Original Music Composer)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
(Original Music Composer)
Midnight
(Original Music Composer)
The Perfect Marriage
(Original Music Composer)
Darling, How Could You!
(Original Music Composer)
A Son Comes Home
(Music)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
(Original Music Composer)
Accent on Youth
(Original Music Composer)
Phffft
(Original Music Composer)
A Foreign Affair
(Original Music Composer)
Anything Goes
(Songs)
In the act
(Songs)
Born Yesterday
(Original Music Composer)
Stallion Road
(Original Music Composer)
Queen of the Mob
(Original Music Composer)
Janie Gets Married
(Original Music Composer)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
(Songs)
Hands Across the Table
(Original Music Composer)
Burglars
(Original Music Composer)
Murder with Pictures
(Original Music Composer)
The Blue Angel
(Music)
Androcles and the Lion
(Original Music Composer)
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
(Songs)
Artists & Models
(Songs)
The Wife's Crusade
(Music Score Producer)
Rose of the Rancho
(Original Music Composer)
Remember the Night
(Original Music Composer)
Victory
(Original Music Composer)
Disputed Passage
(Original Music Composer)
Murder in the Big House
(Original Music Composer)
My Name Is Julia Ross
(Additional Music)
True Confession
(Original Music Composer)
Night Work
(Music)
Prinz Kuckuck
(Music)
Wallflower
(Original Music Composer)
The Talk of the Town
(Original Music Composer)
The Great Longing
(Music)
The Chance of a Lifetime
(Additional Music)
Footsteps in the Dark
(Original Music Composer)
The Man in Search of His Murderer
(Music)
Never a Dull Moment
(Music)
The Soul of a Monster
(Music)