Ray Heindorf
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a movie house in Mechanicville in his early teens. In 1928, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a musical arranger before heading to Hollywood. He gained his first job as an orchestrator at MGM, where he worked on Hollywood Revue of 1929, and subsequently went on the road playing piano for Lupe Vélez. After completing this engagement, he joined Warner Bros., composing and/or arranging and conducting music exclusively for the studio for nearly forty years. Heindorf, along with Georgie Stoll at MGM, were jazz aficionados well known in the black entertainment community for employing minority musicians in their studio music departments. He undertook the musical direction of Judy Garland's comeback film A Star is Born (1954) and made a cameo appearance as himself in the premiere party sequence where Jack Carson's character congratulates him on a great score. Among Heindorf's other screen credits are 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, The Great Lie, Knute Rockne All American, Kings Row, Night and Day, Tea for Two, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Jazz Singer, No Time for Sergeants, The Helen Morgan Story, Marjorie Morningstar, Damn Yankees, Auntie Mame, Finian's Rainbow, and his final musical for Jack L. Warner, 1776. Between 1943 and 1969 he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, 17 nominations for Best Score and 1 nomination for Best Song. Heindorf won three, in the category of Best Score of a Musical, for Yankee Doodle Dandy, This is the Army, and The Music Man. His wins for the former two films made him the first to accomplish consecutive wins in a musical category. Heindorf died in Tarzana, California, aged 71, and reputedly was buried with his favorite conducting baton.
The Male Animal
(Orchestrator)
It's a Great Feeling
(Music)
Up Periscope
(Music Supervisor)
A Star Is Born
(Original Music Composer)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
(Music Director)
Lucky Me
(Music Director)
I'll See You in My Dreams
(Music Director)
April in Paris
(Music Director)
The Roaring Twenties
(Original Music Composer)
The Sea Wolf
(Music Arranger)
Love and Learn
(Music Arranger)
Angels Wash Their Faces
(Orchestrator)
Arrowsmith
(Orchestrator)
Blowing Wild
(Music Director)
April Showers
(Original Music Composer)
Hollywood Hotel
(Music)
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
(Original Music Composer)
The Big Trees
(Music Director)
The Great Lie
(Orchestrator)
Come Fill the Cup
(Original Music Composer)
Come Fill the Cup
(Music Director)
A Streetcar Named Desire
(Music Director)
Dangerous
(Original Music Composer)
The Strawberry Blonde
(Orchestrator)
Men Are Such Fools
(Orchestrator)
Boy Meets Girl
(Music)
-30-
(Original Music Composer)
A Lost Lady
(Original Music Composer)
I Confess
(Music Director)
Strangers on a Train
(Music Director)
Big City Blues
(Original Music Composer)
Desirable
(Original Music Composer)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
(Original Music Composer)
Miracle in the Rain
(Music)
Alibi Ike
(Orchestrator)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
(Orchestrator)
Gentleman Jim
(Orchestrator)
Romance on the High Seas
(Orchestrator)
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
(Music Director)
Wonder Man
(Orchestrator)
Wonder Man
(Conductor)
Where's Charley?
(Music)
Flirtation Walk
(Music Arranger)
Crooner
(Original Music Composer)
Three Sailors and a Girl
(Original Music Composer)
Lullaby of Broadway
(Music Director)
The West Point Story
(Music Director)
Fashions of 1934
(Music Arranger)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
(Orchestrator)
The Helen Morgan Story
(Original Music Composer)
Pete Kelly's Blues
(Original Music Composer)
Young at Heart
(Original Music Composer)
Sincerely Yours
(Original Music Composer)
Rhapsody in Blue
(Original Music Composer)
1776
(Music Supervisor)
1776
(Conductor)
Backfire
(Music Director)
It's a Great Feeling
(Original Music Composer)
Gold Diggers in Paris
(Original Music Composer)
Adventures of Don Juan
(Music Supervisor)
Storm Warning
(Music Director)
Ready, Willing and Able
(Music Arranger)
Honeymoon for Three
(Orchestrator)
Stage Struck
(Music Arranger)
My Wild Irish Rose
(Original Music Composer)
The West Point Story
(Original Music Composer)
Up in Arms
(Music Arranger)
Up in Arms
(Conductor)
Sweet Music
(Music Arranger)
Cinderella Jones
(Orchestrator)
Four Mothers
(Orchestrator)
Four Wives
(Orchestrator)
Young Man with a Horn
(Music)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
(Orchestrator)
Colleen
(Music Arranger)
Footlight Parade
(Music Arranger)
Gold Diggers of 1935
(Music Arranger)
The Damned Don't Cry
(Music Director)
Secrets
(Orchestrator)
The Young Philadelphians
(Music Supervisor)
Broadway Gondolier
(Music Arranger)
Murder in the Clouds
(Original Music Composer)
Flight from Destiny
(Music Arranger)
The Kennel Murder Case
(Orchestrator)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
(Orchestrator)
Finian's Rainbow
(Original Music Composer)
Three on a Match
(Music Arranger)
Serenade
(Original Music Composer)
Serenade
(Music Director)
Go Into Your Dance
(Orchestrator)
The Hard Way
(Music Arranger)
Central Park
(Music)
Goodbye, My Fancy
(Music Director)
Romance on the High Seas
(Conductor)
My Love Came Back
(Music)
The Singing Kid
(Music Arranger)
A Star Is Born
(Music Director)
Calamity Jane
(Music Director)
Affectionately Yours
(Orchestrator)
Tea for Two
(Music Director)
Daughters Courageous
(Orchestrator)
Castle on the Hudson
(Music Arranger)
Knute Rockne All American
(Orchestrator)
Adam-12
(Music Supervisor)