Herbert Stothart
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Pride and Prejudice
(Original Music Composer)
Mutiny on the Bounty
(Original Music Composer)
Kismet
(Original Music Composer)
The Valley of Decision
(Original Music Composer)
Undercurrent
(Original Music Composer)
The Human Comedy
(Music)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(Original Music Composer)
The Unfinished Dance
(Music)
The Green Years
(Original Music Composer)
Men of Boys Town
(Music)
The Cuban Love Song
(Musical)
Ah, Wilderness!
(Original Music Composer)
Cairo
(Music)
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
(Music Director)
The Lottery Bride
(Original Story)
Come Live with Me
(Music)
The Sea of Grass
(Original Music Composer)
The Squaw Man
(Music)
Romeo and Juliet
(Music)
Rasputin and the Empress
(Music)
The White Sister
(Music)
Queen Christina
(Music)
Riptide
(Music)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
(Music)
The Devil Is a Sissy
(Music)
The Three Musketeers
(Original Music Composer)
I Married an Angel
(Original Music Composer)
Balalaika
(Original Music Composer)
A Tale of Two Cities
(Original Music Composer)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Original Music Composer)
Camille
(Original Music Composer)
Desire Me
(Original Music Composer)
Waterloo Bridge
(Original Music Composer)
After the Thin Man
(Original Music Composer)
Son of Lassie
(Music)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
(Music)
A Night at the Opera
(Music)
The Wizard of Oz
(Original Music Composer)
San Francisco
(Music)
The Gorgeous Hussy
(Music)
Viva Villa!
(Original Music Composer)
Edison, the Man
(Music)
Rio Rita
(Music)
The Firefly
(Songs)
Of Human Hearts
(Music)
A Guy Named Joe
(Original Music Composer)
Chained
(Original Music Composer)
Dragon Seed
(Music)
China Seas
(Original Music Composer)
The Night Is Young
(Conductor)
Golden Dawn
(Songs)
Broadway Serenade
(Music Director)
Northwest Passage
(Original Music Composer)
Rose Marie
(Original Music Composer)
Moonlight Murder
(Original Music Composer)
Robin Hood of El Dorado
(Original Music Composer)
Wife vs. Secretary
(Original Music Composer)
The Song of the Flame
(Songs)
Queen Christina
(Music Director)
Sequoia
(Original Music Composer)
What Every Woman Knows
(Original Music Composer)
Treasure Island
(Original Music Composer)
Laughing Boy
(Original Music Composer)
Mrs. Miniver
(Original Music Composer)
Blossoms in the Dust
(Original Music Composer)
The White Cliffs of Dover
(Original Music Composer)
National Velvet
(Original Music Composer)
The Yearling
(Original Music Composer)
Smilin' Through
(Original Music Composer)
I Married an Angel
(Songs)
The Florodora Girl
(Songs)
Maytime
(Songs)
Madam Satan
(Songs)
Rose Marie
(Songs)
David Copperfield
(Original Music Composer)
Thousands Cheer
(Original Music Composer)
Big Jack
(Original Music Composer)
Three Daring Daughters
(Original Music Composer)
New Moon
(Songs)
In Gay Madrid
(Songs)
The Good Earth
(Original Music Composer)
A Lady's Morals
(Songs)
The Cuban Love Song
(Music Score Producer)
The Cuban Love Song
(Songs)
The Chocolate Soldier
(Original Music Composer)
The Florodora Girl
(Original Music Composer)
The Son-Daughter
(Music Score Producer)
The Son-Daughter
(Original Music Composer)
Sweethearts
(Original Music Composer)
Maytime
(Original Music Composer)
Madam Satan
(Music)
Marie Antoinette
(Original Music Composer)
Undercurrent
(Conductor)
The Painted Veil
(Original Music Composer)
Night Flight
(Music)
Conquest
(Original Music Composer)
Mannequin
(Additional Music)
Absolute Quiet
(Additional Music)
They Were Expendable
(Original Music Composer)
Susan and God
(Music)
Hills of Home
(Original Music Composer)
Tennessee Johnson
(Original Music Composer)
Anna Karenina
(Original Music Composer)
Madame Curie
(Music)
Random Harvest
(Music)
Idiot's Delight
(Music)
Call of the Flesh
(Songs)
Ziegfeld Girl
(Music)