Elizabeth - Music

Herbert Stothart September 11 1885 – February 1 1949 Was A Song Writer Arranger And Composer. He Was Also Nominated For Nine Oscars Winning For His Background Music For The Wizard Of Oz. 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. He Composed Some Of The Music In The Famous Operetta Rose Marie. Stothart Soon Joined With Many Famous Playwrights Including Vincent Youmans George Gershwin And Franz Lehar. In 1929 Stothart Was Signed To A Large Hollywood Contract By Another Would-Be Playwright Of The Day Louis B. Mayer. The Last Twenty Years Of His Life Were Spent At MGM Studios Where He Was Under Contract As A Composer. One Of The Films That He Worked On Was The Famous 1936 Version Of Rose Marie Starring Jeanette MacDonald And Nelson Eddy. He Died In Los Angeles California At The Age Of 63. Herbert Stothart Is Credited As The Composer Of *Devil-May-Care 1929 *Rasputin And The Empress 1932 *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 *After The Thin Man 1936 *The Good Earth 1937 *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 *Blossoms In The Dust 1941 *Mrs. Miniver 1942 *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 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 read less