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Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen.
He worked in England, then Broadway, and moved to Hollywood in 1929 where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Steiner is referred to as "the father of film music" and is considered one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema. Along with such composers as Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman and Miklós Rózsa, Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films.
Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), Casablanca (1942), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind (1939).
He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford and William Wyler, and scored many of the films with Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Fred Astaire. Many of his film scores are available as separate soundtrack recordings.
Arrivé au Royaume-Uni en 1914, il obtient un visa pour les États-Unis grâce au duc de Westminster. Pendant 15 ans, il travaille comme chef d'orchestre à New York ou arrangeur à Broadway.
En 1929, il part à Hollywood afin d'orchestrer le film Rio Rita (film, 1929) pour la RKO Radio Pictures. En 1933, la bande originale de King Kong lance sa carrière. Il compose pour des dizaines de films parmi lesquels Casablanca, Arsenic et vieilles dentelles, Le Rebelle, Autant en emporte le vent, Ils n'ont que vingt ans (A Summer Place)...
Il meurt à Hollywood âgé de 83 ans.
(1940)
(Original Music Composer)
(1941)
(Original Music Composer)
(2009)
(Sound)
(1943)
(Original Music Composer)
(1956)
(Original Music Composer)
(1943)
(Sound)
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Birth name Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner
Nationality Austria
Birth 10 may 1888 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 28 december 1971 (at 83 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Nationality Austria
Birth 10 may 1888 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 28 december 1971 (at 83 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen.
He worked in England, then Broadway, and moved to Hollywood in 1929 where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Steiner is referred to as "the father of film music" and is considered one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema. Along with such composers as Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman and Miklós Rózsa, Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films.
Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), Casablanca (1942), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind (1939).
He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford and William Wyler, and scored many of the films with Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Fred Astaire. Many of his film scores are available as separate soundtrack recordings.
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Il naît dans une famille juive cultivée : son père est directeur de théâtre et il a pour parrain Richard Strauss. Très jeune, il montre des dons prodigieux pour la composition. Il étudie la musique avec Gustav Mahler et Johannes Brahms. Dès l'âge de 16 ans, il écrit une opérette.Arrivé au Royaume-Uni en 1914, il obtient un visa pour les États-Unis grâce au duc de Westminster. Pendant 15 ans, il travaille comme chef d'orchestre à New York ou arrangeur à Broadway.
En 1929, il part à Hollywood afin d'orchestrer le film Rio Rita (film, 1929) pour la RKO Radio Pictures. En 1933, la bande originale de King Kong lance sa carrière. Il compose pour des dizaines de films parmi lesquels Casablanca, Arsenic et vieilles dentelles, Le Rebelle, Autant en emporte le vent, Ils n'ont que vingt ans (A Summer Place)...
Il meurt à Hollywood âgé de 83 ans.
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The Desert Song (1953)
, 1h50Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas, Operetta films
Actors Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Raymond Massey, Steve Cochran, Dick Wesson, William Conrad
Rating61%
The original plot is more-or-less adhered to, with some significant alterations. Benny is depicted as a comic Bob Hope-like coward, but not as a sissy. El Khobar's alter ego is that of a mild-mannered (but not squeamish) Latin tutor and anthropologist, whom Birabeau (Ray Collins) hires to keep Margot (Kathryn Grayson) from flirting with his regiment.
Stingaree (1934)
, 1h17Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland, Conway Tearle, Andy Devine, Henry Stephenson
Roles Musical
Rating58%
In 1874 Australia, newly installed Police Inspector Radford boasts to wealthy Hugh Clarkson that he will capture the famous outlaw Stingaree, who has returned to the area. Hilda Bouverie is an impoverished servant working for the Clarksons. Mr. Clarkson is kind, but his wife treats Hilda and Annie, another servant, as menials. Mrs. Clarkson is excited by the news that Sir Julian Kent, a renowned British composer, is going to be her guest. She dreams of performing before him and becoming an opera star, but her singing is not good. Hilda begs to be allowed to sing as well, but Mrs. Clarkson turns her down. Meanwhile, Sir Julian stops over at a tavern, where Radford and his colleagues are drinking. When Stingaree enters, the policemen are suspicious of the stranger; he is searched, but no weapon is found. His sidekick Howie follows, only he is armed. They abduct Sir Julian. Unaware of this, Mrs. Clarkson goes off to meet Sir Julian.
Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
, 1h11Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Gertrude Michael, Regis Toomey, Tully Marshall
Roles Musical
Rating66%
Miss Withers (Edna May Oliver) discovers the dead body of her colleague, music teacher Louise Halloran (Barbara Fritchie), in a schoolroom. She summons her old friend, Inspector Oscar Piper (James Gleason), but by the time he arrives, the corpse has disappeared. Having watched the only entrance (other than a fire exit with an alarm), Miss Withers knows the killer must still be inside. When the police search the building, Detective Donahue (Edgar Kennedy) is knocked out in the basement. Meanwhile, Miss Withers notices various clues, including a tune on the blackboard in Halloran's classroom. The body is found being burned in the basement furnace. Then, the fire alarm goes off; the murderer has escaped.
Where Sinners Meet (1934)
Directed by J. Walter Ruben
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen, Alan Mowbray, Gilbert Emery
Roles Musical
Rating57%
Leonard and Anne drive along the lovers' road to Dover, intending to embark for Calais and go to Paris. The car breaks down and Saunders takes them to a nearby hotel, which turns out to be a residence with servants, owned by a Mr. Latimer. They are told they cannot leave for seven days so that they can see if a marriage between them will work. The next day, Anne begins to notice things about Leonard that she ignored before. Another couple in the house are about to leave after seven days—Leonard's wife Eustasia and her lover Nicholas.
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Micmacs (2009)
, 1h45Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Dany Boon, Dominique Pinon, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau, Julie Ferrier
Rating70%
The main character is Bazil (Dany Boon), whose father was killed attempting to defuse a land mine when Bazil was a child. The film begins with his father's death and then jumps 30 years later to Bazil working in a video rental shop in Paris. Bazil is watching The Big Sleep on a small television. The ending of The Big Sleep segues into the opening credits of Micmacs, shot in the old style in black and white with extended production credits.
, 2h4Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Christopher Plummer, George Cukor, Arthur E. Arling, Tallulah Bankhead, Susan Hayward, Margaret Tallichet
Rating84%
Those Calloways (1965)
, 2h11Directed by Norman Tokar, Tom Leetch
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon deWilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn, Linda Evans
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating64%
La famille Calloway vit dans la forêt juste en dehors de la petite ville de Swiftwater en Nouvelle-Écosse. Le père Cam rêve de construire un sanctuaire pour les oies sauvages qui migrent. Mais la population de la ville trouve Cam trop excentrique. Cam et son fils Bucky décident d'amasser des fourrures pour récolter assez d'argent pour acheter un lac. Mais la somme récoltée ne suffit pas et ils sont contraints de vendre leur maison. La famille construit une nouvelle maison au bord du lac mais un promoteur envisage de construire une zone de loisirs dans la petite ville. Il propose à Cam en échange d'argent et de promesses d'aider à construire le sanctuaire de planter un champ de maïs pour attirer les oiseaux. Cam apprend par la suite que le but du promoteur est de faire un plan d'eau pour la chasse aux oies.
Two on a Guillotine (1965)
Directed by William Conrad
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Ghost films
Actors Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg, John Hoyt
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
A prologue introduces the audience to John Harley Duquesne, a psychotic magician who accidentally beheads his wife Melinda with a guillotine during a performance. Twenty years later he dies, and his will requires his daughter Cassie (the mirror image of her mother) to spend seven nights in his apparently haunted mansion in order to inherit his estate.
A Distant Trumpet (1964)
, 1h57Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, William Reynolds, James Gregory, Diane McBain, Claude Akins
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61%
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
Youngblood Hawke (1964)
, 2h17Directed by Delmer Daves, Robert Totten
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers
Actors James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor, Lee Bowman
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
Based on the 1962 novel of the same name, Youngblood Hawke is about a Kentucky truck driver, (James Franciscus), who moves to New York City with dreams of becoming a hot-shot writer. Almost immediately he meets editor Jeanne Green, (Suzanne Pleshette). She sees great promise in Hawke's writing and falls for the handsome Kentuckian while helping him put together his first book deal. His first novel is moderately successful, but is soon transformed into a Broadway play by a has-been stage actress. Jeanne discovers that Youngblood has an effect on a great many women, so she takes a new job at a new publishing company. Soon after, Hawke's second novel is heralded and he becomes the toast of the town. He then has an affair with a married socialite. His third novel bombs and is also panned by critics. Hawke's financial state declines and he has to move back to Kentucky. While in Kentucky working on his next book, he contracts pneumonia just before realizing that Jeanne was his true ideal woman.
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
, 1h58Directed by Delmer Daves, Robert Totten
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur, Donald Crisp, Mimsy Farmer, Wally Cox
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69%
The film centers on the trials and tribulations of the Spencers, a family living in the Grand Teton Mountains of Wyoming during the early 1960s. As the patriarch of a large and growing family, Clay Spencer (Henry Fonda) is fiercely independent, yet dedicated to his family. While he resists the influence of religion, he struggles to remain faithful to his wife Olivia (Maureen O'Hara), to allow his son (James MacArthur) to attend college, and to build a new home for his family.
FBI Code 98 (1963)
, 1h44Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Kelly, William Reynolds, Ray Danton, Merry Anders, Andrew Duggan, Philip Carey
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59%
The president of an electronics company, Alan Nichols (Andrew Duggan), and his two vice presidents, Robert Cannon (Jack Kelly) and Fred Vitale (Ray Danton), are required at Cape Canaveral to oversee the test launching of a missile which their company developed. But before they are able to board the plane to take them there one of their suitcases is switched for one containing a bomb. Cannon opens his luggage when the men are in mid air and discovers the bomb, and his colleague Vitale manages to disarm it. The FBI is called in to determine whether this is a case of attempting to murder Cannon, whose suitcase contained the bomb, or an attempt to sabotage the air plane.
Rome Adventure (1962)
, 1h59Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi, Suzanne Pleshette, Constance Ford, Hampton Fancher
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
New England librarian Prudence Bell (Suzanne Pleshette) recommended a book, Lovers Must Learn, to one of her students. After defending herself and the book, she resigns telling the school board she's going to Rome where she will be surrounded by people who really know the meaning of love. Sailing from New York she picks the wrong man as a protective consort, providing two potential romantic interests. Albert Stillwell, a student of Etruscan history is a perfect gentlemen, while Roberto Orlandi (Rossano Brazzi) is the perfect mature Roman lover.
The Chapman Report (1962)
, 2h5Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Ty Hardin, Glynis Johns, Efrem Zimbalist II
Rating55%
Los Angeles psychologist Chapman (Andrew Duggan) and his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr) are looking for volunteers for their sex survey, and four women volunteer: Sarah Garnell (Shelley Winters), a middle-aged woman who is having an affair with young theater director Fred Linden (Ray Danton); Teresa Harnish (Glynis Johns), a happily married woman who becomes attracted to brawny football player Ed Kraski (Ty Hardin); Naomi Shields (Claire Bloom), an alcoholic nymphomaniac who takes up with an unsavory jazz musician; and Kathleen Barclay (Jane Fonda), a young widow who thinks she is frigid.
Parrish (1961)
, 2h18Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens, Diane McBain
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating64%
The movie shows the story of conflict between a young independently minded man and his stepfather, a ruthless tobacco tycoon.