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Herbert Stothart is a Actor, Original Story, Sound and Additional Music American born on 11 september 1885 at Milwaukee

Herbert Stothart

Herbert Stothart
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Nationality USA
Birth 11 september 1885 at Milwaukee
Death 1 february 1949 (at 63 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Herbert Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was a songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.

Best films

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
(Original Music Composer)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
(Original Music Composer)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
(Original Music Composer)
The Yearling (1946)
(Original Music Composer)
Bathing Beauty (1944)
(Sound)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
(Original Music Composer)

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(91 films)
Adrian
Adrian
(46 films)
Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown
(17 films)
Hunt Stromberg
Hunt Stromberg
(20 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Herbert Stothart (120 films)

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Actor

The Romance of Celluloid, 10minutes
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Adrian, Cliff Edwards, Clark Gable, Gladys George, Virginia Grey, Robert Montgomery
Roles Self
Rating43% 2.167042.167042.167042.167042.16704
The film starts with a brief look at cotton being picked on a plantation in the southern USA, before cutting to the Kodak plant in Rochester, New York where the raw cotton is processed into cellulose which is treated with silver and other materials to make film stock. Behind the scenes at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California, where sets are being constructed, we see make-up artist Jack Dawn demonstrating his Abraham Lincoln make-up, costume designer Adrian sketching a dress for Jeanette MacDonald in The Firefly (1937), composer Herbert Stothart conducting the music for Conquest (1937), Virginia Grey doing her first screen test with Clark Gable, and candid footage of Robert Montgomery, Cliff Edwards, Rosalind Russell, Gladys George, Jessie Ralph, Maureen O'Sullivan and studio trainer Don Loomis. The film concludes with a montage from trailers for coming MGM pictures featuring the studio's parade of stars.

Scriptwriter

Sound

Rose Marie
Rose Marie (1954)
, 1h44
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main, Joan Taylor
Roles Songs
Rating57% 2.898642.898642.898642.898642.89864
Rose Marie Lemaître (Ann Blyth) rencontre Mike Malone (Howard Keel), policier canadien qui tente de l'utiliser afin de capturer James Duvall (Fernando Lamas), trappeur recherché, et amant de la jeune femme.
The Miniver Story, 1h44
Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Leo Genn, Cathy O'Donnell, Reginald Owen
Rating63% 3.1960653.1960653.1960653.1960653.196065
The story, told partly in flashback and narrated by Clem Miniver, commences on VE Day as Clem and Judy return home from war service and Toby returns from a foster family in America.
Big Jack
Big Jack (1949)
, 1h25
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold, Vanessa Brown, Clinton Sundberg
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60% 3.049343.049343.049343.049343.04934
À la frontière entre le Maryland et la Virginie en 1802, un jeune médecin est sur le point d'être pendu, lorsqu'il est sauvé par des hommes de la bande de Big Jack qui recherchent un médecin pour soigner le chef de la bande, blessé à la jambe.
The Three Musketeers, 2h5
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Gene Kelly, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Vincent Price, Lana Turner, Angela Lansbury
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70% 3.545123.545123.545123.545123.54512
D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly), an inexperienced Gascon youth, travels to Paris to join the elite King's Musketeers. On his way, he encounters a mysterious lady at a roadside inn. When he picks a fight with one of her escorts, she becomes suspicious and has him knocked unconscious. His letter of introduction from his father to de Treville (Reginald Owen), the commander of the Musketeers, is burned. When he awakens, he continues on to the city.
Hills of Home, 1h37
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Edmund Gwenn, Pal, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.2945453.2945453.2945453.2945453.294545
Dr. William MacLure (Edmund Gwenn) a Scottish doctor, adopts Lassie, who has an unnatural aversion to water. The Dr. tries to cure Lassie of her fears, but she remains water-shy.
Three Daring Daughters, 1h55
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell, Edward Arnold, Harry Davenport, Ann E. Todd
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61% 3.0975053.0975053.0975053.0975053.097505
It's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drakes School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful, divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan isn't there. Louise, an editor for Modern Design Publication, is lying in Dr. Cannon's office from fainting due to being over-worked and stressed-out. At home after the graduation ceremony, Dr. Cannon has a talk with Louise's three daughters, Tess, Ilka and Alix. He tells them that their mother needs a vacation badly, but the only way she can relax is if she goes without the girls. The girls agree, but Louise is reluctant; however, the girls convince her to go. The girls see their mother off on her one month Cuban cruise. When the girls get home they discuss their mother, and believe if they bring their father back home it will make their mom happy and healthy again. In reality, Louise has kept the truth about their father from them. Their father was actually a very uncaring man, who left them and left Louise to raise the girls on her own. The girls go to see their father's boss, Robert Nelson to locate their father and bring him home. Meanwhile on Louise's Cuban cruise, she meets famed pianist and conductor, Jose Iturbi. Jose is immediately taken by Louise, but she plays hard to get, while having the time of her life. When Louise finally returns home, she has a secret to tell the girls, but, the girls have a secret too.
Desire Me
Desire Me (1947)
, 1h31
Directed by Jack Conway, Mervyn LeRoy, George Cukor, Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Actors Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart, George Zucco, Morris Ankrum, Cecil Humphreys
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60% 3.0000753.0000753.0000753.0000753.000075
Marise Aubert aime son mari, Paul (Robert Mitchum), mais souffre d'un sentiment de culpabilité qu’elle confie au Dr Leclair (Cecil Humphreys), psychiatre.
High Barbaree, 1h31
Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Van Johnson, June Allyson, Claude Jarman Jr., Thomas Mitchell, Cameron Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell
Rating63% 3.193233.193233.193233.193233.19323
In Hawaii, during World War II, U.S. Navy pilot Alec Brooke (Van Johnson) commands a flying boat, named the "High Barbaree". During a bombing mission against a Japanese submarine, his PBY Catalina is shot down with all but one of his crew killed, but still able to stay afloat, adrift far from Allied territory. While the crippled aircraft is slowly floating, the two survivors hear the voice of "Tokyo Rose" (Audrey Totter) invoking memories of their past. Alec shares a series of recollections with fellow survivor, Lt. Joe Moore (Cameron Mitchell). His memories concern his boyhood sweetheart, Nancy Fraser (June Allyson), now a Navy nurse serving on a ship in the Pacific theater, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Thad Vail (Thomas Mitchell).
The Sea of Grass, 2h3
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62% 3.149213.149213.149213.149213.14921
The film opens in St. Louis, Missouri, on Lutie Cameron's (Katharine Hepburn) wedding day. She has had a short courtship with a cattle rancher of New Mexico. As she dresses, she receives a telegram from her fiancé Col. Brewton (Spencer Tracy) telling her to board the train for New Mexico to marry him in the small town of Salt Fork. The first person she meets in town is Brice Chamberlain (Melvyn Douglas), who warns her of likely unhappiness with Brewton, locally considered a tyrant. He takes her to the courthouse, where she sees Brewton testifying against a settler who had tried to stake a claim to part of the government-owned land where Brewton runs his cattle.
If Winter Comes, 1h37
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, Binnie Barnes, May Whitty
Rating62% 3.148383.148383.148383.148383.14838
Set in the English village Penny Green in 1939, the film focuses on Mark Sabre, an author and publisher who is unhappily married to Mabel, a humorless and cold woman who usually spends her days gossiping with the townspeople. When Mark finds out his former sweetheart Nona Tybar is returning to Penny Green, Mark, unlike his wife, is delighted. Nona is married to a man named Tony Tyber, but is still in love with Mark. Mabel is aware of Mark's feelings for Nona, and encourages him to spend time with her, thinking he will eventually decide with whom he wants to spend his life.
The Unfinished Dance, 1h41
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Margaret O'Brien, Cyd Charisse, Danny Thomas, Esther Dale, Karin Booth, Thurston Hall
Roles Music
Rating64% 3.2435853.2435853.2435853.2435853.243585
Aspiring ballerina Meg Merlin idolizes the head of her dance school, Ariane Bouchet, so much so that she often neglects her own studies just to watch Ariane dance. Only the intervention of kindly Mr. Paternos keeps her from being expelled.
Undercurrent, 1h56
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main, Clinton Sundberg
Roles Conductor
Rating64% 3.245013.245013.245013.245013.24501
Ann Hamilton (Katharine Hepburn) is a middle-aged bride who begins to suspect that her charming husband Alan Garroway (Robert Taylor) plans to murder her. Nor can she ignore the shadow of her brother-in-law Michael Garroway (Robert Mitchum), whom she's never met but has been told so much about.