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Herbert Stothart was an American composer and music director who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s. He composed the scores for over 100 films, including The Wizard of Oz (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), and The Philadelphia Story (1940). He was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one for The Wizard of Oz. Stothart was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 11, 1885. He studied music at the University of Wisconsin and the Berlin Conservatory. He began his career as a conductor in the theater, and later moved to Hollywood in the 1920s. Stothart composed the scores for many classic films, including The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Philadelphia Story, The Thin Man, and The Great Ziegfeld. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one for The Wizard of Oz. Stothart died in Hollywood on February 11, 1949. He was 63 years old.

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Occupation soundtrack,composer,music_department
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 11 September 1885
Birthday 11 September
Birthplace Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Date of death 1 February, 1949
Died Place Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality United States

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His wife is Mary Wolfe (? - 1 February 1949) ( his death) ( 2 children)

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1949

M-G-M's "in-house" and most prolific composer from the studio's earliest talkies until his death in 1949.

1939

Most importantly, perhaps, he became the first composer at MGM to win an Academy Award for a musical score for The Wizard of Oz (1939). Herbert Stothart spent his entire Hollywood career at MGM.

1937

He composed a number of songs, one of the best-known being the 'Donkey Serenade', sung by Allan Jones in The Firefly (1937).

1935

Many of his scores were for productions derived from literary classics, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Good Earth (1937) and Pride and Prejudice (1940). Stothart's preferred musical style was subtle and melodic, sometimes mournful, often prominently featuring violins.

He was prone to use leitmotifs from classical composers, for example in A Tale of Two Cities (1935) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) (Chopin), or Conquest (1937) and Waterloo Bridge (1940) (Tchaikovsky). In his dual capacity as musical director, Stothart also supervised or orchestrated almost all of the popular Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald operettas.

1929

In 1929, the success of 'talking pictures', combined with the popularity of musicals, prompted studio boss Louis B. Mayer to lure Stothart to Hollywood. Within just a few years, Stothart established himself as MGM's foremost film composer, working exclusively on the studio's prestige output.

1922

After 1922, Stothart's own original compositions began to be featured, and, within two years, he was able to celebrate his first major hit with the musical "Rose-Marie". "Rose-Marie" was written in conjunction with Rudolf Friml and ran for an impressive 557 performances at the Imperial Theatre. Stothart followed this success with the opera/ballet "Song of the Flame", co-written with George Gershwin.

1917

After three years on the road with various shows, Stothart scored his first Broadway musical, the farce "Furs and Frills", in October 1917. During the next decade, he continued a string of successful collaborations with top-flight composers, lyricists and playwrights, including Otto A. Harbach and Vincent Youmans.

1914

In 1914, Stothart was hired by legendary lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II as musical director for the Rudolf Friml operetta "High Jinks".

1885

Of Scottish and German ancestry, Herbert Stothart was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1885. At first, he was slated for a career as a teacher of history. However, he became enamored with music while singing in a school choir, and again, later, while attending the University of Wisconsin. There, he composed and conducted musicals for the Haresfoot Dramatic Club (the actor Otis Skinner was a noted alumnus). The success of one of these amateur productions, "Manicure Shop", which was staged professionally in Chicago, led to further musical studies in Europe, followed by full-time work as a composer for vaudeville and musical theatre.