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Herbert Stothart

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Composer 1885–1949

Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz. Stothart was widely acknowledged as a prominent member of the top tier of Hollywood composers during the 1930s and 1940s.

Also credited on10 works

Daffy Dill
Golden Dawn
Good Boy
Jimmie
Mary Jane McKane
Rose-Marie
Song of the Flame
The Wizard Of Oz
Tickle Me
Wildflower

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature5 passages

  • 92 Herbert Stothart (1885–1949), American composer and arranger who spent the last 20 years of his life working for MGM. His credits included A Night at the Opera for the Marx Brothers, The Wizard of Oz for which his background score won an Oscar, and Mrs. Miniver , which Bowles himself described in an article for Modern Music (November–D…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 68 . Others mentioned—“to name only a few”—include Hugo Riesenfeld, Erno Rapee, Edmund Meisel, Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Miklós Rósza, Herbert Stothart, and Franz Waxmann.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • Music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbachebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • Rose Marie (1924). Book and lyrics: Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II; music: Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart. Operetta set in the Canadian Rockies. By promising to marry Edward Hawley, Rose Marie La Flamme saves her true love, Canadian Mounted Policeman Jim Kenyon, who has been falsely accused of murder. Before long the police find…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • ROSE MARIE Book/Lyrics, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II; Music, Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart; Director, Jesse Cline; Set, Robert Kramer CAST: Nancy Slusser, Eric Wallbruch, Charles Nahale, Briantheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1998-99 Season, v. 55 (Willis).txt

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