Alfred Newman

...Film Editing , Original Score , and Sound . This movie is the final film project of composer Alfred Newman. Newman's health was failing at the time and so he was unable to conduct the sessions for the commercially-released recording of...

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...and Mr. Hyde" Nominations: Sound Recording, Gilbert Kurland, "The Bride of Frankenstein" 1939 Nominations: Best Music Score, Alfred Newman, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"; Best Sound Recording, John Aalberg, "The Hunchback of Notre...

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...based upon the 1958 novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Jerry Wald. Alfred Newman wrote the musical score, the last under his longtime contract as Fox's musical director. The film...

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...an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others: Awarded "Scoring of a Musical Picture" The King and I (1956) (with Alfred Newman) Nominated "Scoring of a Musical Picture" South Pacific (1958) (with Alfred Newman) Awarded...

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...comparison. One might ask why so much Williams to the exclusion of such film music icons as Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner and Alfred Newman? Answer: The audience seemed well-pleased with the more contemporary approach, and in the world of...

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...is a composer who was nominated in 1998 for an Academy Award for his work on Anastasia." His father is the renowned film composer Alfred Newman, who won a total of nine Oscars during his lifetime. USC's Alfred Newman Recital Hall, which...

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...lot of people over from the previous HOW THE WEST WAS WON including Lee J. Cobb, James Stewart, director Henry Hathaway and composer Alfred Newman. The flick is called CALL NORTHSIDE 777 and is part of the Fox Noir series, a few of which...

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...culminates in a hell of an intense robbery where Peppard (now a sheriff) and Lee J. Cobb hold off Wallach's gang. Final Thoughts: Alfred Newman provides a great, rousing score, the Technicolor photography is only made more beautiful by...

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...the Sundance Institute's composers lab. "We played a lot of fund-raising concerts with film projections," says Newman, a son of Alfred Newman, legendary head of music at Fox. "They did similar things at Lincoln Center, so I wouldn't say we...

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...LaVern Baker and Elvis Presley. But Newman says that Ray Charles was probably his biggest influence; Newman thinks he sounded like Ray Charles before he even heard him. And he remembers the rock-star stature of the conductor Toscanini and the...

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