THE WIZARD OF OZ – Herbert Stothart
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy Following the enormous commercial success of Walt Disney’s “Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs” (1937), MGM Studio Executive Louis Mayer was...
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Article by Craig Lysy Born: 11 September 1885, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Died: 1 February 1949. Herbert Stothart was born of Scottish and German ancestry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1885. He studied at...
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY – Herbert Stothart
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy In 1934 director Frank Lloyd was impressed by the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. He...
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THE GOOD EARTH – Herbert Stothart
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy Producer Irving Thalberg was keen on bringing the popular Pulitzer Prize winning novel “The Good Earth” to the big screen. His...
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RANDOM HARVEST – Herbert Stothart
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy The genesis of the film arose in 1940 when MGM Head Story Editor Kenneth MacKenna was advised to evaluate renown novelist James...
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MADAME CURIE – Herbert Stothart
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy In 1938 Universal Pictures sought and bought the film rights to the biography “Madame Curie” by Éve Curie, the subject’s daughter,...
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