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John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	Here's the question you have all been waiting for, no doubt. Rebecca, 1941 classic film score by Waxman, had a clip of what other score mixed into the film? Hint: composer scored 315 films from 1929-1965, mostly for RKO and WBs. What is the film? It was reused in other films too by that composer. Name composer and film. For a bonus prize of a red star or gold star mention another film that composer reused the score in. Thanks, John. Good luck.
posted 07-28-2000 03:37 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	Further hint: the original score was done sometime between 1935-1939.
posted 07-28-2000 03:39 PM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Oscar® Winner	http://www.audiophilia.com/software/da50.htm http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/film/2000/may00/rebecca.htm The inserted piece is "Beatrice" by Max Steiner. From A STAR IS BORN. Inserted at the behest of David Selznick. (Gosh darn those fiendish tyrants!) Steiner-stuff from A STAR IS BORN was also recycled into SINCE YOU WENT AWAY at the behest of Selznick. But did Steiner himself choose to recycle his own stuff? Of his own free will and independently of productorial coercion? Inquiring minds wanna know.
posted 07-28-2000 04:16 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	Excellent. A+. JW.
posted 07-28-2000 07:04 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Ok, here's the one I posted on my first score trivia thread back at FSM, just hoping that nobody can remember it. In Spielberg's Always, the theme from what Golden Age score does Richard Dreyfuss whistle?
posted 07-29-2000 08:58 AM PT (US)

Lancelot Oscar® Winner	"The Quiet Man"? (Well, there's also the "Leave it to Beaver" theme....)
posted 07-29-2000 12:22 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	hmm, BLOODSUCKING FREAKS? oh wait, that's not Golden Age ... I remember this question, Marian, but not the answer. Embarrassing. It's something by Max Steiner, isn't it? NP: SESSO IN CONFESSIONALE (Morricone, sounds like a thriller score. It's the second half of a CD I picked up yesterday -- six bucks! -- which starts out with Morricone's HOLOCAUST 2000, a decent little horror score, similar to EXORCIST II, which is STILL NOT AVAILABLE ON CD!!!!) [This message has been edited by H Rocco (edited 29 July 2000).]
posted 07-29-2000 12:46 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	I really don't know, Marian, but it would be a typical Spiebergian in-joke if it were Herbert Stothart's theme from A Guy Named Joe.
posted 07-29-2000 02:11 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	I have seen Always a couple of times and I slightly remember our old discussion on this on the other board, but can't remember it. I do remember Treasure of Sierra Madre in City Slickers II and Adventures of Don Juan in Goonies that we have talked about before. Best, John.
posted 07-29-2000 04:21 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	In Fred Steiner's First to Fight score fore the Chad Everett/Gene Hackman Marine film, what Max Steiner score did he build the score around. Its seen in the film about one-third of way through the film. Best, John.
posted 07-29-2000 04:23 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	You're on the right trail, it IS a Max Steiner score (no surprise, as Spielberg calls Williams "the greatest composer of film music since Max Steiner"). To give one more clue, Gerhardt recorded a suite of this score for one of his "Classic film scores for [insert actor's name here]" albums. It's also one of the best whistling themes I can think of - I often whistle it myself. NP: Essential Goldsmith
posted 07-30-2000 06:34 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	Well, let's see now. Classic scores for Bogart or for Flynn or for Bette Davis? Is it "You Must Remember This" "As Time Goes By" from Casablanca, the tune actually written by Hupfeld in 1931? If not, I don't know which one it is. JW. If so, check my question above.
posted 07-30-2000 02:46 PM PT (US)

PeterD Oscar® Winner	As the person who eventually got the answer to Marian's question on the ol' FSM board -- but only after guessing pretty much every title in the Steiner filmography -- I can tell you it's not "Casablanca." But as you ponder Marian's question further, here's three more to consider: (1) Who was originally going to score the 1962 remake of "Mutiny on the Bounty," but turned it down to take another assignment instead? (2) The theme from what film was played at John Wayne's funeral? (3) What film composer made a cameo appearance in a John Ford movie, and what was the movie?
posted 07-30-2000 06:17 PM PT (US)

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