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Topic: The Year You Were Born
JohnT
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1993 did seem to be a good year, but I decided to check up on who scored what in the above year, namely 1952.
Victor Young was the busiest composer with 10 scores including The Quiet Man and The Greatest Show on Earth.
Dmitri Tiomkin worked on 9 films, probably the best known being High Noon and The Big Sky (the latter being the better one IMO).
Hugo Friedhofer comes next with 7. The Outcast Of Poker Flats and, according to Tony Thomas, Rancho Notorious - but other sources state Emil Newman. Was Friedhofer's score rejected?
Max Steiner weighed in with 6; Room For One More, and yet another western for this year - Springfield Rifle.
Alfred Newman score 5, including a musical, but two of his original scores were for What Price Glory and the delightful Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie!
David Raksin follows next on 4, Carrie and The Bad and The Beautiful standing out.
Alex North and Franz Waxman both composed three scores each. The former with Viva Zapata, Les Miserables and Pony Soldier, and the latter My Cousin Rachel, Phone Call From A Stranger and Lure Of The Wilderness.
Finally three composers worked on just two films each. Miklos Rozsa scored Ivanhoe and Plymouth Adventure. Bernard Herrmann The Snows Of Kilimanjaro and Five Fingers; and a young man started his career with the Battles Of Chief Pontiac and Sudden Fear - Elmer Bernstein.
Not a bad year really. All those great names working away.
Anyone else checked out their own year to see what was happening?
posted 08-21-2000 11:42 PM PT (US) Widescreen
Oscar® Winner
The year was 1975 for me, and the month and week I was born featured a prominent movie still seated at #1 that ****ed off a lot of beach businesses-- namely Jaws. Odd, considering it is theonly Spielberg movie I don't return to on a regular basis. In fact, the last time I sat down to watch, I fell asleep during the mid fifteen minutes of the last act. I think Speilberg is one of the best directors that ever came to film- but this is not my favorite movie of his. I'm not saying it's a bad movie, I'm not saying I hated Jaws, I'm simply saying it's not one I own. I do think it has a memorable score, but one I do not own, I think it has a great cast and without the music and direction, the film would simply discarded into the annals of film history. posted 08-22-2000 06:45 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB