We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
Bernstein was another composer whom my late father admired so I heard a lot about Elmer early on, and of course his rousing score from The Magnificent 7 of 1960 became a “standard” that was played regularly on radio musical request programs over the years. Indeed historians have expressed surprise that it was nominated for, but did not win, an Oscar, losing out to Paul Newman’s Exodus theme.
Nevertheless posterity has well-remembered Elmer because on 3 polls that I have seen of all-time great film composers he is ranked 16th, 19th and even as high as 3rd. IMDB credits him with 30 movie awards overall and 39 nominations.
Certainly if your video about his work is your final entry in the current film musicians series it is worthy of that honor and I rate it highly at 98%.
Best STILLS entire 42 entries (1) Dino (2) Stripes (3) Walk on the Wild Side (4) Frank & Kim (5) hooker Jamie Lee (6) Hank Fonda with Mother Bates’ son (7) True Grit indeed! (8) the Ghostbusters! (9) Airplane (10) the “Seven” and (11) “Let my people go!” – In his Daily Telegraph column a week or so ago Boris actually urged Mother Theresa to instruct the European Union in that fashion.
Roy Webb’s output as a film musician was enormous but he does seem to be one of those artists with a low profile in the general public domain . I could find mention of him in just 2 polls of all-time great film musicians and in them he was ranked a lowly 42nd and 49th. However I rate your profile of him an easy 97.5%
Here is my own pick of the best POSTERS from entries 40-21 in your Webb video. FL=foreign language (1) 2 for Duke’s Blood Alley (2) FL for Sinbad (3) 1st one for Sea Chase (4) Bedlam (5) 7th Victim (6) both for Mighty Joel Young (7) 2nd one for Bruce’s Pet (8) Stranger on 3rd Floor (9) FL for Journey into Fear and (10) Houdini. I saw the latter when it was released in 1953 on a double bill with Chuck’s Arrowhead.
Best POSTERS1-20 (1) Curse of Cat People (2) 1st one for Enchanted Cottage (3) 1st one for Crossfire with the 3 Roberts (4) both for Cat People (5) I Walked with a Zombie (6) I Remember Myrna (7) 1st one for Body Snatcher (8) raunchy one for Murder my Sweet (9) Out of the Past and (10) FL for Bringing Up Baby.
Best STILLS entire video (1) “Jamar” as stepmom Mary Pickford nicknamed him with Mo O’Hara (2) The Duke & Lana (3) Randy and friends (4) lobby card for Last Days of Pompeii (5) a very Sexy “Cat” (6) Veronica Lake (7) Archie & Randy (8) “Marty” (9) a non-Brexiteer Boris looking like a sinister Hirsch-type (10) Dunne and Boyer – a usually overlooked screen team who made 3 movies together according to The Work Horse (11) Dick Powell with [I think] Claire Trevor and (12) a fine closing 3-still Al Leach montage.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating and info, much appreciated.
Glad you liked the picture gallery.
I count 7 films out of 40 in full colour, seems low budget and monochrome was Roy Webb’s speciality. IMO he was an underrated composer, deserves more recognition.
There are 8 films scoring 10 out of 10 from Webb’s scoresheet –
Bringing Up Baby
Notorious
Out of the Past
Murder My Sweet
Love Affair
The Body Snatcher
Marty
Stage Door
Six more scored 9 out of 10 including I Walked with a Zombie and The Spiral Staircase.
One more film composer on friday. All 12 composers in this wave of video’s are sadly no longer with us, if I start a new series in a few months time they will be more up to date and some will still be alive (hopefully). 🙂
Meanwhile Brexit has been delayed again, till Halloween. [groan]
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feedback and additional information.
That Roy Webb seems to be one of the less famous among film composers but you have been able to compile a comprehensive video of the movies that encompass his work only goes to demonstrate your own general familiarity with music’s essential contribution to movies. Well done.
Will be checking out Steve’s latest You Tube videos today. Good thoughts on Webb and Bernstein by Bob. Makes for interesting reading. Even with an anti-Hirsch comment in there…lol.
For some of the composers you’ve been discussing and because I can’t link it to the conversations.
Miklos Rosza had 54 Oscar winners in films he composed scores for.
ANNE BAXTER Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
ANTHONY QUINN Lust for Life (1956)
BARRY FITZGERALD The Naked City (1948)
BURT LANCASTER Brute Force (1947)
BURT LANCASTER Criss Cross (1949)
BURT LANCASTER Desert Fury (1947)
BURT LANCASTER Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
BURT LANCASTER The Killers (1946)
CHARLES LAUGHTON Because of Him (1946)
CHARLES LAUGHTON The Bribe (1949)
CHARLES LAUGHTON Young Bess (1953)
CHARLTON HESTON Ben-Hur (1959)
CHARLTON HESTON El Cid (1961)
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Last Embrace (1979)
CLARK GABLE Command Decision (1948)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
DAVID NIVEN The King’s Thief (1955)
DAVID NIVEN The Other Love (1947)
DOROTHY MALONE Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
EDMOND O’BRIEN A Double Life (1947)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Brute Force (1947)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Julius Caesar (1953)
EDMOND O’BRIEN The Killers (1946)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Ivanhoe (1952)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Quo Vadis (1951)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The V.I.P.s (1963)
ELLEN BURSTYN Providence (1977)
ETHEL BARRYMORE The Red Danube (1949)
ETHEL BARRYMORE The Story of Three Loves (1953)
GALE SONDERGAARD EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (1949)
GEORGE SANDERS Ivanhoe (1952)
GEORGE SANDERS Moonfleet (1955)
GEORGE SANDERS Sundown (1941)
GEORGE SANDERS The King’s Thief (1955)
GEORGE SANDERS The Light Touch (1952)
GEORGE SANDERS The Seventh Sin (1957)
GRACE KELLY Green Fire (1954)
GREER GARSON Julius Caesar (1953)
GREER GARSON The Miniver Story (1950)
GREGORY PECK Spellbound (1945)
GREGORY PECK The Macomber Affair (1947)
HUGH GRIFFITH Ben-Hur (1959)
HUMPHREY BOGART Sahara (1943/I)
INGRID BERGMAN Spellbound (1945)
JAMES CAGNEY Blood on the Sun (1945)
JAMES CAGNEY Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
JANE WYMAN The Lost Weekend (1945)
JENNIFER JONES Madame Bovary (1949)
JESSICA TANDY A Woman’s Vengeance (1948)
JOAN FONTAINE Ivanhoe (1952)
JOAN FONTAINE Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
JOHN GIELGUD Julius Caesar (1953)
JOHN GIELGUD Providence (1977)
JOHN WAYNE The Green Berets (1968)
JOSE FERRER Crisis (1950)
JOSE FERRER Fedora (1978)
JUDY HOLLIDAY Adam’s Rib (1949)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Adam’s Rib (1949)
LAURENCE OLIVIER That Hamilton Woman (1941)
LAURENCE OLIVIER The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
MAGGIE SMITH The V.I.P.s (1963)
MARGARET RUTHERFORD The V.I.P.s (1963)
MARLON BRANDO Julius Caesar (1953)
MARY ASTOR Desert Fury (1947)
MARY STEENBURGEN Time After Time (1979)
PETER FINCH The Miniver Story (1950)
PETER USTINOV Quo Vadis (1951)
RAY MILLAND The Lost Weekend (1945)
REX HARRISON Ten Days in Paris (1940)
ROBERT DONAT Knight Without Armor (1937)
RONALD COLMAN A Double Life (1947)
SHELLEY WINTERS A Double Life (1947)
SIDNEY POITIER Something of Value (1957)
SOPHIA LOREN El Cid (1961)
SOPHIA LOREN Quo Vadis (1951)
SPENCER TRACY Adam’s Rib (1949)
SPENCER TRACY Plymouth Adventure (1952)
THOMAS MITCHELL DARK WATERS (1944)
VAN HEFLIN East Side, West Side (1949)
VAN HEFLIN Madame Bovary (1949)
VAN HEFLIN The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
VIVIEN LEIGH That Hamilton Woman (1941)
WENDY HILLER Something of Value (1957)
WILLIAM HOLDEN Fedora (1978)
Alex North had 49 Oscar winners in films he composed score for.
ANJELICA HUSTON Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
ANJELICA HUSTON The Dead (1987)
ANNA MAGNANI The Rose Tattoo (1955)
ANTHONY QUINN A Dream of Kings (1969)
ANTHONY QUINN Hot Spell (1958)
ANTHONY QUINN The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968/I)
ANTHONY QUINN Viva Zapata! (1952)
AUDREY HEPBURN The Children’s Hour (1961)
BEN JOHNSON Bite the Bullet (1975)
BEN JOHNSON Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
BURT LANCASTER The Rainmaker (1956)
BURT LANCASTER The Rose Tattoo (1955)
CHARLES LAUGHTON Spartacus (1960)
CHARLTON HESTON The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Stage Struck (1958)
CLARK GABLE The King and Four Queens (1956)
CLARK GABLE The Misfits (1961)
CLIFF ROBERTSON The Devil’s Brigade (1968)
EDMUND GWENN Les miserables (1952)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Cleopatra (1963)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
ERNEST BORGNINE Willard (1971)
EVA MARIE SAINT All Fall Down (1962)
FOREST WHITAKER Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
FREDRIC MARCH Death of a Salesman (1951)
GENE HACKMAN Bite the Bullet (1975)
GEORGE KENNEDY Spartacus (1960)
HENRY FONDA Stage Struck (1958)
HUGH GRIFFITH The Passover Plot (1976)
JACK NICHOLSON Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
JAMES COBURN Bite the Bullet (1975)
JAMES COBURN Hard Contract (1969)
JAMES STEWART Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
JEFF BRIDGES Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
JOANNE WOODWARD The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
JOANNE WOODWARD The Sound and the Fury (1959)
JODIE FOSTER Carny (1980)
JOHN GIELGUD The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968/I)
KARL MALDEN A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
KARL MALDEN All Fall Down (1962)
KARL MALDEN Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
KATHARINE HEPBURN The Rainmaker (1956)
KATY JURADO Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974)
KATY JURADO The Racers (1955)
KATY JURADO Under the Volcano (1984)
KIM HUNTER A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
LAURENCE OLIVIER Spartacus (1960)
LAURENCE OLIVIER The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968/I)
LEE MARVIN Pocket Money (1972)
MARLON BRANDO A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
MARLON BRANDO Desirée (1954)
MARLON BRANDO Viva Zapata! (1952)
MARTIN LANDAU Cleopatra (1963)
PAUL NEWMAN Pocket Money (1972)
PAUL NEWMAN The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
PAUL NEWMAN The Outrage (1964)
PETER USTINOV Spartacus (1960)
REX HARRISON Cleopatra (1963)
REX HARRISON The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
ROBIN WILLIAMS Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
SANDY DENNIS Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
SHELLEY WINTERS Journey Into Fear (1975)
SHIRLEY BOOTH Hot Spell (1958)
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Hot Spell (1958)
SHIRLEY MACLAINE The Children’s Hour (1961)
SIDNEY POITIER Go, Man, Go! (1954)
SUSAN HAYWARD I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
VIVIEN LEIGH A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
WILLIAM HOLDEN The Devil’s Brigade (1968)
YUL BRYNNER The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Herbert Stothart had 44 Oscar winners in films he did the scores for. He died in 1949 and worked only at MGM so there are numerous people in numerous films he did scores for.
BING CROSBY Going Hollywood (1933)
CHARLES COBURN Edison, the Man (1940)
CHARLES COBURN Idiot’s Delight (1939)
CHARLES COBURN Of Human Hearts (1938)
CHARLES COBURN The Green Years (1946)
CHARLES LAUGHTON Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
CHARLES LAUGHTON The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
CLARK GABLE Adventure (1945)
CLARK GABLE Chained (1934)
CLARK GABLE China Seas (1935)
CLARK GABLE Idiot’s Delight (1939)
CLARK GABLE Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
CLARK GABLE Night Flight (1933)
CLARK GABLE San Francisco (1936)
CLARK GABLE The White Sister (1933)
CLARK GABLE They Met in Bombay (1941)
CLARK GABLE Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
DAVID NIVEN Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
DAVID NIVEN Rose-Marie (1936)
DONALD CRISP HILLS OF HOME (1948)
DONALD CRISP MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
DONALD CRISP NATIONAL VELVET (1944)
DONALD CRISP SON OF LASSIE (1945)
DONALD CRISP THE VALLEY OF DECISION (1945)
DONALD CRISP VANESSA: HER LOVE STORY (1935)
DONALD CRISP WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS (1934)
DONNA REED The Human Comedy (1943)
DONNA REED The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
DONNA REED They Were Expendable (1945)
DONNA REED Thousands Cheer (1943)
EDMUND GWENN Hills of Home (1948)
EDMUND GWENN Pride and Prejudice (1940)
EDMUND GWENN Undercurrent (1946)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR National Velvet (1944)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
ETHEL BARRYMORE Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
FREDRIC MARCH Anna Karenina (1935)
FREDRIC MARCH Susan and God (1940)
FREDRIC MARCH The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
GEORGE SANDERS Bitter Sweet (1940)
GEORGE SANDERS The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
GIG YOUNG The Three Musketeers (1948)
GREER GARSON Adventure (1945)
GREER GARSON Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
GREER GARSON Desire Me (1947)
GREER GARSON Madame Curie (1943)
GREER GARSON Mrs. Miniver (1942)
GREER GARSON Pride and Prejudice (1940)
GREER GARSON Random Harvest (1942)
GREER GARSON The Valley of Decision (1945)
GREGORY PECK The Valley of Decision (1945)
GREGORY PECK The Yearling (1946)
HATTIE MCDANIEL CHINA SEAS (1935)
HELEN HAYES Night Flight (1933)
HELEN HAYES The Son-Daughter (1932)
HELEN HAYES The White Sister (1933)
HELEN HAYES Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
HELEN HAYES What Every Woman Knows (1934)
JAMES CAGNEY Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
JAMES STEWART After the Thin Man (1936)
JAMES STEWART Come Live with Me (1941)
JAMES STEWART Of Human Hearts (1938)
JAMES STEWART Rose-Marie (1936)
JAMES STEWART Small Town Girl (1936)
JAMES STEWART The Good Earth (1937)
JAMES STEWART The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
JAMES STEWART Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
JAMES STEWART Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
JANE WYMAN The Yearling (1946)
JANET GAYNOR Small Town Girl (1936)
JESSICA TANDY The Green Years (1946)
JESSICA TANDY The Valley of Decision (1945)
JOAN CRAWFORD Chained (1934)
JOAN CRAWFORD Susan and God (1940)
JOAN CRAWFORD The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
JOHN WAYNE They Were Expendable (1945)
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT IDIOT’S DELIGHT (1939)
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT MARIE ANTIONETTE (1938)
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT VIVA VILLA! (1934)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Dragon Seed (1944)
KATHARINE HEPBURN The Sea of Grass (1947)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Undercurrent (1946)
LAURENCE OLIVIER Pride and Prejudice (1940)
LIONEL BARRYMORE A Guy Named Joe (1943)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Camille (1936)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Christopher Bean (1933)
LIONEL BARRYMORE DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Dragon Seed (1944)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Night Flight (1933)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Tennessee Johnson (1942)
LIONEL BARRYMORE The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
LIONEL BARRYMORE The Valley of Decision (1945)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Treasure Island (1934)
LUISE RAINER The Good Earth (1937)
MARIE DRESSLER Christopher Bean (1933)
MARY ASTOR Thousands Cheer (1943)
MELVYN DOUGLAS The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
MELVYN DOUGLAS The Sea of Grass (1947)
MELVYN DOUGLAS Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
NORMA SHEARER Idiot’s Delight (1939)
NORMA SHEARER MARIE ANTIONETTE (1938)
NORMA SHEARER Riptide (1934)
NORMA SHEARER Romeo and Juliet (1936)
NORMA SHEARER The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
PAUL MUNI The Good Earth (1937)
RONALD COLMAN A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
RONALD COLMAN Kismet (1944)
RONALD COLMAN Random Harvest (1942)
SPENCER TRACY A Guy Named Joe (1943)
SPENCER TRACY Edison, the Man (1940)
SPENCER TRACY Men of Boys Town (1941)
SPENCER TRACY ‘Northwest Passage’ (Book I — Rogers’ Rangers) (1940)
SPENCER TRACY San Francisco (1936)
SPENCER TRACY The Sea of Grass (1947)
SPENCER TRACY Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
TERESA WRIGHT Mrs. Miniver (1942)
THOMAS MITCHELL ADVENTURE (1945)
THOMAS MITCHELL HIGH BARBAREE (1947)
VAN HEFLIN Tennessee Johnson (1942)
VAN HEFLIN The Three Musketeers (1948)
VIVIEN LEIGH Waterloo Bridge (1940)
WALLACE BEERY Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
WALLACE BEERY Big Jack (1949)
WALLACE BEERY China Seas (1935)
WALLACE BEERY Treasure Island (1934)
WALLACE BEERY Viva Villa! (1934)
WALTER BRENNAN Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
WALTER BRENNAN ‘Northwest Passage’ (Book I — Rogers’ Rangers) (1940)
WALTER BRENNAN Riptide (1934)
WALTER BRENNAN The Painted Veil (1934)
WALTER HUSTON Dragon Seed (1944)
WALTER HUSTON Of Human Hearts (1938)
WARNER BAXTER The Squaw Man (1931)
Good stuff Dan, thanks.
“Yet another composer I am not aware of….thinking I need to give up my movie buff card…lol. Overall I have seen just 14 of his movies. Finding a hard time finding a favorite. #1 Streetcar Named Desire is an all-time classic…but have never enjoyed that one. Spartacus is probably my favorite as I go through all of these movies. Did not like #5 The Misfits or #3 Va Woolfe at all. Dragonslayer and Bite The Bullet are fun movies but not favorites. #17 The Agony and the Ectasty was better than I thought….but not one I want to watch again….even with a good role by Chuck. An educational and entertaining video. Voted up and shared.” – From Steve’s Alex North You Tube Video…which is now added to this page.
Thanks for the vote, share and comment Bruce, much appreciated. Your tally of 14 equals mine, Flora has seen 22.
Spartacus is my favorite from this bunch too. Dragonslayer has one of the best dragons on film – Vermithrax Pejorative – a great name for a dragon don’t you think? Sir Ralph Richardson had a memorable role as a tired old wizard.
Added Steve’s Miklos Rozsa video to this page.
“Wow….just deleted my comment right when I was about to post the comment. So Cliff Notes version: Seen 17 of these 40 movies. Favorites inclued #26 Eye of the Needle, #21 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, #19 Time After Time…the Top 3….Ben Hur, The Asphalt Jungle and Double Indemnity. The coolest trivia I mentioned concerned Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. The only classic movie that is featured in that Steve Martin comedy is The Bribe. The Bribe and Dead Men both have music by Mr. Rozsa…..I at least thought that was interesting. Voted up and shared. My first comment was much better.”
Hi Bruce, sorry you lost your original comment, thanks for the Cliff Notes version, appreciate the vote and share. Flora’s tally 32, mine 29, yours 17.
Actually Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid contains clips from a bunch of classic movies including This Gun For Hire, Sorry Wrong Number, The Killers, Notorious and White Heat. Wikipedia has a complete list of film clips used. Rozsa composed music for some of them including The Bribe and Double Indemnity.