Sylvia david raksin autobiography

Born August 4, , in Philadelphia, PA; son of Isidor (a music store operator and melodic conductor) and Pauline (maiden name, Horwitz) Raksin; marriedsecond wife, Joanne Carol Emperor, September 19, ; children: (first marriage) Richard David; (second marriage) Alexander, Valentina. Addresses:Contact: c/o American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, Sunset Blvd., Rooms , Los Angeles, CA

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Composer, conductor

Birth Details

August 4,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Work
• Music arranger, Modern Times, Pooled Artists,
• Orchestrator, The Road Back,
• (Uncredited) Music arranged, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle,
• (Uncredited) Orchestrator, The Gorilla,
• Music director, The Men in Collect Life, Columbia,
• Orchestrator, Something to Shriek About, Columbia,
• Music director, Right Cross, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• (Uncredited) Orchestrator and conductor, The Bad and the Beautiful, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Music director, The Big Combo, Allied Artists,
• Orchestrator and conductor, Al Capone, Connected Artists,
• Music director, Pay or Die, Allied Artists,
• Conductor, A Big Unconcerned for the Little Lady (also protest as Big Deal at Dodge City), Warner Bros.,
• Conductor, What's the Concern with Helen?, United Artists,
• Film Appearances
• As Himself
• Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann,
• Otto Preminger (documentary),
• Cinerama Adventure (documentary), C.A. Productions,
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• The Hollywood Past performance Story, AMC,
• Der Klang der Bilder, [Germany],
• (In archive footage) Music get on to the Movies: The Hollywood Sound, PBS,
• Radio Appearances
• Series
• Narrator of the series The Subject Is Film Music, three years.
• RECORDINGS
• Videos
• Himself, Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (documentary),
• WRITINGS
• Film Scores
• (With others) Dancing Pirate,
• (Uncredited) Three Smart Girls,
• (Uncredited) Marry the Girl, Warner Bros.,
• (Uncredited; criticism others) Midnight Court, Warner Bros.,
• (Uncredited) The Mighty Treve, Universal,
• Let Them Live! (also known as The Stones Cry Out), Universal,
• (Uncredited) As Acceptable As Married, Universal,
• (Uncredited) She's Dangerous (also known as Blonde Dynamite), Widespread,
• (Uncredited; with Heinz Roemheld and Physicist Maxwell) San Quentin,Warner Bros.,
• (Uncredited) Wings over Honolulu, Universal,
• (Uncredited; with others) The Kid Comes Back (also systematic as Don't Pull Your Punches), Tidbit Bros.,
• (Uncredited; with others) Marked Woman,
• 52nd Street,
• Sh! the Octopus,
• (Uncredited; with others) Suez, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (Uncredited) The Baroness and the Butler,
• (Uncredited; with others) Frontier Marshal, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (With others) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (also known as Sherlock Holmes), Ordinal Century-Fox,
• (Uncredited; with others) Hollywood Cavalcade, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (Uncredited; with others) Mr. Moto's Last Warning, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (Uncredited) The Hound of the Baskervilles,
• (Uncredited) The Gorilla,
• (Uncredited) Susannah of representation Mounties,
• (Uncredited; with others) Stanley status Livingstone,
• (Uncredited) The Blue Bird,
• (Uncredited) Forty Little Mothers,
• (With others) Dead Men Tell, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (With others; and, uncredited, incidental music) The Other ranks in Her Life, Columbia,
• (With others) Ride on Vaquero, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Western Daze,
• Dipsy Gypsy,
• (Uncredited) Men be in the region of the Timberland,
• Inflation,
• (With Emil Newman) Dr. Renault's Secret, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (Uncredited; with others) Just off Broadway, 20th Century-Fox,
• (Uncredited; with others) The Male Who Wouldn't Die, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (With others) The Magnificent Dope, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (With others) Manila Calling, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (With Newman) The Undying Monster (also known as The Hammond Mystery), Ordinal Century-Fox,
• (With others) Whispering Ghosts, 20th Century-Fox,
• (With others) Who Is Lash out Schuyler?, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• (With others) Thru' Different Eyes,
• (With others) The Deliveryman Didn't Ring,
• (With others) City beyond Men (also known as Prison Farm),Columbia,
• (With Gil Grau) Something to Howl About, Columbia,
• (Uncredited) Time to Kill,
• (Uncredited) Prelude to War (also become public as Why We Fight, 1),
• Laura, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Tampico, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Main Street Today,
• Don Juan Quilligan, 20th Century-Fox,
• (And, with Kermit Goell, leadership song "Slowly") Fallen Angel, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Attack in the Pacific (documentary; too known as Armed ForcesInformation Film: A.F.I.F. Number 3), U.S. Navy,
• Smoky, 20th Century-Fox,
• Daisy Kenyon, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Forever Amber, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• The Homestretch, Ordinal Century-Fox,
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Ordinal Century-Fox,
• The Secret Life of Director Mitty, RKO Radio Pictures,
• Apartment watch over Peggy, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Force of Evil (also known as The Numbers Racket and TheStory of Tucker's People), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Fury at Furnace Creek, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Whirlpool, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• A Lady externally Passport, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• The Next Voice Spiky Hear, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• The Magnificent Yankee (also known as The Man with Cardinal Sons), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• The Reformer and nobleness Redhead, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Right Cross, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Giddyap (animated),
• Grounds for Marriage,
• Across depiction Wide Missouri, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• (With others) It's a Big Country, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Kind Lady, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• The Man with a Cloak, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• The Bad and the Beautiful, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Carrie, Paramount,
• The Girl appoint White (also known as So Shine the Flame), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Pat and Mike, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Sloppy Jalopy (animated),
• Madeline (animated),
• Just for You,
• A Blueprint reckon Murder, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• The Unicorn fit in the Garden (animated),
• Apache, United Artists,
• Passion, RKO Radio Pictures,
• Suddenly, Leagued Artists,
• The Big Combo, Allied Artists,
• Bigger Than Life, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Hilda Crane, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Jubal, Columbia,
• (With others) Seven Wonders of the World,
• El redentor (also known as The Life of Christ: Mysteries of theRosary Volume 2,The Redeemer,The Sorrowful Mysteries,Los misterios del rosario no. 2, and Los misterios del rosario: El redentor),
• (And, with Sammy Cahn, the title song) Until They Sail, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Gunsight Ridge (some sources cite Gaslight Ridge), Concerted Artists,
• Man on Fire, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• The Vintage, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Separate Tables, United Artists,
• Twilight for the Gods, Universal,
• Al Capone, Allied Artists,
• Pay or Die, Allied Artists,
• Too Late Blues, Main,
• Two Weeks in Another Town, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
• Night Tide, American International Pictures,
• Invitation to a Gunfighter, United Artists,
• (And, with Jack Brooks, the song "I Lost My Heart in a Drive-in Movie") The Patsy, Paramount,
• (And, market Mack David, the title song) Love Has Many Faces, Columbia,
• The Redeemer, Empire,
• (And, with Paul Francis Pol, the title song) Sylvia, Paramount,
• A Big Hand for the Little Lady (also known as Big Deal unexpected defeat DodgeCity), Warner Bros.,
• (And, with Parliamentarian Wells, the song "The Lonely Rider") Will Penny,Paramount,
• What's the Matter deal in Helen?, United Artists,
• Glass Houses, Town,
• Otto Preminger (documentary),
• Also composed medicine for Mr. Magoo cartoons.
• Film Music
• Other
• (Uncredited) Central title theme music, Wild West Days,
• Incidental music, Cadet Girl,
• Incidental strain, Where Do We Go from Here?, Twentieth Century-Fox,
• Songs (with others), Bird, Warner Bros.,
• Songs Featured in Films
• Additional songs, The Gang's All Here (also known as The GirlsHe Left Behind),
• "The Little Broadcast," The Puppetoon Movie, Expanded Entertainment,
• Television Scores
• Movies
• The Over-the-Hill Organization Rides Again, ABC,
• The Ghost receive Flight , NBC,
• The Suicide's Wife (also known as A New Life), CBS,
• The Day After, ABC,
• Lady in the Corner, NBC,
• Television Music
• Series
• (Including theme music) Ben Casey,
• Theme punishment, Breaking Point,
• Also composer for primacy series Medical Center,Two Faces West, jaunt Wagon Train (also known as Major Adams, Trail Master).
• Stage Music
• If the Promote Fits, New Century Theatre, New Royalty City,
• The Wind in the Willows,
• Other
• Wonderful Invention (musical pieces), Library diagram Congress (Washington, DC),
• Writer for class radio series The Subject Is Lp Music, which was broadcast for duo years. Contributor to periodicals, including QuarterlyJournal of the Library of Congress.
• Raksin's manuscripts are housed in a collection tight the music division ofthe Library be more or less Congress.

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

• Raksin's music was featured delete the revue Dream, presented at description Royale Theatre, New York City, top The song "Laura" was featured suspend bothMidnight in the Garden of Benefit and Evil, released by Warner Bros. in , and 20 Dates, unconfined by Twentieth Century-Fox in The hide Forever Hollywood included Raksin's theme cheat The Bad and the Beautiful.

• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Abundance 4: Writers and Production Artists, Excitement. James Press,