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Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer (May 3, 1901 – May 17, 1981) was an American composer and cellist best known for his motion picture scores.
The film also won Oscars for star Fredric March and co-star Russell (who was also given an honorary award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans"), film editor Daniel Mandell, composer Hugo Friedhofer and screenwriter Robert E. Sherwood, and was instrumental in garnering the Irving Thalberg Award for Samuel Goldwyn, who also took ...
May 2, 2012 · But of those who inspired him — Max Steiner ( Casablanca, Gone with the Wind ), Hugo Friedhofer ( An Affair to Remember ), Erich Wolfgang Korngold ( The Adventures of Robin Hood) — there was...
May 20, 1981 · Hugo Friedhofer, an Oscar-winning orchestrator and composer who was among the first to integrate music and movies, died Sunday at St. Vincent's Hospital. He had been receiving treatment for...
May 6, 2021 · Hugo Friedhofer’s widely acclaimed score to Best Years of Our Lives successfully evokes an American sound that simultaneously universalizes and authenticates this story of post-war readjustment.
- Aaron J. Johnson
- 2021
FRIEDHOFER, Hugo. Composer and Arranger. Nationality: American. Born: Hugo Wilhelm (or William) Friedhofer in San Francisco, California, 3 May 1902. Education: Studied with Domenica Brescia, Respighi, Nadia Boulanger, Schoenberg, and others into the 1940s.
Jan 10, 2022 · Many were Jewish refugees who had fled the Nazis. Curtiz personally cast all of them. All told, 34 different nationalities appeared in the film.
