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Biography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Herbert P. Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
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Stothart started out on Broadway, and later moved to Hollywood, where he became a prolific in-house composer for MGM. His work on The Wizard of Oz won him his only Academy Award. The music for the film's songs was composed by Harold Arlen- though Stothart shared credit with Arlen for the song "Optimistic Voices" ("You're out of the woods, / You're ...
Stothart received 12 Academy Award nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz. 1. 1939 Best Original Score Film – The Wizard of Oz Academy Award Nominations: 1. 1935 Best Scoring Film – Mutiny on the Bounty 2. 1937 Best Scoring Film – Maytime 3. 1938 Best Original Score Film – Marie Antoinette 4. 1938 Best Sc...
Herbert Stothart's movie scores include: 1. Devil-May-Care(1929) 2. Rasputin and the Empress(1932) 3. Queen Christina(1933) 4. The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1934) 5. What Every Woman Knows(1934) 6. Anna Karenina(1935) 7. China Seas(1935) 8. David Copperfield(1935 version) 9. Mutiny on the Bounty(1935) 10. Naughty Marietta(musical score only; the s...
Herbert Stothart. Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1880 – February 1, 1959) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
Jul 1, 2015 · Born: 11 September 1885, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Died: 1 February 1949. Herbert Stothart was born of Scottish and German ancestry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1885. He studied at Milwaukee Normal School with a curriculum tailored to prepare him for an academic career as a teacher of history.
Herbert Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was a songwriter, composer, arranger and conductor. During the 1920s he wrote for New York Broadway productions, as sound became added to movies he moved Hollywood. In 1940 he was awarded an Oscar for his soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz.
Academy Award-winning musician Herbert Stothart led quite a successful career contributing to the soundtracks of major motion pictures. Stothart worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Devil May Care" (1929), "Dynamite" (1929) and "Golden Dawn" (1930).
Mary Jane McKane is a musical comedy in three acts with book and lyrics by William Cary Duncan and Oscar Hammerstein, II and music by Herbert Stothart and Vincent Youmans. The show was produced by Arthur Hammerstein at the Imperial Theatre, and opened December 25, 1923.
