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Death. Herbert Stothart died of cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 63. He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. References
Oct 7, 2005 · With great sorrow, we announce the passing of our friend, Herbert Stothart Jr., only son of the pioneer film and stage composer (1885-1949), who died of complications from a stroke on October 6.
September 11, 1885 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Died. February 1, 1949 · Los Angeles, California, USA (spinal cancer) Mini Bio. Of Scottish and German ancestry, Herbert Stothart was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1885. At first, he was slated for a career as a teacher of history.
- September 11, 1885
- February 1, 1949
After quitting law school to pursue theater, Hammerstein began his first professional collaboration, with Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. He began as an apprentice and went on to form a 20-year collaboration with Harbach.
Herbert Stothart (11 September 1885 - 1 February 1949) was the veteran composer for the MGM studio who wrote and arranged music for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Stothart started out on Broadway, and later moved to Hollywood, where he became a prolific in-house composer for MGM.
Herbert Stothart spent his entire Hollywood career at MGM. In 1947, he suffered a heart attack while visiting Scotland, and, afterwards, composed an orchestral piece ('Heart Attack: A Symphonic Poem'), based on his tribulations. He worked on another ('The Voice of Liberation'), when he died two years later at the age of 63 from cancer of the spine.
Oct 19, 2005 · Herbert Stothart Jr., an art history professor at Santa Monica College and the University of California at Los Angeles, died Thursday, October 6th, from complications of a stroke. He was
