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Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) 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.
Herbert Stothart. Composer: The Wizard of Oz. 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
Rose-Marie is an operetta -style musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. The story is set in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and concerns Rose-Marie La Flemme, a French Canadian girl who loves miner Jim Kenyon.
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.
"I Wanna Be Loved by You" is a song written by Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar, for the 1928 musical Good Boy. It was first performed on September 5, 1928 by Helen Kane, who was the inspiration for the cartoon character Betty Boop.
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- December 1928
- September 5, 1928
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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.
Herbert Stothart was born of Scottish and Bavarian descent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 11, 1885, studying music in Europe and at The University of Wisconsin, where he also taught.
