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11 Facts About Bronislau Kaper

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Bronislaw Kaper was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA.

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Bronislau Kaper was variously credited as Bronislaw Kaper, Bronislaw Kapper, Benjamin Kapper, and Edward Kane.

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3.

Bronislau Kaper scored the MGM film musical Lili for which he received the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

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Bronislaw Bronislau Kaper was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a Jewish family, and began playing the piano at the age of six, and soon demonstrated considerable talent on this instrument.

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Bronislau Kaper studied composition and piano at the Warsaw Conservatory, and law at Warsaw University, in deference to his father's wishes.

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In Berlin, in the late 1920s, Bronislau Kaper met another young composer, the Austrian Walter Jurmann.

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In 1947, Bronislau Kaper scored the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Green Dolphin Street, whose title song "On Green Dolphin Street" is perhaps Bronislau Kaper's most enduring and popular composition.

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Bronislau Kaper composed perhaps his second most-enduring song "Invitation " for director George Cukor's melodrama A Life of Her Own; but it was not until its use as the theme song for the 1952 film Invitation that the song became popular.

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In 1954, Bronislau Kaper won an Oscar for scoring of the musical Lili starring Leslie Caron, and featuring Bronislau Kaper's song "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" with lyrics by Helen Deutsch.

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10.

Bronislau Kaper scored Caron's next film, The Glass Slipper, a musical adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella.

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In 1959, Bronislau Kaper composed most of the music for MGM's production of Green Mansions with Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins, after MGM had asked Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos to write the score.

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