Herbert Pope Stothart was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer.
12 Facts About Herbert Stothart
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Herbert Stothart was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
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Herbert Stothart was first hired by producer Arthur Hammerstein to be a musical director for touring companies of Broadway shows, and was writing music for the producer's nephew Oscar Hammerstein II.
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Herbert Stothart soon joined with many famous composers including Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin and Franz Lehar.
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In 1929, Herbert Stothart was signed to a large MGM contract.
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Herbert Stothart conducted and wrote songs and scores for the films The Cuban Love Song, The Good Earth, Romeo and Juliet, Mutiny on the Bounty, Mrs Miniver, The Green Years and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Herbert Stothart's output included the Marx Brothers' Night at the Opera, the Leo Tolstoy romantic drama Anna Karenina, two Charles Dickens dramas, and Mutiny on the Bounty, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination.
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Herbert Stothart won an Oscar for his musical score for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
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Herbert Stothart worked on another, commissioned by Roger Wagner Chorale, when he died two years later at the age of 63.
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Herbert Stothart received 12 Academy Award nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
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Herbert Stothart died of cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 78.
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Herbert Stothart is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.