John Waldo Green was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist.
23 Facts About Johnny Green
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Johnny Green was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger.
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Johnny Green won four Academy Awards for his film scores and a fifth for producing a short musical film, and he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
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Johnny Green was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Johnny Green wrote a number of songs which have become jazz standards, including "Out of Nowhere" and "Body and Soul".
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Johnny Green wrote the scores for various films and TV programs.
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Johnny Green composed the theme for Max Fleischer's Betty Boop cartoons in 1932, with Edward Heyman as lyricist.
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Nathaniel Shilkret and Paul Whiteman commissioned Johnny Green to write larger works for orchestra, such as "Night Club ", introduced by Whiteman on January 25,1933, at Carnegie Hall.
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Johnny Green was at piano "one," and Roy Bargy and Ramona played the other two pianos.
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Johnny Green spent much of 1933 in London, where he contributed songs to both Mr Whittington, a musical comedy for Jack Buchanan at the London Hippodrome, and Big Business, the first musical comedy ever written for BBC Radio.
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In 1935, Johnny Green starred on CBS's Socony Sketchbook, sponsored by Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.
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Johnny Green lured the young California singer Virginia Verrill to headline with him on the Friday evening broadcasts.
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Johnny Green particularly made an impression at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where in the 1940s, along with orchestrator Conrad Salinger, he was one of the musicians most responsible for changing the overall sound of the MGM Symphony Orchestra, partially through the re-seating of some of the players.
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Johnny Green was the Music Director at MGM from 1949 to 1959.
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Johnny Green compiled and arranged the MGM Jubilee Overture in 1954, a tour de force.
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Johnny Green produced numerous film scores, such as the one for Raintree County in 1957.
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The short subject featured Johnny Green conducting the MGM Orchestra on-screen in the music from the opera of the same name by Otto Nicolai.
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Johnny Green was hired to create the televised Guinness advertisement known as the "World" ad campaign.
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Johnny Green recruited a team which included set designer Grant Major and Oscar-nominated director of photography Wally Pfisher to complete the job.
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In 1965, Johnny Green conducted the music for that year's new adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's only musical for television, Cinderella, starring Lesley Ann Warren, Walter Pidgeon, Ginger Rogers, and Stuart Damon.
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Johnny Green wrote much of the incidental music heard in the film, basing it on Lionel Bart's songs for the original show.
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Johnny Green was a chairman of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, leading the orchestra through 17 of the Academy Award telecasts, and a producer of television specials.
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Johnny Green who grew up in a secular Jewish family converted to Christianity inspired by his third wife Bunny Waters.