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Arthur Lange is a Actor, Orchestrator and Additional Music American born on 16 april 1889

Arthur Lange

Arthur Lange
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 april 1889
Death 7 december 1956 (at 67 years)

Arthur Lange, né le 16 avril 1889 à Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie) et mort le 7 décembre 1956 à Washington (district de Columbia), est un compositeur, chef d'orchestre et arrangeur américain.

Biography

Au théâtre à Broadway (New York), Arthur Lange collabore à des productions représentées entre 1914 et 1928, principalement comme orchestrateur de comédies musicales et revues.

Puis il intègre Hollywood, composant des musiques (parfois additionnelles) pour plus de cent films américains, depuis Hollywood chante et danse de Charles Reisner (1929) jusqu'à Les Géants du cirque de James Edward Grant (1954) — outre des fonctions de directeur musical et d'arrangeur —.

Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons Jeunes filles modernes de Jack Conway (1929), Le Monde en marche de John Ford (1934), Casanova le petit de Sam Wood (1944) et Nuit de noces mouvementée de Richard Whorf (1951).

À noter qu'il tient un petit rôle de chef d'orchestre dans Le Metteur en scène d'Edward Sedgwick (1930).

Toujours comme chef d'orchestre, de 1947 jusqu'à sa mort en 1956 (à 67 ans), il dirige le Santa Monica Civic Symphony.

Dans les années 1940, Arthur Lange obtient cinq nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure musique de film (voir détails ci-dessous), notamment pour Casanova le petit précité, mais sans en gagner.

Best films

Cavalcade (1933)
(Original Music Composer)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
(Original Music Composer)
State Fair (1933)
(Orchestrator)
Belle of the Yukon (1944)
(Music Director)
Prelude to War (1942)
(Music)

Usually with

Hugo Friedhofer
Hugo Friedhofer
(11 films)
Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr
(7 films)
Carroll Clark
Carroll Clark
(6 films)
Thomas Little
Thomas Little
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Arthur Lange (65 films)

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Actor

Free and Easy, 1h32
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about television
Actors Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian, David Burton, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery
Roles lui-même (le chef d'orchestre)
Rating55% 2.7557052.7557052.7557052.7557052.755705
When small-town girl Elvira Plunkett (Anita Page) wins a contest that sends her to Hollywood for a screen test at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), she is accompanied by her overbearing mother (Trixie Friganza) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton), a gas-station attendant who goes along as Elvira's manager. Elmer is secretly in love with Elvira, but on the train they meet MGM contract actor Larry Mitchell (Robert Montgomery), who falls for her as well, and has the connections to make her a star.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929, 1h56
Directed by Charles Reisner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Anita Page, Marie Dressler
Roles Self - Orchestra Leader
Rating57% 2.851442.851442.851442.851442.85144
Avec l'arrivée du cinéma parlant et les prémices du Technicolor les grandes compagnies cinématographiques hollywoodiennes décidèrent de mettre en chantier ce que l'on n'appelait pas encore "superproduction". De fait il s'agissait de réunir dans un même film l'ensemble des acteurs composant leurs écuries respectives. Ainsi la Warner Bros. fit-elle réaliser son The Show of Shows tandis que de son côté La Métro sortait Hollywood chante et danse rassemblant ses comédiens parmi lesquels naturellement Stan Laurel et Oliver Hardy. Pas de scénario dans ce fil qui est composé d'une succession de numéros musicaux pour lesquels les acteurs furent invités à faire un peu le contraire de ce qu'ils faisaient d'habitude à l'écran. Laurel et Hardy s'en tirent plutôt bien en jouant les présentateurs magiciens.

Sound

Beachhead
Beachhead (1954)
, 1h30
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz, John Doucette
Roles Music
Rating57% 2.85082.85082.85082.85082.8508
In late October 1943, a battalion of US Marines have landed on Choiseul Island to create a diversion for the impending Allied invasion of Japanese held Bougainville Island.
Ring of Fear, 1h33
Directed by William A. Wellman, James Edward Grant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Circus films
Actors Clyde Beatty, Pat O'Brien, Sean McClory, John Bromfield, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Emmett Lynn
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating50% 2.517462.517462.517462.517462.51746
Dublin O'Malley, un ancien artiste de cirque aigri, revient sur les lieux de son ancien travail afin de se venger de son employeur et d'une femme. Les crimes et les accidents qu'il commet, déguisés en accident, inquiètent le personnel qui commence à croire le cirque hanté. Le directeur, Clyde Beatty, fait alors appel à Mickey Spillane pour résoudre l'énigme. Spillane ne tarde pas à découvrir le véritable auteur de ces méfaits...
Southwest Passage, 1h15
Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Rod Cameron, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, John Dehner, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Darryl Hickman
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57% 2.8548752.8548752.8548752.8548752.854875
This script must be run from the command line
The Mad Magician, 1h12
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Patrick O'Neal, Donald Randolph
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.2513253.2513253.2513253.2513253.251325
Don Gallico (Vincent Price) is a magician, master of disguise, and inventor of stage-magic effects in the late 1800s aspiring to become a star magician under the stage name Gallico the Great. Disguised as The Great Rinaldi, a headlining rival magician, Mr. Gallico performs a number of magic tricks successfully, building up to the reveal of his latest invention, the buzz-saw, an illusion that "severs" the head of the magician's assistant Karen Lee (Mary Murphy). Before Mr. Gallico can perform the buzz-saw illusion, the curtains come down to stop the performance. Businessman Ross Ormond (Donald Randolph) and his lawyer serve Mr. Gallico a cease and desist order against the performance of the buzz-saw trick much to the anger of Mr. Gallico. Ms. Lee's boyfriend, police detective Lt. Alan Bruce (Patrick O'Neal), is asked by her to intervene in the dispute between Mr. Gallico and Mr. Ormond. Mr. Gallico informs the detective that he signed a contract to Mr. Ormond's Illusions, Inc., a magician's trick provider, to invent new tricks, the issue is that Mr. Ormond owns all work created by Mr. Ormond, not just the ones produced for Illusions, Inc., Mr. Gallico's understanding.
99 River Street, 1h23
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Peggie Castle, Jay Adler
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating73% 3.6917153.6917153.6917153.6917153.691715
Ernie Driscoll is a former boxer who had to give up prize fighting after sustaining an injury in the ring and is now a New York taxi driver.
The Steel Lady, 1h24
Directed by Ewald André Dupont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Rod Cameron, Anthony Caruso, Tab Hunter, John Dehner, Charles Victor, Richard Erdman
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63% 3.193653.193653.193653.193653.19365
Four employees on an oil company crash-land in the desert and face a slow death, until they discover a German Panzer from World War II buried in the sand.
The Lady Says No, 1h20
Directed by Frank Ross
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Caulfield, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, Lenore Lonergan, Frances Bavier, Peggy Maley
Roles Music
Rating52% 2.6099752.6099752.6099752.6099752.609975
David Niven plays a globe-trotting author and photographer on assignment from LIFE magazine to do a photo story on best-selling author of the title book, "The Lady Says 'No'," Joan Caulfield. Rather than finding a dour spinster, as he expects, she is a young, attractive blonde, who finds her published theories against love and men set on their head.
Japanese War Bride, 1h31
Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell, Marie Windsor, James Bell, Philip Ahn
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.2806953.2806953.2806953.2806953.280695
The film tells the story of a wounded Korean War veteran, Jim Sterling (Don Taylor), who returns to his California home with his Japanese wife. The couple had met and fallen in love in a Japanese hospital where Tae Shimizu (Shirley Yamaguchi) was working as a nurse. Back in America, the two face racism and bigotry from their neighbors and family, particularly their sister-in-law, Fran (Marie Windsor).
Lost in Alaska
Directed by Albert Capellani, Jean Yarbrough
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Paul Capellani, Harry Baur, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell
Roles Music
Rating64% 3.23233.23233.23233.23233.2323
Deux pompiers, Tom Watson et George Bell, secourent un chercheur d'or sur le point de suicider. Toutefois, une méprise fait qu'ils se retrouvent recherchés par la police pour le meurtre de ce chercheur d'or. Ils partent alors en Alaska à sa poursuite et découvrent, une fois là-bas, qu'il compte beaucoup d'ennemis voulant le voir mort. Ils tâcheront alors de lui sauver la vie autant de fois que nécessaire afin de prouver qu'il n'est pas mort et qu'ils ne sont donc pas coupables…
Lost in Alaska, 1h16
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell, Bruce Cabot, Iron Eyes Cody
Roles Music
Rating61% 3.098983.098983.098983.098983.09898
The time is the 1890s, and the place is San Francisco. George Ball (Lou Costello) and Tom Watson (Bud Abbott) are firemen who rescue 'Nugget' Joe McDermott (Tom Ewell) from committing suicide by drowning. Joe wants to die because his girlfriend, Rosette (Mitzi Green) no longer loves him. The boys keep an eye on him and Joe is thankful for it after receiving a telegram the next morning from Rosette claiming that she still loves him. George and Tom take their gold reward to the bank when they learn the police mistakenly believe Joe was murdered for his gold that night by the two men who actually rescued. They catch up to Joe on his boat for the Yukon and try to get him down to the police station only to see the ship depart San Francisco with all three of them on it.
Cry Danger
Cry Danger (1951)
, 1h19
Directed by Robert Parrish, Dick Powell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey, Jean Porter
Roles Music
Rating72% 3.64183.64183.64183.64183.6418
Rocky Mulloy was sentenced to life in prison for a robbery and murder that he didn't commit. He's released five years later when a witness named Delong appears and provides an alibi. Rocky then sets out to find who framed him, hoping that by uncovering the actual criminals, he'll be able to free his friend Danny Morgan, also accused of the same crime.
Woman on the Run, 1h17
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, Ross Elliott, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Roles Music
Rating71% 3.594573.594573.594573.594573.59457
As the film opens, a man, Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), is walking his dog in the city at night. He witnesses a man in a car talking about a crime. The man then gets shot. But whoever shot that man then sees Frank and shoots at him. The shot misses, however, because it is mistakenly aimed at Frank's shadow. The killer then flees in the car.
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven, 1h16
Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, Michael Chekhov, Florence Bates, Lionel Stander
Roles Music
Rating59% 2.9521452.9521452.9521452.9521452.952145
Eddie Tayloe (Madison) is a reporter assigned to the Ft. Worth desk of a Dallas newspaper, and as the two neighboring cities are feuding, therefore has nothing to do. He dreams of becoming a New York playwright, and a small inheritance from his grandfather gives him his chance. Quitting his job, he begins the long drive. Picking up hitchhiker Perry Denklin (Lynn), also looking for fame and fortune in New York, he shares with her encounters with various eccentric characters. The big city does not work out for either of them, and when Eddie finds Perry working in a Coney Island girlie show, he pulls her out and they find happiness together, buying a ranch back in Texas.