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Leo F. Forbstein is a Actor and Sound American born on 16 october 1892 at St. Louis (USA)

Leo F. Forbstein

Leo F. Forbstein
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 october 1892 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 12 february 1948 (at 55 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Leo Frank Forbstein (October 16, 1892 – March 16, 1948) was an American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period.

Best films

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
(Music Director)
Sergeant York (1941)
(Music Director)
Casablanca (1943)
(Music Director)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
(Music Director)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
(Music Director)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
(Music Director)

Usually with

Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(144 films)
Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
(116 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(98 films)
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(96 films)
Anton Grot
Anton Grot
(51 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Leo F. Forbstein (297 films)

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Actor

Broadway Gondolier, 1h39
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Louise Fazenda, William Gargan, George Barbier
Roles Rehearsal Orchestra Leader
Rating63% 3.1911253.1911253.1911253.1911253.191125
A taxi driver (Dick Powell) secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer. One day he gives a radio station secretary a lift. She prattles on about a sponsor's new contest. The sponsor, a prominent cheese company, is looking for a singing gondolier to participate in their newest campaign.

Sound

Winter Meeting, 1h44
Directed by Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Bette Davis, Jim Davis, Janis Paige, John Hoyt, Florence Bates, Walter Baldwin
Roles Music Director
Rating61% 3.099623.099623.099623.099623.09962
Disenchanted poet Susan Grieve, escorted by her friend Stacy Grant, meets embittered World War II naval hero Lieutenant Slick Novak at a Manhattan restaurant where a dinner party is being held in his honor. He is more interested in Susan than his blind date Peggy Markham and offers to take her home at the end of the evening. The two become better acquainted over coffee in Susan's apartment, and she initially resists but then succumbs to his charms when he tries to kiss her.
Rope
Rope (1948)
, 1h20
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about education, L'action se déroule en une journée, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Douglas Dick
Roles Music Director
Rating78% 3.9498853.9498853.9498853.9498853.949885
Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Granger), strangle to death a former classmate, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise; they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".
Romance on the High Seas, 1h39
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Music Director
Rating69% 3.4963853.4963853.4963853.4963853.496385
Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) and her husband Michael (Don DeFore) suspect each other of cheating. For their wedding anniversary, Elvira books an ocean cruise to Rio de Janeiro but her husband claims that unexpected business will prevent him from going. Seeing an opportunity, Elvira pretends to take the trip alone, but in fact sends singer Georgia Garrett (Doris Day), a woman she'd met at the travel agency, in her place and under her name. By secretly staying behind, Elvira hopes to find out if Michael is indeed sneaking around behind her back. Michael, however, is suspicious over Elvira's supposed willingness to go on the trip alone, and so hires private detective Peter Virgil (Jack Carson) to see if she is sneaking around behind his back.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 2h6
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment, L'Or
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya
Roles Music Director
Rating81% 4.098834.098834.098834.098834.09883
In 1925 in the Mexican oil-town of Tampico, Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt), two Americans cheated out of promised wages and down on their luck, meet old prospector Howard (Walter Huston). When one of them wins a small jackpot in the lottery, they have the bankroll to finance a gold prospecting journey to the remote Sierra Madre mountains.
Silver River, 1h50
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Monte Blue
Roles Music Director
Rating64% 3.2440253.2440253.2440253.2440253.244025
During the American Civil War, soldier Mike McComb is cashiered from the army when he disobeys orders in order to prevent the Confederates from stealing the one million dollars he is guarding by burning the money. After being publicly humiliated by the townspeople, he and his friend 'Pistol' Porter confiscate gambling equipment and set out to Silver City, Nevada to open a saloon and gambling hall. On his way to St. Joseph, Mike meets Georgia Moore, a beautiful but serious woman that runs the Silver River mine with her husband Stanley and is currently hiring all the available wagons.
The Big Punch, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gordon MacRae, Lois Maxwell, Wayne Morris, Mary Stuart, Anthony Warde, Douglas Kennedy
Roles Music Director
Rating57% 2.866062.866062.866062.866062.86606
New York City boxer Johnny Grant (MacRae) has been ordered by his manager to "throw" his next match, but Johnny double-crosses him and knocks out his opponent instead. The manager decides to get even; he kills a police officer and frames the boxer for the murder.
Dark Passage, 1h46
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead, Bruce Bennett, Clifton Young, Douglas Kennedy
Roles Music Director
Rating74% 3.7480253.7480253.7480253.7480253.748025
Vincent Parry, a man convicted of killing his wife, escapes from San Quentin prison by stowing away in a supply truck. He evades police and hitches a ride with a passing motorist named Baker. Parry's odd clothes and a news report on the radio about an escaped convict make Baker suspicious. When questioned, Parry beats him unconscious. Irene Jansen, who had been painting nearby, picks up Parry and smuggles him past a police roadblock into San Francisco, offering him shelter in her apartment.
Humoresque
Humoresque (1947)
, 2h5
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler, Peggy Knudsen
Roles Music Director
Rating72% 3.646773.646773.646773.646773.64677
In New York City, a performance by noted violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield) is cancelled. At his apartment, Boray is at rock bottom emotionally. His manager Frederic Bauer (Richard Gaines) is angry with him for misunderstanding what a performing career would be like, and for thinking that music is no longer part of his life. To the more sympathetic Sid Jeffers (Oscar Levant), Boray says he has always wanted to do the right thing, but has always been "on the outside, looking in," and cannot "get back to that happy kid" he once was.
Possessed
Possessed (1947)
, 1h48
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, Moroni Olsen
Roles Music Director
Rating70% 3.547243.547243.547243.547243.54724
A woman (Joan Crawford) is found wandering Los Angeles, unable to say anything other than "David". Admitted to a hospital, she is coaxed into recounting her life.
The Two Mrs. Carrolls, 1h39
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Peinture, Théâtre, Serial killer films, Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Ann Carter
Roles Music Director
Rating67% 3.397473.397473.397473.397473.39747
While on vacation in Scotland, Sally Morton (Barbara Stanwyck) learns that her lover, the painter Geoffrey Carroll (Humphrey Bogart), is already married. Before returning home to his pre-teen daughter, Beatrice (Ann Carter), and his ill wife, Geoffrey buys a package (which the audience later learns contained poison) from chemist Horace Blagdon (Barry Bernard). The audience sees that Geoffrey is painting his wife's portrait, depicting her as an "angel of death".
Cry Wolf
Cry Wolf (1947)
, 1h23
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks, Richard Basehart, Jerome Cowan, John Ridgely
Roles Music Director
Rating65% 3.2943.2943.2943.2943.294
Sandra Marshall (Barbara Stanwyck), the widow of the owner of a remote mansion, arrives to take charge and claim the inheritance of her late husband. She receives a cold reception, especially from research scientist Mark Caldwell (Errol Flynn), who seems to be keeping her sister-in-law Julie (Geraldine Brooks) a virtual prisoner in the house.
Escape Me Never, 1h44
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Gig Young, Reginald Denny, Albert Bassermann
Roles Music Director
Rating59% 2.997382.997382.997382.997382.99738
The story takes place in Venice at the turn of the 20th century. A young composer by the name of Caryl Dubrok (Gig Young) has a love affair with wealthy English heiress, Fenella MacLean (Eleanor Parker), until her parents by mistake start believing that Caryl is living with young widow Gemma Smith (Ida Lupino) and her infant baby.
Stallion Road, 1h37
Directed by Raoul Walsh, James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Peggy Knudsen, Harry Davenport, Frank Puglia
Roles Music Director
Rating59% 2.9529452.9529452.9529452.9529452.952945
Based on the novel and screenplay by Stephen Longstreet, this film depicts the romance which flowers between a breezy young veterinarian (Ronald Reagan), and a lady who runs a breeding farm (Alexis Smith). The two horse-loving characters appear to be bound for an inevitable love story. And a friend of the vet (Zachary Scott), who also fancies the lady, quite obviously hasn't a chance.