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Mack David est un compositeur et parolier américain né le 5 juillet 1912 à New York et mort le 30 décembre 1993 à Rancho Mirage (Californie).
À la suite du décès en 1942 du compositeur attitré des studios Disney, Frank Churchill, puis du départ pour les autres studios de ses successeurs Leigh Harline et Ned Washington, David et Livingston sont engagés avec Al Hoffman pour écrire les chansons du long métrage d’animation Cendrillon. Un jour de 1948, David et Livingston demandent à leur amie, la chanteuse Ilene Woods, d’enregistrer quelques maquettes. Les enregistrements sont présentés sans en informer Ilene à Walt Disney qui demande deux jours plus tard à Ilene de devenir la voix originale de Cendrillon pour le film.
Le duo compose par la suite de nombreuses musiques pour des films et la télévision jusque dans les années 1960, dont le thème de Casper le gentil fantôme, ainsi que la comédie musicale Molly et la revue Bright Lights of 1944 pour Broadway.
David collabore également avec d'autres compositeurs comme Henry Mancini pour L'Américaine et l'Amour (Bachelor in Paradise, 1961), Elmer Bernstein pour La Rue chaude (Walk on the Wild Side, 1962) et Hawaï (1966), Ernest Gold pour Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1963) et Frank DeVol pour Chut... chut, chère Charlotte (Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964). La chanson qui lui a permis de gagner le plus d’argent est Sunflower publiée en 1948 et interprétée par Frank Sinatra. David engagea un procès contre Jerry Herman pour avoir utilisé la même mélodie pour le thème principal de sa comédie musicale Hello, Dolly! composée dix ans plus tard. L'affaire s’est résolue en dehors des tribunaux par le versement à David de 250 000 USD, malgré le fait que Herman clama son innocence, n’ayant, selon lui, jamais entendu auparavant la chanson de David.
(1950)
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(1963)
(Songs)
(1951)
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(1965)
(Songs)
(1962)
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Birth 5 july 1915
Death 30 december 1993 (at 78 years)
Death 30 december 1993 (at 78 years)
Mack David est un compositeur et parolier américain né le 5 juillet 1912 à New York et mort le 30 décembre 1993 à Rancho Mirage (Californie).
Biography
Né dans une famille juive, Mack David étudie pour devenir un avocat à l’université Cornell et dans la section droit juridique de la Law School de l'université de Saint John. Au début des années 1940, il change de carrière et rejoint le groupe d’artistes connu sous le nom Tin Pan Alley avec son ami, le compositeur Jerry Livingston. Leur succès leur permet de déménager à Hollywood.À la suite du décès en 1942 du compositeur attitré des studios Disney, Frank Churchill, puis du départ pour les autres studios de ses successeurs Leigh Harline et Ned Washington, David et Livingston sont engagés avec Al Hoffman pour écrire les chansons du long métrage d’animation Cendrillon. Un jour de 1948, David et Livingston demandent à leur amie, la chanteuse Ilene Woods, d’enregistrer quelques maquettes. Les enregistrements sont présentés sans en informer Ilene à Walt Disney qui demande deux jours plus tard à Ilene de devenir la voix originale de Cendrillon pour le film.
Le duo compose par la suite de nombreuses musiques pour des films et la télévision jusque dans les années 1960, dont le thème de Casper le gentil fantôme, ainsi que la comédie musicale Molly et la revue Bright Lights of 1944 pour Broadway.
David collabore également avec d'autres compositeurs comme Henry Mancini pour L'Américaine et l'Amour (Bachelor in Paradise, 1961), Elmer Bernstein pour La Rue chaude (Walk on the Wild Side, 1962) et Hawaï (1966), Ernest Gold pour Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1963) et Frank DeVol pour Chut... chut, chère Charlotte (Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964). La chanson qui lui a permis de gagner le plus d’argent est Sunflower publiée en 1948 et interprétée par Frank Sinatra. David engagea un procès contre Jerry Herman pour avoir utilisé la même mélodie pour le thème principal de sa comédie musicale Hello, Dolly! composée dix ans plus tard. L'affaire s’est résolue en dehors des tribunaux par le versement à David de 250 000 USD, malgré le fait que Herman clama son innocence, n’ayant, selon lui, jamais entendu auparavant la chanson de David.
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The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
, 1h44Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger, George Sanders, Robert Flemyng
Roles Lyricist
Rating62%
In the dead of the night a man walks down a deserted Berlin street. He enters a phone booth, but as he dials a number, he is shot dead.
Taras Bulba (1962)
, 2h2Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker, Perry Lopez, Brad Dexter, George Macready
Roles Lyricist
Rating62%
The film opens in the 16th century, when Russia and Eastern Europe were divided into small sections and principalities that fought each other or against one enemy: in this case, Turkey. It starts with a battle raging between the Turks and the Poles. The Poles are losing until the Cossacks arrive to save the day. However, it turns out that the Poles were merely holding back so that they could treacherously attack the Cossacks after they won the battle for them. As a result, the Poles become masters of Ukraine and the Cossacks are subjugated. Taras Bulba, one of the Cossack officers, returns home to raise his family but now it is under Polish dominion.
St. Louis Blues (1958)
, 1h45Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Le blues, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Ruby Dee, Juano Hernández, Billy Preston, Pearl Bailey
Roles Lyricist
Rating70%
Will Handy grandit à Memphis avec son père (pasteur) et sa tante Hagar. Son père entend, bien qu'il utilise ses dons musicaux uniquement à des fins religieuses à l'église, mais Will n'arrive pas à se séparer de la musique de rue de son époque. Après avoir écrit une première chanson, Gogo, une chanteuse, arrive à le convaincre de l'accompagner. Will est étranglé par la culture forte de son père et ses chansons de blues. Enfin la famille se réunit quand Gogo les fait venir à New York pour voir Will chanter une de ses chansons au milieu d'un orchestre symphonique.
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
, 1h39Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat
Actors Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers
Roles Lyricist
Rating69%
The quirky but down-to-earth residents of the small hamlet of Highwater, Vermont, are faced with the freshly dead body of Harry Worp (Philip Truex), which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town. The problem of who the person is, who was responsible for his sudden death, and what should be done with the body is "the trouble with Harry".
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
, 1h15Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Musical films, Films based on Alice in Wonderland, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna, Verna Felton
Roles Lyricist
Rating72%
On a golden spring day at the bank of a tranquil river, a young 12-year-old girl named Alice grows bored listening to her older 19-year-old sister read aloud from a history book of William I of England. When her sister chastises Alice's daydreaming, Alice tells her kitten Dinah that she can live in a nonsensical magical land called Wonderland. While daydreaming, Alice spots a waistcoat-wearing White Rabbit passing by, exclaiming that he is "late for an important date". Alice gives chase and follows him into a rabbit hole, and falls into a large furnished hole. Her dress catches her fall like a parachute and she floats gently down. She sees the White Rabbit disappear into a tiny door and tries to follow, but the door's talking knob advises her to alter her size using a mysterious bottle marked "Drink Me." The contents shrink her to a fraction of her normal size, but the door is locked and the key is out of reach. She then takes a bite of a cookie that says “Eat Me” and grows large enough to fill the entire room. She begins to weep large tears that flood the room. The doorknob then tells Alice to drink from the bottle again, which causes her to shrink once more. Alice falls into the bottle and passes through the door's keyhole and into Wonderland. She meets several strange characters including the Dodo and Tweedledee and Tweedledum who recount the tale of "The Walrus and the Carpenter".
Cinderella (1950)
, 1h14Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about the labor movement, Les fées, Musical films, Political films, Children's films, Films about marriage, Films about royalty
Actors Ilene Megan Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, Jimmy MacDonald, Luis van Rooten
Roles Lyricist
Rating72%
Cinderella is the beloved child of a widowed aristocrat. Anxious for his daughter to have a mother's love, he remarries to Lady Tremaine, with two daughters: Drizella and Anastasia. After her father dies unexpectedly, Lady Tremaine is revealed to be a cruel and selfish woman, and Cinderella is abused and mistreated by her stepfamily, who take over the estate and ultimately reduce her to being a scullery maid in her own home. Despite this, Cinderella grows into a kind and gentle young woman, befriending the animals in the barn and the mice and birds who live around the chateau.
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Cat Ballou (1965)
, 1h37Directed by Elliot Silverstein
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Musical films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat King Cole, Stubby Kaye
Roles Songs
Rating66%
Catherine Ballou (Jane Fonda), who wants to be a schoolteacher, is returning home by train to Wolf City, Wyoming, to the ranch of her father, Frankie Ballou (John Marley). On the way, she unwittingly helps accused cattle rustler Clay Boone (Michael Callan) elude his captor, Sheriff Maledon (Bruce Cabot), when Boone's Uncle Jed (Dwayne Hickman), a drunkard disguised as a preacher, distracts the lawman.
, 2h13Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Mary Astor
Roles Songs
Rating74%
In 1927, young belle Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) and her married lover, John Mayhew (Bruce Dern), plan to elope during a party at the Hollis family's antebellum mansion in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. However, after Charlotte's father intimidates him, telling him that John's wife had visited the day before and revealed the affair, John pretends he no longer loves Charlotte and tells her they must part.
, 2h34Directed by Stanley Kramer, Carey Loftin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Moe Howard
Roles Songs
Rating74%
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him - Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist, Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover, Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas, and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W".
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
, 1h54Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck, Joanna Moore
Roles Songs
Rating66%
Set during the Great Depression, it starts with Dove (Laurence Harvey) and Kitty (Jane Fonda) meeting on the road in Texas as each is traveling separately to New Orleans. They decide to travel together, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains. Dove is hoping to find his lost love Hallie (Capucine), and is not interested when Kitty comes on to him sexually.
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
, 1h49Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Paula Prentiss, Virginia Grey, Jim Hutton
Roles Songs
Rating62%
A.J. Niles is a provocative best-selling author who discovers that he has a large tax debt owed to the IRS, due to being ripped off by his accountant, Herman Wapinger. He goes undercover under the alias "Jack Adams" in a California suburban community called Paradise Village to research a new book about the wives and lives there. Niles is pursued by a flirtatious married woman named Dolores while falling in love with a woman, Rosemary, who rents her house to him. Wapinger is found, Niles' cash is returned to him, and he reveals his true identity on national television. The husbands in Paradise Village all file for divorce, believing their wives are all having affairs with Niles. In divorce court, Niles reveals that he is in love with Rosemary and asks her to marry him. Everyone lives happily ever after.
The Hanging Tree (1959)
, 1h47Directed by Delmer Daves, Karl Malden
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott, Virginia Gregg, Karl Swenson
Roles Songs
Rating70%
Joseph Frail—doctor (Gary Cooper), gambler, gunslinger—rides into small town of Skull Creek, Montana, with miners in a gold rush, looking to set up a doctor's office. He passes by the "hanging tree," an old oak with a thick branch over which has been slung a rope with a frayed end, presumably a former noose.
The Blob (1958)
, 1h26Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Giant monster films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Steve McQueen, Aneta Louise Corsaut, Olin Howland, Robert Fields
Roles Songs
Rating62%
During one long night in a small rural Pennsylvania town in July 1957, teenager Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend, Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut), are kissing on a lovers' lane when they see a meteor crash beyond the next hill. Steve decides to look for it. An old man (Olin Howland) living nearby finds it first. When he pokes the meteorite with a stick, it breaks open, and the small jelly-like blob inside attaches itself to his hand. In pain and unable to scrape or shake it loose, the old man runs onto the road, where he is nearly struck by Steve's car. Steve and Jane take him to Doctor Hallen (Stephen Chase).
Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)
, 1h30Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Genres Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gene Barry, Rhonda Fleming, Frank Wilcox, Agnes Moorehead, Jean Parker, Roscoe Ates
Roles Songs
Rating57%
After her husband is killed, a woman (Moorehead) takes her four unmarried daughters to Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush to help their father, not knowing he was already dead.
Jumping Jacks (1952)
, 1h36Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Transport films, Aviation films, Buddy films
Actors Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mona Freeman, Don DeFore, Robert Strauss, Richard Erdman
Roles Songs
Rating61%
Chick Allen (Dean Martin) is a paratrooper. He invites his former partner, Hap Smith (Jerry Lewis), to help out with a show that he and the other soldiers are preparing. However, the general is unhappy with the quality of past shows and is threatening to eliminate them unless the quality improves, which is why Chick has invited Hap to help.