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Robert Russell Bennett is a Sound and Additional Music American born on 15 june 1894 at Kansas City (USA)

Robert Russell Bennett

Robert Russell Bennett
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Nationality USA
Birth 15 june 1894 at Kansas City (USA)
Death 18 august 1981 (at 87 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981)
was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards recognizing his orchestrations for Broadway shows. Early in his career he was often billed as Russell Bennett.

Best films

Rebecca (1940)
(Orchestrator)
Oklahoma! (1955)
(Music Arranger)
Swing Time (1936)
(Music)

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Filmography of Robert Russell Bennett (27 films)

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Sound

South Pacific, 2h51
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres War, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Juanita Hall, France Nuyen, Ray Walston
Roles Orchestrator
Rating67% 3.3961353.3961353.3961353.3961353.396135
En 1943, sur une île du Pacifique, Nellie, une infirmière américaine, s'éprend d'un planteur français, Emile de Becque, qui a quitté son pays parce qu'il était accusé de meurtre. Mais elle accepte mal le fait qu'il ait déjà deux enfants, nés de son union avec une Polynésienne. Pendant ce temps, le lieutenant Cable tombe amoureux de la jeune Liat, fille d'une commerçante, mais refuse de l'épouser en raison de sa couleur de peau. Une mission à haut risque viendra bouleverser le destin de ces deux couples.
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! (1955)
, 2h25
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger
Roles Music Arranger
Rating69% 3.496993.496993.496993.496993.49699
À la fin du XIX siècle, le territoire indien de l'Oklahoma est ouvert à la colonisation. C'est dans ce contexte que se déroule le récit qui concerne les problèmes de cœur que rencontrent les cow-boys Curly et Will avec deux demoiselles, Laurey et Annie.
My Son John, 2h2
Directed by Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger, Robert Walker, Minor Watson, Frank McHugh
Roles Orchestrator
Rating55% 2.7550252.7550252.7550252.7550252.755025
In uniform, John and Ben Jefferson, strapping blonds who played high school football, attend Sunday Mass with their parents before leaving for army service in Korea. Their older brother, John sends regrets that he can not join their farewell dinner because of his work for the federal government in Washington.
Brigham Young, 1h53
Directed by Otto Brower, Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62% 3.140953.140953.140953.140953.14095
The story begins in frontier-town Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844. It follows the main body of the Church as they are forced to leave Illinois, choosing to settle temporarily in Nebraska and then to travel by wagon train to the Great Basin. Much of the story's plot revolves around two of the group, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb.
Rebecca
Rebecca (1940)
, 2h10
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement
Actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper
Roles Orchestrator
Rating80% 4.0486954.0486954.0486954.0486954.048695
A naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine), whose name is never mentioned, is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.
Stage to Chino, 1h
Directed by Edward Killy
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George O'Brien, Virginia Vale, Hobart Cavanaugh, Roy Barcroft, William Haade, Carl Stockdale
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60% 3.0452353.0452353.0452353.0452353.045235
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 1h33
Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields, Victor Varconi
Rating68% 3.447873.447873.447873.447873.44787
The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers) who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.
Pacific Liner, 1h16
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie, Barry Fitzgerald, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), Alan Hale
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57% 2.8539752.8539752.8539752.8539752.853975
In 1932, aboard the passenger ship, the S.S. Arcturus, engineer "Crusher" McKay (Victor McLaglen) runs a "tight ship", both beloved and feared by his men. The ship's doctor, "Doc" Tony Craig (Victor McLaglen), has signed on in Shanghai to be on the San Francisco bound trip. He wants to be near his former sweetheart, nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie).
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1h25
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, George Zucco, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson
Rating72% 3.6450653.6450653.6450653.6450653.645065
The film begins with Moriarty and Holmes verbally sparring on the steps outside the Old Bailey where Moriarty has just been acquitted on a charge of murder due to lack of evidence. Holmes remarks, "You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I admire it so much I'd like to present it, pickled in alcohol, to the London Medical Society". "It would make an impressive exhibit", replies Moriarty.
5th Ave Girl, 1h23
Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison, Tim Holt, Kathryn Adams Doty
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67% 3.3975353.3975353.3975353.3975353.397535
Wealthy industrialist Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) has problems both at work and at home. His employees at Amalgamated Pump are making demands that may drive the business he has built up from nothing into bankruptcy, and his son Tim (Tim Holt) has lost a major customer through neglect (he prefers playing polo). On his birthday, Borden's secretary gives him a loud tie as a gift, but when he goes home to his Fifth Avenue mansion, he finds nobody there but the servants. His unfaithful wife Martha (Verree Teasdale), his daughter Katherine (Kathryn Adams), and Tim have all forgotten or do not care.
Twelve Crowded Hours, 1h4
Directed by Lew Landers
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Donald MacBride, Cy Kendall, John Arledge
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating56% 2.8083452.8083452.8083452.8083452.808345
When the brother of his girlfriend Paula Sanders is accused of murder, reporter Nick Green tries to clear him.
The Spellbinder, 1h9
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles, Allan Lane, Leonid Kinskey, Morgan Conway
Roles Orchestrator
Rating61% 3.092393.092393.092393.092393.09239
This script must be run from the command line
Intermezzo: A Love Story, 1h10
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway, Ann Todd
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.298333.298333.298333.298333.29833
Holger Brandt, a famous virtuoso violinist, meets Anita Hoffman, his daughter's piano instructor, during a trip home. Impressed by Anita's talent, he invites her to accompany him on his next tour. They begin touring together and a passionate relationship ensues. Holger's wife Margit asks him for a divorce.