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W. Franke Harling is a Sound and Additional Music British born on 18 january 1887 at London (United-kingdom)
William Franke Harling, né le 18 janvier 1887 à Londres (Angleterre), mort le 22 novembre 1958 à Sierra Madre (Californie), est un compositeur, organiste, pianiste et chef d'orchestre américain d'origine anglaise.
Connu comme W. Franke Harling ou Franke Harling, il s'illustre en particulier dans le domaine de la musique de film.
Il commence sa carrière de compositeur dans le domaine de la musique classique. On lui doit notamment trois poèmes élégiaques pour violoncelle et orchestre, des poèmes symphoniques (ex. : Monte Cassino - In Memoriam 1944) et des œuvres chorales (ex. : The Miracle of Time en 1916, ballade pour ténor, chœurs et orchestre). Pour le théâtre, il écrit des musiques de scène, dont celle pour Pan and the Young Shepherd, pièce créée à Broadway (New York) en 1918. Enfin, il est l'auteur de quelques opéras, dont deux influencés par le jazz, A Light from St. Agnes (créé à Chicago en 1925, joué au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées à Paris en 1929) et Deep River (représenté à Broadway en 1926).
À partir de 1928, W. Franke Harling est sollicité par le cinéma hollywoodien et compose ainsi des partitions originales pour une centaine de films américains, jusqu'en 1954. En outre, il contribue à des songs, dont plusieurs seront régulièrement utilisés à l'écran, tels Sing You Sinners (ex. : dans Une femme en enfer en 1955) ou Beyond the Blue Horizon (ex. : dans Le Parrain 3 en 1990).
Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons Monte-Carlo d'Ernst Lubitsch (1930), Shanghaï Express de Josef von Sternberg (1932), Ceux de la zone de Frank Borzage (1933), Âmes à la mer d'Henry Hathaway (1937), ou encore La Chanson du passé de George Stevens (1941).
Pour avoir collaboré à l'adaptation de la musique utilisée dans La Chevauchée fantastique de John Ford (1939), il gagne en 1940 un Oscar de la meilleure musique de film (outre deux autres nominations).
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Birth name William Franke Harling
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 january 1887 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 22 november 1958 (at 71 years) at Sierra Madre (USA)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 january 1887 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 22 november 1958 (at 71 years) at Sierra Madre (USA)
Connu comme W. Franke Harling ou Franke Harling, il s'illustre en particulier dans le domaine de la musique de film.
Biography
En 1888 (il a alors un an), ses parents et lui s'installent définitivement aux États-Unis. Après sa scolarité à Boston et New York, il revient à Londres en 1903, où il intègre la London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art et y apprend le piano, le violon, le violoncelle, l'orgue et la composition. De 1906 à 1908, il se perfectionne en piano et composition auprès de Théo Ysaÿe, au Conservatoire de Bruxelles (de plus, il exerce comme organiste et chef de chœur dans la capitale belge).Il commence sa carrière de compositeur dans le domaine de la musique classique. On lui doit notamment trois poèmes élégiaques pour violoncelle et orchestre, des poèmes symphoniques (ex. : Monte Cassino - In Memoriam 1944) et des œuvres chorales (ex. : The Miracle of Time en 1916, ballade pour ténor, chœurs et orchestre). Pour le théâtre, il écrit des musiques de scène, dont celle pour Pan and the Young Shepherd, pièce créée à Broadway (New York) en 1918. Enfin, il est l'auteur de quelques opéras, dont deux influencés par le jazz, A Light from St. Agnes (créé à Chicago en 1925, joué au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées à Paris en 1929) et Deep River (représenté à Broadway en 1926).
À partir de 1928, W. Franke Harling est sollicité par le cinéma hollywoodien et compose ainsi des partitions originales pour une centaine de films américains, jusqu'en 1954. En outre, il contribue à des songs, dont plusieurs seront régulièrement utilisés à l'écran, tels Sing You Sinners (ex. : dans Une femme en enfer en 1955) ou Beyond the Blue Horizon (ex. : dans Le Parrain 3 en 1990).
Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons Monte-Carlo d'Ernst Lubitsch (1930), Shanghaï Express de Josef von Sternberg (1932), Ceux de la zone de Frank Borzage (1933), Âmes à la mer d'Henry Hathaway (1937), ou encore La Chanson du passé de George Stevens (1941).
Pour avoir collaboré à l'adaptation de la musique utilisée dans La Chevauchée fantastique de John Ford (1939), il gagne en 1940 un Oscar de la meilleure musique de film (outre deux autres nominations).
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The Long Gray Line (1955)
, 2h18Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Actors Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Donald Crisp, Ward Bond, Betsy Palmer
Rating71%
The movie is framed as the reminiscences of Master Sergeant Martin Maher (Tyrone Power), who first came to West Point in 1898 as a civilian employee. Arriving from County Tipperary, Ireland, Marty begins as a waiter. When he realizes that enlisted men receive better treatment than do hired laborers, he immediately signs up. Capt. Koehler (Ward Bond), impressed with his boxing skills, wants him as an assistant in athletics instruction.
, 1h19Directed by Joe May
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romance
Actors Simone Simon, James Ellison, Minna Gombell, Chick Chandler, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Gladys Blake
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating56%
A young defense worker Kathie Aumont (Simone Simon) comes to Washington DC only to find that her friend Sally, with whom she was going to live, is newly married. This leaves Kathie with nowhere to sleep. Luckily she falls in love with a newly inducted Marine, who gives her the key to his apartment. Unluckily he's also given keys to all his friends.
Three Russian Girls (1943)
, 1h21Directed by Fedor Ozep, Henry S. Kesler
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Anna Sten, Kent Smith, Kane Richmond, Alexander Granach, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66%
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
, 1h32Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon, Stanley Ridges, Arline Judge, Marietta Canty
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
Elizabeth Madden (Marlene Dietrich) longs for motherhood but has no husband. Her desire appears to be fulfilled when she finds an abandoned baby, but she doesn't have a clue on how to raise it. She finds divorced pediatrician, Dr. Corey McBain (Fred MacMurray), to help her with the child.
Penny Serenade (1941)
, 1h59Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Leonard Willey
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Applejack Carney pulls from a shelf an album of records entitled "The Story of a Happy Marriage" and places the song "You Were Meant for Me" on the Victrola. Julie Adams, Applejack's old friend and owner of the album, asks him to turn off the tune and announces that she is leaving her husband Roger. After glancing at the nursery, Julie restarts the song and remembers meeting Roger years earlier: The same ballad is playing over the loudspeakers at the San Francisco music store where Julie works. When the record begins to skip, passerby Roger Adams enters the store and meets Julie. The two begin to date, and while at the beach one day, Julie breaks open a fortune cookie, which reads "you will get your wish --a baby." Roger, a confirmed bachelor who has no patience with children, hides his fortune, which predicts a "wedding soon," and replaces it with "you will always be a bachelor." Roger, a reporter, changes his mind, however, when he bursts into a New Year's Eve party with the news that his paper is assigning him to a post in Japan and asks Julie to marry him that evening. Knowing that they will not see each other for three months until Roger can earn enough money for Julie's passage to Japan, the newlyweds kiss goodbye in Roger's train compartment. As they embrace, the train pulls out, and as a result, Julie stays in Roger's compartment until the train stops the next morning. Three months later, when Julie is reunited with Roger in Japan, she reports that she is pregnant. Julie becomes concerned for the future of her family when she learns that Roger has lavishly furnished their house by spending advances on his salary. Later, when Roger inherits a small sum of money and announces that he has quit his job so that they can travel the world, Julie, disturbed by her husband's financial irresponsibility, goes upstairs to pack. At that moment, a violent earthquake strikes, demolishing the house and causing Julie to lose the baby. Roger and Julie return to San Francisco, and while hospitalized there, Julie learns that she will never be able to have children. Roger tries to console her by telling her that he wants to settle down and buy a small town paper, but Julie responds that a baby is all she ever wanted. Soon after, Roger buys the Rosalia Courier Press , and the couple moves into the apartment above the newspaper office, which is equipped with a small nursery. Roger hires their friend Applejack to manage the paper, but despite their hard work, circulation remains low. Two years later, while Roger is working late one night, Applejack encourages Julie to adopt a child, and when Roger returns home, Applejack prods him into agreeing to consider adoption. When Julie writes to the orphanage to request a two-year-old boy with curly hair and blue eyes, Mrs. Oliver, the administrator, interviews the prospective parents and later pays a surprise visit to their home. At first disapproving because the Adams house is a cluttered mess, Mrs. Oliver is charmed by the little nursery and tells Julie that a five-week-old baby girl is available for adoption. When Julie and Roger protest that they wanted a two-year-old boy, the age their own baby would have been, Mrs. Oliver assures them that this is the child for them. Roger and Julie consent to see the infant, and when Julie falls in love with the baby, Mrs. Oliver allows them to take her home for a one-year probation period. One year later, as the time for the adoption hearing approaches, Mrs. Oliver visits the family to update her records. When Julie admits that the paper has gone out of business and that Roger has no income, Mrs. Oliver solemnly caps her pen. Steeling themselves to return their baby, whom they have named Trina, to the orphanage, Roger bundles up the infant and proceeds to the judge's chambers. When the judge denies the adoption, Roger, near tears, begs to keep the little girl, pleading that she is like his own child. Moved by Roger's plea, the judge relents and grants the adoption, prompting Julie cheerily to proclaim that nothing can take Trina from them now. Years pass, and Trina's proud parents watch their daughter sing the echo to "Silent Night" in her school's Christmas play. When Trina slips on a platform while onstage, she worries that she will not be allowed to play an angel in the play the following year. The next Christmas, Mrs. Oliver receives a tragic letter from Julie, notifying her of Trina's death after a sudden, brief illness. Julie confides that Roger is punishing himself for Trina's fate and behaves like a stranger to her. At the Adams home, as Julie and Roger sit wordlessly in their living room, they hear a knock at the door. Julie answers it and finds a mother, frantic because her car is stalled and her son is due to perform in the school play. Julie and Roger offer to drive the mother and child to the play, and when the car arrives to the sound of children singing "Silent Night," Roger gets out and proclaims that he never again wants to see anybody or anything that reminds him of Trina. Julie's thoughts return to the present, and she takes the record off the turntable just as Applejack climbs the stairs to deliver her train ticket. At that moment, Roger returns, despondent, but as he picks up Julie's suitcase to drive her to the train station, the phone rings. It is Mrs. Oliver, calling to offer the couple a two-year-old boy, who is the image of the youngster they requested years earlier. Their faith and hope restored, Julie and Roger begin planning a new life with their son.
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
, 1h21Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray, Richard Denning, Johnny Downs
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65%
Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) is a wealthy, easy-going family patriarch who falls on hard times after the death of his wife, Molly and a stock market crash in 1907, that wipes out his wealth. Recently arrived governess Emilie (Ingrid Bergman) works to keep the family together. But with the loss of Adam's fortune the boys are sent off to boarding school, their schooling paid for by wealthy, aged Cousin Phillipa. Emilie must return to France until Adam can afford to repurchase the family estate and recall her to look after it. Reversing his fortunes takes Adam several years. By then, the three older boys are fighting in World War I. Then, just as the family is getting back to its former way of life.
Riders of Death Valley (1941)
Directed by Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Buck Jones, Charles Bickford, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
Le samedi matinee foule a deux étoiles de cow-boy pour le prix d'un dans cette série richement budgétisé ouest mettant en vedette l'ancien cow-boy chantant Dick Foran et Buck Jones. Ce dernier a contribué à l'humour pince-sans la procédure, ce qui rend Jones peut-être le soulagement de la comédie B-ouest le mieux payé dans l'histoire. Les deux héros défendent les mineurs de borax Death Valley d'une bande hors la loi dirigée par Wolf Reade. Un casting extraordinairement forte - pour une série, au moins - soutenu les étoiles, dirigé par Charles Bickford comme Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., et l'étoile Monte écran bleu silencieux. Jeanne Kelly principale dame plus tard a changé son nom à Jean Brooks et a joué dans le thriller de RKO atmosphérique La septième victime (1943).
Men with Wings (1938)
, 1h45Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Andy Devine, Lynne Overman, Porter Hall, Walter Abel
Roles Music
Rating62%
In 1903, the Wright Brothers set the scene for aviation's advances and influence barnstormer, Pat Falconer (Fred MacMurray) and his friend, engineer Scott Barnes (Ray Milland). Falconer marries childhood sweetheart Peggy Ransom (Louise Campbell) although Barnes also loves her, but is unwilling to jeopardize his relationship with his friend.
Souls at Sea (1937)
, 1h32Directed by Henry Hathaway, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67%
The story is based on two distinct early 19th-century themes, including the attempts by abolitionists (Cooper and Raft) to end the slave trade. Although the U.S. Constitution ended the importation of slaves in 1808, slaves were still being brought into the country under foreign flags. The abolition of slavery by Great Britain helped reduce legal trade in slaves by putting the British navy into action against slave traders, but even Britain had its supporters of the trade (here represented by Wilcoxon, as a British naval officer acting for the slave interests). The collision between Cooper and Wilcoxon is complicated by Wilcoxon's sister (Dee) falling in love with Cooper.
Black Legion (1937)
, 1h23Directed by Michael Curtiz, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan, Helen Flint, Joe Sawyer
Roles Music
Rating68%
When passed over for promotion at work in favor of a foreign-born friend, Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), a midwestern factory worker, joins the anti-immigrant Black Legion, a secret white vigilante organization portrayed as related to the Ku Klux Klan. Dressed in black robes and hoods, Taylor and the Legion mount a torchlight raid and burn down the friend's chicken farm, driving him out of town, so that Taylor can gain the job he believed was his. Soon, however, Taylor's recruiting activities with the Legion get in the way of his work, and he is demoted in favor of neighbor Mike Grogan (Clifford Soubier). The Legion takes action again, attacking Grogan.
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
, 1h28Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Douglass Dumbrille, Ida Lupino, Virginia Weidler
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating68%
Gogo is a young boy of English extraction growing up in Paris. He is friendly with the neighbor girl, Mimsey. After his mother dies, Gogo is taken to England by his uncle who gives him an English name based on his mother's maiden name, transforming Gogo into Peter Ibbetson.
So Red the Rose (1935)
, 1h30Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Janet Beecher, Elizabeth Patterson, Robert Cummings
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
En 1861, à la plantation Portobello dans le Mississippi, la famille Bedford va se trouver mêlée aux tourments de la guerre de Sécession...
One More River (1934)
, 1h28Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Diana Wynyard, Colin Clive, Frank Lawton, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Jane Wyatt, Reginald Denny
Roles Music Director
Rating66%
Clare, Lady Corven (Diana Wynyard) and Sir Gerald Corven (Colin Clive) are to all outward appearances a happily married upper class British couple. But privately, Lady Clare's husband is physically and emotionally abusive toward her, and one day she can take no more, and walks out of the relationship. Clare books passage on a ship, where she is befriended by a kind and handsome young man, Tony Croom (Frank Lawton). Though their relationship remains strictly platonic, Tony displays strong feelings for Lady Corven, which are duly noted by a private detective hired by Sir Gerald to keep tabs on his wife. Sir Gerald threatens to paint Clare's relationship with Tony in an unflattering light in court, this being a time when divorce was considered scandalous, especially among England's "privileged" classes.
The Church Mouse (1934)
Directed by Monty Banks
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Laura La Plante, Ian Hunter, Edward Chapman, Clifford Heatherley, Jane Carr, Gibb McLaughlin
Roles Music
Rating59%
A bank manager's prim and uptight Secretary suddenly blossoms.
Man's Castle (1933)
, 1h15Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Well-dressed Bill (Spencer Tracy) takes pity on Trina (Loretta Young), a hungry young woman he meets in a city park and treats her to a dinner in a fancy restaurant. After she is finished, he informs the manager he has no money. He then raises such a ruckus that the manager is all too willing to let them go. When Bill learns that Trina is also homeless, he lets her stay at his ramshackle home in a shanty town. Among their neighbors and friends are widowed former preacher Ira (Walter Connolly) and Flossie (Marjorie Rambeau), an alcoholic older woman Ira is trying to reform.