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Robert Emmett Dolan (1906–1972)

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Composer, songwriter ("A Home in the Meadow"), film executive and conductor, educated at Loyola College (on scholarship) and a piano student of his mother, and later, Letonal, Mortimer Wilson, Joseph Schillinger, and Ernst Toch. He became music director for MGM in 1941, and also was the music director for the Broadway productions "Good News"... See full bio »

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in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Died:

(age 66) in California, USA
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1965-1966 O.K. Crackerby! (TV series) (composer: theme music - 17 episodes)
– Operation Susan (1966) (composer: theme music)
– 3+1=1 (1965) (composer: theme music)
– Smile and the World... (1965) (composer: theme music)
– Bitter Ravioli (1965) (composer: theme music)
– Crackerby and the Cuckoo Game (1965) (composer: theme music)
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1962 How the West Was Won (associate conductor - uncredited, music co-ordinator)
 
1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla (composer: stock music - US version)
 
1961 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (TV series documentary) (conductor - 3 episodes, 1961) (orchestrator - 3 episodes, 1961)
– Gotterdammerung (1961) (conductor, orchestrator)
– D-Day (1961) (conductor, orchestrator)
– Strike Hard, Strike Home! (1961) (conductor, orchestrator)
 
1956 The Leather Saint (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1954 Alaska Seas (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1952 Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (musical director)
 
1952 The Treasure of Lost Canyon (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1950 Let's Dance (musical director)
 
1949 Top o' the Morning (musical director)
 
1949 The Great Gatsby (musical director - uncredited)
 
1949 Sorrowful Jones (musical director - uncredited)
 
1948 Saigon (musical director - uncredited)
 
1947 Road to Rio (musical director)
 
1947 Where There's Life (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1946 Blue Skies (musical director)
 
1946 The Blue Dahlia (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1946 Road to Utopia (conductor: musical numbers)
 
1945 The Stork Club (musical director)
 
1945 Duffy's Tavern (musical director)
 
1945 Incendiary Blonde (musical director)
 
1945 Bring on the Girls (musical director)
 
1944 Here Come the Waves (musical director)
 
1944 Going My Way (musical director)
 
1944 Lady in the Dark (music director)
 
1943 Let's Face It (musical director)
 
1943 Dixie (musical director)
 
1943 Happy Go Lucky (musical director)
 
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm (musical director)
 
1942 Holiday Inn (musical director)
 
1941 Louisiana Purchase (musical director)
 
1941 Birth of the Blues (music supervisor, musical director)
 
1930 Sweet Kitty Bellairs (music effects - as Bobby Dolan)
 
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1962 Project XX (TV series documentary)
– The World of Jimmie Doolittle (1962)
 
1960 The Mickey Rooney Show (TV movie)
 
1959 The Man Who Understood Women
 
1957 The Three Faces of Eve
 
1952 My Son John
 
1950 Let's Dance (uncredited)
 
1949 Top o' the Morning (uncredited)
 
1949 The Great Gatsby
 
1949 Sorrowful Jones
 
1949 My Own True Love
 
1948 Good Sam
 
1948 Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
 
1948 Saigon
 
1947 Road to Rio (uncredited)
 
1947 The Perils of Pauline
 
1947 The Trouble with Women
 
1947 Welcome Stranger
 
1947 Dear Ruth
 
1947 My Favorite Brunette
 
1946 Cross My Heart
 
1946 Blue Skies (uncredited)
 
1946 Monsieur Beaucaire
 
1945 The Stork Club (uncredited)
 
1945 The Bells of St. Mary's
 
1945 Duffy's Tavern (uncredited)
 
1945 Incendiary Blonde (uncredited)
 
1945 Murder, He Says (uncredited)
 
1945 Salty O'Rourke
 
1945 Bring on the Girls (uncredited)
 
1944 Here Come the Waves (uncredited)
 
1944 I Love a Soldier
 
1944 Going My Way (uncredited)
 
1944 Lady in the Dark
 
1944 Standing Room Only
 
1943 Let's Face It (uncredited)
 
1943 Dixie (uncredited)
 
1943 Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
 
1943 Happy Go Lucky (uncredited)
 
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm (uncredited)
 
1942 Once Upon a Honeymoon
 
1942 The Major and the Minor (music score)
 
1942 Holiday Inn (uncredited)
 
1942 Are Husbands Necessary?
 
1942 Dr. Broadway (uncredited)
 
1942 True to the Army (uncredited)
 
1941 Louisiana Purchase (uncredited)
 
1941 Birth of the Blues (uncredited)
 
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1962 How the West Was Won (music: "Home in the Meadow" 1962, "Raise a Ruckus" 1962, "Wait for the Hoedown" 1962 / fragment, "What Was Your Name in the States?" 1962, "I'm Bound for the Promised Land" - uncredited / lyrics: "I'm Bound for the Promised Land" - uncredited)
 
1959 The Man Who Understood Women (music: "A Paris Valentine")
 
1951 My Favorite Spy (music: "I WIND UP - TAKING A FALL")
 
1951 A Place in the Sun (music: "Pouplet d'Or" - uncredited)
 
1949 Dear Wife (music: "Fine Thing" - uncredited)
 
1946 Cross My Heart (music: "Cross My Heart")
 
1944 Lady in the Dark (writer: "Artist's Waltz" - uncredited)
 
1931 Bosko's Holiday (short) (music: "Hullabaloo" - uncredited)
 
1930 Dancing Sweeties (writer: "Hullabaloo" 1930 - uncredited)
 
1930 Sweet Kitty Bellairs (writer: "Drunk Song" 1930 - uncredited, "Duelling Song" 1930 - uncredited, "Highwayman Song" 1930 - uncredited, "My Love, I'll Be Waiting for You" 1930 - uncredited, "Peggy's Leg" 1930 - uncredited, "Pump Room Song" 1930 - uncredited, "Song of the Town of Bath" 1930 - uncredited, "Tally Ho" 1930 - uncredited, "You, I Love But You" 1930 - uncredited / as Bobby Dolan)
 
1929 Red Hot Rhythm (music: "Red Hot Rhythm", "On The Night That Elmer Died", "Out Of The Past", "At Last I'm In Love", "My Idea Of Heaven" / lyrics: "Red Hot Rhythm", "On The Night That Elmer Died", "Out Of The Past", "At Last I'm In Love", "My Idea Of Heaven")
 
1929 The Sophomore ("Little by Little" / as Bobby Dolan)
 
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1956 Anything Goes (producer)
 
1956 The 28th Annual Academy Awards (TV special) (producer)
 
1955 The Girl Rush (producer)
 
1954 White Christmas (producer)
 

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Other Works:

May Wine (1935). Musical. Music by Sigmund Romberg. Additional orchestrations by Russell Bennett. Material by Frank Mandel. Adapted from the "The Happy Alienist" by Erich von Stroheim and Wallace Smith. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Musical Direction by Robert Emmett Dolan. Music orchestrated by Don Walker... See more »

Alternate Names:

Bobby Dolan | Robert E. Dolan
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Personal Quote:

[observation, 1973] As opposed to the 1930s or '40s, when song- writers like Gershwin and Kern and Rodgers and Arlen were using harmonics, I actually think we've retrogressed. Those days were much richer musically. Remember how the word 'lush' was applied to our popular music? One of the things that I've said to my own son Casey... See more »

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Star Sign:

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