Erich Wolfgang Korngold was the son of a well-known music critic. He was a child prodigy who composed his first orchestral piece at 14 and drew the attention of Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and many other prominent composers and conductors. He had begun a promising career as a serious composer of...See full bio »
1940The Sea Hawk
(music: "Strike for the Shores of Dover" 1940 - uncredited, "Old Spanish Song" - uncredited)
1939The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(music: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Come Live With Me and Be My Love" posthumous 1599 - uncredited / performer: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Come Live With Me and Be My Love" posthumous 1599 - uncredited)
1936Anthony Adverse
(writer: "I'll Wait For You My Love Angela's Song" - uncredited)
1936Give Us This Night
(music: "I Mean to Say I Love You", "Fisherman Song", "Music in the Night and Laughter in the Air", "My Love and I", "Sorrento Song", "Sweet Melody of Night")
(8/18/71) Stage: Wrote (w/Johann Strauß, Bob Wright, Chet Forest) "The Great Waltz," performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, England. Musical. Sari Barabas, Walter Cassel, Diane Todd and David Watson were in the cast.
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[when encountering Bette Davis on the Warner lot after scoring the remake of "Of Human Bondage"] After twelve years some of the scenes in the old version seem a little ridiculous, but we, with our new version, are ten years ahead of time because we are ridiculous already.
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Trivia:
He is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery just a few steps away from another film composer, Walter Jurmann (famous for writing the song "San Francisco"). Korngold is also known for his swashbuckling scores, such as
The Sea Hawk that starred Errol Flynn, and is buried only a a short walk away from another two great romantic leading men, Tyrone Power and Rudolph Valentino.
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