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Conrad Salinger (1901–1962)

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MGM's most prominent orchestrator of musicals in the 1940s and 1950s. Along with Johnny Green, he is credited with giving the best M-G-M musicals of those years the orchestral sound quality that they had. See more trivia »

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Filmography

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1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo (orchestrator)
 
1959 Markham (TV series) (music score - 2 episodes)
The Duelists (1959) (music score)
The Marble Face (1959) (music score)
 
1959 Porgy and Bess (orchestrator)
 
1958 The Big Country (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1958 Gigi (orchestrator)
 
1957 Raintree County (composer: additional music - uncredited, orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1957 Silk Stockings (orchestrator)
 
1957 Funny Face (orchestrator)
 
1956 High Society (orchestrator)
 
1956 Gaby (music adaptor)
 
1955 Quentin Durward (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1955 Kismet (orchestral arranger)
 
1955 It's Always Fair Weather (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1955 The Battle of Gettysburg (documentary short) (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1954 Brigadoon (orchestrator)
 
1954 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (orchestrations)
 
1954 The Great Diamond Robbery (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 Kiss Me Kate (orchestrations)
 
1953 The Band Wagon (orchestrations)
 
1952 Desperate Search (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1952 The Prisoner of Zenda (music adaptor: Alfred Newman's 1937 score)
 
1952 Singin' in the Rain (orchestrations)
 
1952 The Belle of New York (orchestrator)
 
1951 The Man with a Cloak (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1951 An American in Paris (orchestrator)
 
1951 Show Boat (orchestrations)
 
1951 The Great Caruso (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1951 Royal Wedding (composer: additional music - uncredited, orchestrator)
 
1950 Pagan Love Song (orchestrator)
 
1950 Summer Stock (orchestrator)
 
1950 The Toast of New Orleans (orchestrator)
 
1950 Three Little Words (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1950 Annie Get Your Gun (composer: additional music - uncredited, orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1950 Stars in My Crown (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1950 Side Street (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1949 On the Town (orchestrations)
 
1949 That Midnight Kiss (orchestrator)
 
1949 In the Good Old Summertime (orchestrator: vocals)
 
1949 The Great Sinner (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1949 The Barkleys of Broadway (composer: additional music - uncredited, orchestrator)
 
1948 Words and Music (orchestrator)
 
1948 The Kissing Bandit (additional orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1948 Easter Parade (orchestrator)
 
1948 The Pirate (orchestrator)
 
1948 B.F.'s Daughter (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1948 Summer Holiday (orchestrator)
 
1948 Alias a Gentleman (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1947 Good News (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By (orchestrator)
 
1946 Courage of Lassie (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1946 Centennial Summer (orchestrator)
 
1946 Cluny Brown (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1946 The Harvey Girls (orchestrator)
 
1945 Yolanda and the Thief (composer: additional music - uncredited, orchestrator)
 
1945 Ziegfeld Follies (orchestrator)
 
1945 Thrill of a Romance (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1945 The Clock (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis (orchestrator)
 
1944 An American Romance (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Till We Meet Again (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Meet the People (composer: additional music - uncredited, orchestrator)
 
1944 Gaslight (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Two Girls and a Sailor (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Main Street Today (short) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 No Exceptions (short) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 No News Is Good News (short) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Girl Crazy (orchestrator)
 
1943 Swing Fever (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 The Man from Down Under (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1943 Young Ideas (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1943 Nursery Rhyme Mysteries (short) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Best Foot Forward (music arranger - uncredited, orchestrator)
 
1943 The Ox-Bow Incident (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Crash Dive (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Tonight We Raid Calais (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 The Fighting Guerrillas (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Suckerbait (documentary short) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 For God and Country (short) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 The Black Swan (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 You Were Never Lovelier (music arranger)
 
1942 Once Upon a Honeymoon (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 For Me and My Gal (orchestrator, vocal arranger)
 
1942 Thunder Birds [Soldiers of the Air] (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Panama Hattie (orchestrator, vocal arranger)
 
1942 The Major and the Minor (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Wake Island (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Are Husbands Necessary? (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Whispering Ghosts (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Prelude to War (documentary) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Ship Ahoy (orchestrator, vocal arranger)
 
1942 Rings on Her Fingers (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Secret Agent of Japan (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Castle in the Desert (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Lady for a Night (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Babes on Broadway (orchestrator, vocal arranger)
 
1941 Remember the Day (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Rise and Shine (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Belle Starr (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Lady Be Good (orchestrator, vocal arranger)
 
1941 Sun Valley Serenade (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Wild Geese Calling (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Charley's Aunt (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 The Great American Broadcast (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Ziegfeld Girl (orchestrator, vocal arranger)
 
1941 Sleepers West (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Golden Hoofs (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Western Union (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Chad Hanna (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Little Nellie Kelly (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Street of Memories (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Youth Will Be Served (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Down Argentine Way (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Strike Up the Band (orchestrator, vocal arranger)
 
1940 Yesterday's Heroes (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 The Westerner (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Maryland (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (orchestrator - as Salinger, vocal arranger - as Salinger)
 
1940 Four Sons (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 The Blue Bird (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Intermezzo: A Love Story (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1939 Gunga Din (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1938 Carefree (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1938 It's in the Stars (short) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1931 The Smiling Lieutenant (music arranger - uncredited)
 
Show ShowComposer (45 titles)
1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo (uncredited)
 
1960-1962 Bachelor Father (TV series)
Boys Will Be (1962)
What Men Don't Know (1962)
 
1960 The Slowest Gun in the West (TV movie)
 
1960 Startime (TV series)
The Young Juggler (1960)
 
1959 Wagon Train (TV series)
The Greenhorn Story (1959)
 
1958 Gigi (uncredited)
 
1958 Lonelyhearts
 
1957 Silk Stockings (uncredited)
 
1956 High Society (uncredited)
 
1956 Gaby
 
1955 Kismet (uncredited)
 
1955 Hit the Deck (uncredited)
 
1954 Brigadoon (uncredited)
 
1954 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (uncredited)
 
1954 Tennessee Champ
 
1953 Kiss Me Kate (uncredited)
 
1953 The Band Wagon (uncredited)
 
1953 Dream Wife
 
1952 The Belle of New York (uncredited)
 
1951 The Unknown Man
 
1951 An American in Paris (uncredited)
 
1951 Show Boat (uncredited)
 
1950 Pagan Love Song (uncredited)
 
1950 Summer Stock (uncredited)
 
1950 Nancy Goes to Rio (uncredited)
 
1949 On the Town (uncredited)
 
1949 That Midnight Kiss (uncredited)
 
1949 Take Me Out to the Ball Game (uncredited)
 
1948 Words and Music (uncredited)
 
1948 Easter Parade (uncredited)
 
1948 The Pirate (uncredited)
 
1948 Summer Holiday
 
1947 Good News (uncredited)
 
1947 Dark Delusion (uncredited)
 
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By (uncredited)
 
1946 Two Sisters from Boston (uncredited)
 
1946 The Harvey Girls (uncredited)
 
1945 Ziegfeld Follies (uncredited)
 
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis (uncredited)
 
1944 Rationing (uncredited)
 
1943 Girl Crazy (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (7 titles)
2000 Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci (video documentary short) (writer: "Together Again")
 
1985 That's Dancing! (documentary) ("Sinbad the Sailor")
 
1975/I The Sunshine Boys (arranger: "Make 'Em Laugh" - uncredited)
 
1956 Invitation to the Dance (music: "Sinbad the Sailor" / arranger: "Sinbad the Sailor")
 
1951 An American in Paris (arranger: "An American in Paris Ballet" - uncredited)
 
1948 The Pirate (writer: "Pirate Ballet" - uncredited)
 
1943 Best Foot Forward (arranger: "Alive and Kickin'" 1941)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1948 The Pirate (instrumental arrangements)
 
Show ShowThanks (3 titles)
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary) (grateful acknowledgment: to the music arrangers and orchestrators)
 
1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (documentary) (acknowledgement: the special style and content of the musical sequences were created by)
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary) (acknowledgment: helped to give films their special style and sound)
 

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Other Works:

(1937) Orchestrated some of the music in the popular Ed Wynn Broadway show "Hooray for What". See more »

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Trivia:

MGM's most prominent orchestrator of musicals in the 1940s and 1950s. Along with Johnny Green, he is credited with giving the best M-G-M musicals of those years the orchestral sound quality that they had. See more »

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