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Max Steiner
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen. Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), Casablanca (1942), The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind (1939). He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Dieterle, William Wyler, Raoul Walsh, John Huston, Irving Pichel, King Vidor, and Frank Capra.
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King Kong
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The Caine Mutiny
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The Most Dangerous Game
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White Banners
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Jezebel
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Gone with the Wind
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Casablanca
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The Searchers
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Trapped and Playing by Someone Else’s Rules
With the upcoming release of Jumanji: Open World, we trace the evolution of the survival game subgenre, following how the core premise of human beings forced to...
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Storming the Deck
From the Bounty to the Caine, mutiny films have always been about more than shipboard insurrection. This chain charts how cinematic rebellions at sea reflect th...
7 films
Double Trouble
From the Academy's rare double nods to the performances that earned them, this chain celebrates actors who competed against themselves in a single awards season...
8 films
From External Beast to Internal Trauma
Here is a five-film narrative chain that traces how the monster evolved from an exotic physical threat into a psychological mirror of society.
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The Weight of Command: Eight Faces of Authority
From courtroom to battlefield, from boardroom to the Oval Office, these eight performances explore the many masks of power and the human cost of wearing them.
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Those Calloways
1964
The Searchers
1956
Helen of Troy
1956
The Caine Mutiny
1954
Caged
1950
White Heat
1949
Key Largo
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
Life with Father
1947
The Big Sleep
1946
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Casablanca
1943
Santa Fe Trail
1940
Virginia City
1940
Gone with the Wind
1939
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
White Banners
1938
Jezebel
1938
A Star Is Born
1937
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936
Alice Adams
1935
Stingaree
1934
King Kong
1933
The Most Dangerous Game
1932
Bird of Paradise
1932