Leo F. Forbstein
Leo F. Forbstein
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Leo F. Forbstein | |
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| Born | (1892-10-16)October 16, 1892 Saint Louis, Missouri |
| Died | March 16, 1948(1948-03-16) (aged 55) Hollywood, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Music Director, Warner Bros. |
| Known for | film music |
| Spouse(s) | Bessie Gallas (1914–1948, his death) |
| Children | 1 |
Leo Frank Forbstein (October 16, 1892 – March 16, 1948) was an American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period.
Contents
1 Early years
2 Joins Warner Bros.
3 Oscars and Oscar nominations
4 Personal life
5 Selected film credits
6 References
7 External links
Early years
Forbstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was attracted to music as a child, learning the violin at the age of four. As a conductor at the Royal Theater in St. Joseph, he synchronized the orchestra with the action in silent films; he then became principal conductor at the Newman Theatre in Kansas City, where the organist was future Warner Bros. colleague Carl W. Stalling. In the mid-1920s, Forbstein relocated to Hollywood to head the symphony orchestra at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre.
Joins Warner Bros.
He signed with Warner Bros. as one of the directors of its Vitaphone Orchestra, alongside Erno Rapee (then Warners' general music director), Louis Silvers, and David Mendoza; Forbstein's first screen credit was The Squall in 1929. In 1931, Warners dismissed Rapee and Mendoza in a consolidation and economy move and Forbstein became the company's general music director.
Oscars and Oscar nominations
Leo Forbstein conducts Dick Powell as Joan Blondell looks on in Broadway Gondolier (1935).
In 1936, Forbstein and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold were write-in candidates for the Oscar for Best Music, Score for their work on Captain Blood. The following year, he was nominated officially for The Charge of the Light Brigade and Anthony Adverse, winning for the latter.[citation needed] He was nominated again for The Life of Emile Zola in 1938.
Personal life
Forbstein was married to the former Bess Gallas from October 16, 1914 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. They had one daughter, Harriett (born 1915), who married assistant director Melvin Dellar.[1] Leo Forbstein was entombed in the Corridor of Immortality at Home of Peace Cemetery.
Selected film credits
The Squall (1929)
The Widow from Chicago (1930)
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
The Millionaire (1931)- Bought! (1931)
The Star Witness (1931)
Union Depot (1932)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)- ’’British Agent’’ (1934)
Fog Over Frisco (1934)
The Big Shakedown (1934)
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Broadway Hostess (1935)
Front Page Woman (1935)
The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
Special Agent (1935)
Times Square Playboy (1936)
The Golden Arrow (1936)
It's Love I'm After (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Dark Victory (1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
The Letter (1940) (1940)- ’’Footsteps In The Dark (1941)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Sergeant York (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Kings Row (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Corn Is Green (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Winter Meeting (1948)
Rope (1948)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
References
^ "The engagement of Harriett Forbstein to Melvin D. Dellar has been announced", Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1935
External links
Leo F. Forbstein on IMDb (Date of death, Feb 12, 1948, on IMDB is incorrect)
Leo F. Forbstein at Find a Grave
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Categories:
- American conductors (music)
- American film score composers
- Male film score composers
- Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners
- Musicians from St. Louis
- 1892 births
- 1948 deaths
- 20th-century conductors (music)
- 20th-century American composers
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