Adolph Deutsch

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Adolph Deutsch (October 20, 1897 - January 1, 1980) was an Academy Award-winning composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! (1955), and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). The London, England-born Deutsch was also nominated for The Band Wagon (1953) and the 1951 film version of Show Boat , for which he conducted the orchestra. For Broadway and Hollywood, he conducted, composed and arranged music, but did not write songs, not even for the Broadway shows on which he worked. In addition to his music for westerns and his conducting of the scores for musicals, Deutsch also composed for films noir, including The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Nobody Lives Forever (1946), and the Billy Wilder comedies The Apartment (1960), and Some Like it Hot (1959). In 1914, Deutsch was "a Buffalo movie house musician," accompanying silent films.[1] (Source: Buffalo News April 15, 1944) Deutsch began his composing career on Broadway in the 1920s and 1930s before working for Hollywood films beginning in the late 1930s. For Broadway, he orchestrated Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer and George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's Pardon My English. He retired in 1961. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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The Apartment (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Some Like it Hot

DEUTSCH: The Maltese Falcon / High Sierra

The Apartment (Original Soundtrack from "Das Apartment")

Theme from "The Apartment" (Original Soundtrack Theme from "The Apartment")

The Apartment

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

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Annie Get Your Gun (Original Soundtrack) [1950]

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Some Like It Hot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Jazz Noire: Darktown Sleaze From The Mean Streets Of 1940s L.A.

Murder Is My Beat - Classic Film Noir Themes And Scenes

The Apartment (Original Film Soundtrack)

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