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Conrad Salinger (August 30, 1901, Brookline, Massachusetts – June 17, 1962, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He is credited with orchestrating nine productions on Broadway from 1931 to 1938, and over seventy-five motion pictures from 1931 to 1962. Film scholar Clive Hirschhorn considers him the finest orchestrator ever to work in the movies. Early in his career, film composer John Williams spent much time around Salinger.
During his Broadway apprenticeship Salinger first came across Johnny Green, his future MGM musical director, when they were recording motion picture overtures in the early days of sound at New York to be shown before the main features began. Salinger first came out to Hollywood in the late 1930s to work for Alfred Newman (e.g. Born to Dance and Gunga Din) and also collaborated with the famed Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett on the arrangements for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' 1938 dance picture Carefree.
Salinger orchestrated most of the musicals that MGM is famous for; among them, in addition to the 1951 Show Boat, were Girl Crazy (the 1943 version), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (which included a memorable arrangement of The Trolley Song), Anchors Aweigh (1945), the 1947 film version of Good News, Summer Holiday (1948), the 1949 film version of On the Town, the 1950 film version of Annie Get Your Gun, Singin' in the Rain (1952), the 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), An American in Paris (1951), The Band Wagon (1953), Gene Kelly's pioneering 1956 all-ballet film Invitation to the Dance and the original film musical Gigi (1958). His lush scoring for the ballet sequences in Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon (1954) have come to be regarded as high points of the orchestrator's art in the Golden Age of musicals.
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04 December 1947
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe.
10 April 1952
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
06 December 1962
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
17 July 1956
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
25 April 1941
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
04 December 1942
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers.
13 August 1958
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.
11 June 1948
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco.
04 May 1944
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
05 December 1946
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
11 March 1943
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
26 September 1951
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter.
08 December 1949
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
26 August 1945
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
13 February 1957
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
17 November 1938
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby.
15 April 1948
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family.
18 November 1954
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion.
03 March 1954
A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
22 July 1954
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
28 November 1944
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St.
16 November 1951
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
18 January 1946
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
06 June 1946
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York.
08 September 1954
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty.
25 March 1944
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
07 August 1953
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
08 July 1948
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him.
19 November 1942
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
31 August 1950
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister.
09 March 1949
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team.
29 June 1949
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
08 October 1955
A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah.
21 October 1942
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
26 November 1953
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.
30 August 1955
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown.
19 June 1953
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple.
28 June 1957
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them.
12 May 1942
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch.
01 May 1952
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
24 February 1955
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
04 May 1949
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship.
11 May 1950
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.
29 July 1955
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
05 July 1940
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
04 March 1959
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings.
22 September 1949
Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera.
01 August 1931
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
30 September 1942
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
07 May 1960
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.
09 May 1956
A French ballerina falls in love with an American paratrooper on a two day pass in London near the end of World War II.
18 September 1941
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
