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George Duning (February 25, 1908 – February 27, 2000) was an American musicial and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
In his early 20s Duning played trumpet and piano for the Kay Kyser band, later arranging most of the music for Kyser's radio program, Kollege of Musical Knowledge. It was during the Kyser band's appearance in Carolina Blues (1944) that Duning's work was noticed, leading to a Columbia contract. Duning joined the Navy in 1942 and served as a conductor and arranger with Armed Forces Radio.
Film and TV career
Morris Stoloff signed Duning to Columbia Pictures in 1946, where he worked almost exclusively through the early 1960s, collaborating most often with director Richard Quine.
Prominent Duning scores are two of the best examples of western genre – the original 3:10 to Yuma, and Cowboy – and those he composed for films as diverse as Picnic, The World of Suzie Wong, The Devil at Four O'Clock, Bell, Book, and Candle and Toys in the Attic.
Duning shared music adaptation credit with Nelson Riddle for the highly successful 1957 film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey starring Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth.
During his career, Duning worked on more than 300 film and television scores. His notable television work includes Tightrope, Star Trek, The Big Valley and Naked City, and TV miniseries, such as Top of the Hill (1980), The Dream Merchants (1980) and Goliath Awaits (1981).
The quality of his work remained consistently and remarkably high in any medium. His last feature film was The Man with Bogart's Face (1980), and he retired in 1981. Nominated five times for an Academy Award, Duning never won.
Duning was an active citizen of the music industry, serving on the ASCAP Board of Directors from 1972 to 1985, and as ASCAP Vice President from 1978 to 1979. He also served on the Board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was active in numerous other music industry organizations. In addition to his Academy Award nominations, Duning was also honored with awards from the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, Downbeat Magazine, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and his home state of Indiana (1993 Indiana Composer of the Year).
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21 January 1975
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
01 September 1956
A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
02 February 1949
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
15 May 1977
First of two reunion movies starring the original cast of the popular 1950's series "Father Knows Best.
27 June 1946
A young Czechoslovak orphan, Loddy Bicek, befriended by an American army sergeant, is brought into the United States as a stowaway by the soldier.
24 January 1945
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house.
22 February 1945
Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover.
24 December 1950
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
24 November 1970
A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage.
22 October 1959
Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood.
07 August 1957
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
28 August 1953
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
17 August 1949
In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement.
13 August 1951
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
17 November 1959
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
02 December 1949
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
05 November 1971
Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town.
24 February 1970
A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and other difficulties like a movie star who refuses to cooperate with her treatment.
14 October 1953
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
26 May 1949
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
25 April 1946
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
25 December 1958
Gillian Holroyd, a modern-day witch, becomes smitten with her handsome upstairs neighbor, Shep Henderson.
19 August 1955
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
15 May 1952
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret.
13 April 1962
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
24 May 1961
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
16 November 1973
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin.
02 May 1973
Terrifying wax figures of renowned personalities, such as Attila the Hun and Jack the Ripper, surround the sale of a London museum.
02 August 1957
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
22 June 1955
Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle')and would-be singer Jerry Dennis (Frankie Laine).
10 November 1960
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
14 June 1962
Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud.
10 June 1949
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
02 May 1956
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
01 February 1953
It's 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort.
09 November 1956
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
24 February 1963
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good.
22 September 1955
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street".
15 January 1948
A wealthy man hires a private detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
01 November 1943
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
24 February 1955
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II.
19 November 1958
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
24 March 1969
Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle in his quest for the meaning of life in which he befriends a runway bride, another searching soul, in this pilot for the TV series of the same name, and theatrically released in some parts of the world including Spain.
21 March 1949
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss.
01 March 1973
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family.
07 November 1955
A wicked Southern woman ruthlessly manipulates her family.
01 October 1957
Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.
17 August 1957
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.
02 March 1971
A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
29 July 1952
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
29 December 1960
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger.
10 June 1955
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
01 July 1956
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal.
02 November 1950
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
03 March 1961
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
01 October 1958
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews.
22 August 1956
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York.
25 December 1962
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
06 October 1970
An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
01 October 1950
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient.
