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Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger.
Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a movie house in Mechanicville in his early teens. In 1928, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a musical arranger before heading to Hollywood. He gained his first job as an orchestrator at MGM, where he worked on Hollywood Revue of 1929, and subsequently went on the road playing piano for Lupe Vélez.
After completing this engagement, he joined Warner Bros., composing and/or arranging and conducting music exclusively for the studio for nearly forty years. Heindorf, along with Georgie Stoll at MGM, were jazz aficionados well known in the black entertainment community for employing minority musicians in their studio music departments.
He undertook the musical direction of Judy Garland's comeback film A Star is Born (1954) and made a cameo appearance as himself in the premiere party sequence where Jack Carson's character congratulates him on a great score.
Among Heindorf's other screen credits are 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, The Great Lie, Knute Rockne All American, Kings Row, Night and Day, Tea for Two, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Jazz Singer, No Time for Sergeants, The Helen Morgan Story, Marjorie Morningstar, Damn Yankees, Auntie Mame, Finian's Rainbow, and his final musical for Jack L. Warner, 1776.
Between 1943 and 1969 he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, 17 nominations for Best Score and 1 nomination for Best Song. Heindorf won three, in the category of Best Score of a Musical, for Yankee Doodle Dandy, This is the Army, and The Music Man. His wins for the former two films made him the first to accomplish consecutive wins in a musical category.
Heindorf died in Tarzana, California, aged 71, and reputedly was buried with his favorite conducting baton.
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20 April 1935
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
22 December 1939
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
18 September 1951
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
27 June 1951
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
12 March 1942
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
09 April 1954
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
12 September 1936
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
12 February 1953
When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumstantial evidence turns suspicion toward him.
18 January 1941
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers.
29 September 1934
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
11 March 1933
Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
20 May 1952
Musical version of the comedy, "Charley's Aunt," by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.
24 December 1947
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
20 August 1932
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
09 November 1972
Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States.
26 August 1939
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life.
04 November 1953
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
10 December 1932
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
27 March 1948
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble.
08 February 1941
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society.
21 March 1941
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
21 October 1933
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
23 June 1939
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman.
29 May 1942
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
09 March 1946
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
27 November 1929
This short showcases composers and lyricists of songs that are now considered standards of American popular music.
01 October 1954
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
15 August 1934
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed.
19 May 1951
Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.
21 February 1941
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses.
09 October 1968
An Irishman and his daughter arrive in the American South with a stolen pot of gold, hoping to make their fortune.
14 November 1942
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
10 February 1951
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
03 February 1932
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
31 March 1956
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
01 March 1950
Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.
15 June 1938
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband.
02 May 1947
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
25 June 1948
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating.
01 December 1954
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
28 October 1939
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver.
05 July 1958
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?
05 October 1940
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
26 December 1946
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca.
04 March 1959
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.
29 October 1932
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
26 March 1953
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
15 January 1938
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere.
25 September 1943
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
23 March 1956
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart.
21 March 1936
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
26 January 1950
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly.
27 June 1945
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
17 February 1940
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
11 November 1959
A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.
13 January 1943
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
24 October 1951
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
07 December 1931
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
15 March 1935
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
21 May 1959
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder.
