W. Franke Harling Trailers
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W. Franke Harling (January 18, 1887 – November 22, 1958) was a composer of film scores, operas, and popular music.
Born William Franke Harling in London, he was educated at the Grace Choir Church School in New York City. After working as an organist and choir director at the Church of the Resurrection in Brussels, he spent two years at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and composed both its hymn, called "The Corps," and its official march, "West Point Forever." In 1918, Harling contributed incidental music to the Broadway production of the 1898 play Pan and the Young Shepherd by Maurice Hewlett. In 1926, he collaborated with Laurence Stallings on Deep River, a voodoo-themed opera set in New Orleans in 1835. It opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on October 4 and ran for 32 performances.
Harling began his Hollywood career in 1928. His film credits include The Vagabond King, This Is the Night, So Big!, A Bill of Divorcement, Blonde Venus, A Farewell to Arms, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Monte Carlo, Souls at Sea, and Penny Serenade.
Harling won the Academy Award for Best Music Scoring for Stagecoach (1939) and was nominated for Souls at Sea (1937) and Three Russian Girls (1944).
Harling's popular songs include "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (with Richard A. Whiting) popularized by Jeanette MacDonald in 1930 and Lou Christie thirty years later, and "Sing, You Sinners", originally performed by Lillian Roth in 1930 and a hit for Tony Bennett in 1950.
Harling won the Bispham Memorial Medal Award for his jazz-oriented opera A Light from St. Agnes.
Harling died in Sierra Madre, California and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.
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10 October 1936
An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
01 July 1941
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones.
31 January 1931
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
05 December 1931
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
09 April 1932
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
06 August 1931
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment.
14 November 1931
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business.
31 October 1933
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
01 April 1932
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel.
19 November 1933
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
27 March 1941
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more.
07 November 1935
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England.
27 December 1930
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
12 February 1932
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
30 October 1932
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer.
16 July 1938
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight.
10 December 1934
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
18 January 1930
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act.
24 April 1941
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
18 June 1932
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
08 December 1932
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley.
23 September 1932
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
19 May 1932
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
12 February 1942
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street.
16 September 1928
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
01 June 1938
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight.
03 September 1937
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
30 January 1937
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
07 March 1930
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission.
19 November 1929
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
18 December 1933
A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
30 December 1943
Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad.
30 December 1932
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
30 December 1932
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it.
25 December 1932
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
20 November 1933
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
20 December 1935
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a widow.
23 March 1932
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances.
24 January 1932
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France.
25 March 1933
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
27 August 1930
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
01 December 1930
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski.
28 May 1932
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
08 April 1932
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks.
28 September 1932
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.
25 October 1929
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
06 August 1934
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
29 May 1941
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
12 July 1929
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
04 May 1933
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
07 July 1944
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in.
16 July 1932
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son.
09 October 1932
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
16 November 1944
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
17 July 1941
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.
16 September 1928
Waterfront is a 1928 silent film released with sound effects and music, produced and released by First National Pictures.
11 January 1930
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases.
