Friedrich Hollaender

Birthday:
10/18/1896
Place of birth:
London, UK:
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I. Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Walter Mehring, Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked in venues like Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch ensemble at the Großes Schauspielhaus or the Wilde Bühne led by Trude Hesterberg at the Theater des Westens in Charlottenburg, where he established the Tingel-Tangel-Theater cabaret in 1931. In 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger, the couple divorced in 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Hollaender had his final breakthrough, when he wrote the film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", performed by Marlene Dietrich. He had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish descent[1] and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Academy Award nomination) and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair (on the songs, "Black Market", "Illusions" and "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nominations for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth, released in 1941, which details the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted the Nuremberg Laws. In 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich. He made a cameo appearance in Billy Wilder's film comedy One, Two, Three (1960) as a Kapellmeister. Hollaender died 1976 in Munich and is buried in the Obergiesing Ostfriedhof.

Credits

One, Two, Three (1961)
as Conductor at Grand Hotel (uncredited)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
as Piano Player at The Lorelei (uncredited)
Manpower (1941)
as Accompanist (uncredited)
Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht (1931)
as Vorsitzender der „Weißen Weste“
Der blaue Engel (1930)
as Pianist (uncredited)
Die Leere Mitte
Music
Blå ängeln
Music
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
Songs
Das Spukschloss im Spessart
Original Music Composer
We're No Angels
Original Music Composer
Phffft
Original Music Composer
Sabrina
Original Music Composer
It Should Happen to You
Original Music Composer
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Original Music Composer
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Songs
Androcles and the Lion
Original Music Composer
The First Time
Original Music Composer
Darling, How Could You!
Original Music Composer
My Forbidden Past
Original Music Composer
Born Yesterday
Original Music Composer
Walk Softly, Stranger
Original Music Composer
Born to Be Bad
Original Music Composer
Never a Dull Moment
Music
A Dangerous Profession
Original Music Composer
Bride for Sale
Original Music Composer
Strange Bargain
Original Music Composer
Adventure in Baltimore
Original Music Composer
Caught
Original Music Composer
A Woman's Secret
Original Music Composer
A Foreign Affair
Original Music Composer
Wallflower
Original Music Composer
Berlin Express
Original Music Composer
Stallion Road
Original Music Composer
The Perfect Marriage
Original Music Composer
The Verdict
Original Music Composer
Never Say Goodbye
Original Music Composer
Janie Gets Married
Original Music Composer
The Bride Wore Boots
Original Music Composer
Cinderella Jones
Original Music Composer
My Name Is Julia Ross
Additional Music
Christmas in Connecticut
Original Music Composer
The Affairs of Susan
Original Music Composer
Conflict
Original Music Composer
Leave It to Blondie
Original Music Composer
The Missing Juror
Additional Music
The Soul of a Monster
Music
Once Upon a Time
Original Music Composer
The Chance of a Lifetime
Additional Music
Princess O'Rourke
Music
Background to Danger
Original Music Composer
The Talk of the Town
Original Music Composer
Wings for the Eagle
Original Music Composer
Murder in the Big House
Original Music Composer
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Original Music Composer
You Belong to Me
Original Music Composer
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Original Music Composer
Million Dollar Baby
Original Music Composer
Footsteps in the Dark
Original Music Composer
Life with Henry
Original Music Composer
Victory
Original Music Composer
South of Suez
Original Music Composer
Arise, My Love
Songs
Seven Sinners
Songs
Golden Gloves
Original Music Composer
The Great McGinty
Original Music Composer
Queen of the Mob
Original Music Composer
Safari
Original Music Composer
Typhoon
Original Music Composer
Too Many Husbands
Music
The Farmer's Daughter
Songs
Remember the Night
Original Music Composer
Destry Rides Again
Songs
Disputed Passage
Original Music Composer
Honeymoon in Bali
Original Music Composer
Night Work
Music
Man About Town
Songs
Man About Town
Original Music Composer
Invitation to Happiness
Original Music Composer
Midnight
Original Music Composer
Zaza
Songs
Zaza
Music
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Original Music Composer
True Confession
Original Music Composer
Angel
Music
Artists & Models
Songs
Easy Living
Original Music Composer
Internes Can't Take Money
Original Music Composer
John Meade's Woman
Original Music Composer
The Jungle Princess
Music
Hideaway Girl
Music
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Music
Murder with Pictures
Original Music Composer
A Son Comes Home
Music
Desire
Original Music Composer
Till We Meet Again
Original Music Composer
Anything Goes
Songs
Rose of the Rancho
Original Music Composer
Hands Across the Table
Original Music Composer
Accent on Youth
Original Music Composer
Shanghai
Original Music Composer
I Am Suzanne!
Music
The Only Girl
Director
The Only Girl
Music Arranger
Moi et l'impératrice
Director
Ich und die Kaiserin
Director
Tumultes
Original Music Composer
Stürme der Leidenschaft
Music
Flagrant délit
Songs
Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht
Original Music Composer
Der Weg nach Rio
Music
Einbrecher
Original Music Composer
Die große Sehnsucht
Music
Der Andere
Music
Der blaue Engel
Original Music Composer
Kreuzzug des Weibes
Music Score Producer
Prinz Kuckuck
Music

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