Joseph Gershenson
Joseph E. Gershenson , also known as Joseph G. Sanford (born January 12, 1904 in Kishinev , Russian Empire , now Moldova , † January 18, 1988 in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) ) was an American orchestra director and film producer .
Life
In the 1920s, Gershenson began his career as a musical companion for silent films in cinemas . He later joined the US film production company Universal Pictures and headed the music department there from 1940. From 1949 until his departure in 1969 after the film Angel in My Pocket , he was named musical director of over 300 Universal films. He also worked as a film producer , sometimes under the pseudonym Joseph G. Sanford . He published a number of musical compositions under his own name. In the short film Fits and Benefits (1938) and the thriller Mitternachtsspitzen ( Midnight Lace , 1960) he also took on a small role as a band leader.
Joseph Gershenson was nominated twice for an Oscar : 1954 together with Henry Mancini in the category " Best Original Score for a Music Film" for The Glenn Miller Story , and in 1967 together with André Previn in the category "Best Music Adaptation" for Modern Millie - Reicher Man Wanted (Thoroughly Modern Millie) .
Filmography (selection)
- 1943: The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
- 1945: Dracula's House (House of Dracula)
- 1951: In the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)
- 1951: Behind the Walls of Horror (The Strange Door)
- 1953: The City Under the Sea (City Beneath the Sea)
- 1954: The Iron Knight of Falworth (The Black Shield of Falworth)
- 1954: The Magnificent Obsession
- 1954: Weak Alibi (Naked Alibi)
- 1955: Abbott and Costello as mummy robbers (Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy)
- 1955: With a fist as hard as steel (Man Without a Star)
- 1955: The house on the beach (the Beach Female)
- 1955: Tarantula (Tarantula)
- 1955: To Hell and Back (To Hell and Back)
- 1955: The Spear of Vengeance (Chief Crazy Horse)
- 1957: The Monolith Monsters (The Monolith Monsters)
- 1957: Mein Mann Gottfried (My Man Godfrey)
- 1958: The horror creeps through the night (Monster on the Campus)
- 1958: To the last cartridge (The Story of Hemp Brown)
- 1958: The White Devil of Arkansas (Ride a Crooked Trail)
Web links
- Joseph Gershenson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claire Nina Norelli: Scoring the Silents , article at soundsonsight.org of July 13, 2009, with a short interview statement by Gershenson on his silent film work (accessed April 19, 2011) .
- ↑ Compositions by Joseph Gershenson in the official ASCAP database (accessed April 19, 2011).
- ↑ Official Oscar database ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , entries on Joseph Gershenson under 1954 and 1967 (accessed April 19, 2011) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gershenson, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gershenson, Joseph J .; Sanford, Joseph G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician, director, film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kishinev , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1988 |
| Place of death | Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) |