Maurice K. Jerome

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Maurice K. Jerome (born July 18, 1893 in New York , † January 8, 1977 in Encino , California ), was an American film composer , songwriter , pianist and music publisher who was nominated for an Oscar in 1945 and 1946 . His Oscar-nominated songs Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart from the romantic musical comedy Hollywood Canteen from 1944 and Some Sunday Morning from the western Ein Mann der Tat and the lullaby My Little Buckaroo , first presented on the Western Cherokee Strip (1937), became particularly well known .

biography

Jerome attended high school and completed private music studies. Even in high school he worked as a pianist and composer for cinema productions, later he played as a pianist for Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, one of the largest music publishing companies in the United States at the time. In 1911 he founded his own music publishing company in New York. In 1929 he moved to Hollywood, where he soon wrote themed songs for film musicals and all kinds of films. As a result, he concluded an 18-year contract with Warner Bros. from. He made the acquaintance of his colleagues Ted Koehler , Joe Young , Sam M. Lewis and Jack Scholl in ASCAP .

Jerome also worked from around the mid-1930s, composing music for animated films, including nine films in the animated short film series about Porky, beginning in 1937 with Porky's Road Race (music: Through the Courtesy of Love ) and ending in 1941 with Porky's Ant ( Music: Congo ).

His compositions include Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight , Old Pal, Why Don't You Answer Me? , Bright Eyes , Dream Kisses , Through the Courtesy of Love , The Old Apple Tree , You, You Darlin , The Wish That I Wish Tonight , Would You Believe Me? , Song of the Bombardiers , Mary Dear, and It's Victory Day (awarded a silver medal).

In 1945 , Jerome and Ted Koehler received an Oscar nomination in the "Best Song" category for the song Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart from the film musical Hollywood Canteen and the following year together with Ray Heindorf and again Ted Koehler for the song Some Sunday Morning from the Western A man of action . In 1945 the Oscar went to Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke and their song Swinging on a Star from the film drama The Way to Happiness , in 1946 it went to Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers and their song It Might as Well Be Spring from the musical film Fair of Love .

Maurice K. Jerome married the actress Norma Talmadge in 1934 and divorced again that same year. The composer died at the age of 83 and left behind his second wife Rae a son, a daughter and two grandchildren.

The IMDb lists 293 entries for him under Soundtrack, 88 under Music Department and two more.

Compositions (selection)

  • 1928: Dream Kisses for the short films Banjoland and The Larry Ceballos Revue
  • 1929: You and I in the Moonlight for the film Invisible Fetters
  • 1929: Oh! Oh! Oh! What I Know About Love for The Girl from Woolworth's and The Barber Shop Chord
  • 1929: Straight Place and Show for Little Johnny Jones
  • 1929: Help Yourself to Love , Bride Without a Groom , Only the Girl , Everybody's Darling , That Thing for The Painted Angel
  • 1930: Bubbles for the short film Bubbles
  • 1930: Were You Just Pretending? for the film No, No, Nanette
  • 1930: Sweetheart Lane , Kickin 'Up the Dust , Reading and Writing for the short film School Daze
  • 1933: What Is Sweeter Than the Sweetness of I Love You , Draggin 'My Heels Around , Isle of Blues for the film Myrt and Marge
  • 1934: Mandalay (part of the composing team)
  • 1934: Dr. Monica (in the composing team)
  • 1934: The horror of the racetrack (composer of the theme song)
  • 1935: Covered Wagon Days for the film Moonlight on the Prairie
  • 1936: Lucky for the film Höhe Null
  • 1936: Liberty Rules Our Land for the short film Give Me Liberty
  • 1936: Who Owns the City? (in the composing team)
  • 1937: The Roost Song for the film The Prince and the Beggar Boy
  • 1937: The Moon Is in Tears Tonight for the film Kid Galahad
  • 1937: Without Your Love , Ever Since Eve for the film Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
  • 1937: The Colonel of the Regiment for the film The Littlest Diplomat
  • 1937: Over the Trail Again , Give Me a Song , Sunset on the Rainbow Trail , The Prairie Is My Home , My Texas Home , In a Little Prairie Town , God's Country for the film Prairie Thunder
  • 1937: As Sure As You're in Love for the film A guy to fall in love with
  • 1937: My Little Buckaroo , Down the Cottonwood Trail , Along the Old Frontier for the film Cherokee Strip
  • 1938: I Gotta Get Back t My Gal for the movie Golden Earth California
  • 1938: How Do You Do, Mr. Marco? for the film A Slight Case of Murder
  • 1938: Swingin 'Through the Kitchen Door , Drifting on the Rio Grande , The Toast of the Texas Frontier , Look Out for Love for the short film Swingtime in the Movies
  • 1938: love for four (in the composing team)
  • 1939: Dust Be My Destiny for the film Dust Be My Destiny
  • 1939: Hark, Hark, the Meadowlark for Kid Nightingale
  • 1940: Satuday's Children for the film The Dream of a Better Life (Saturday's Children)
  • 1940: My Little Buckaroo , also featured in the film Orchid, the gangster brother
  • 1940: The War of the Roses , Loti's Song , Lullaby for the movie Hell, where is your victory?
  • 1940: The Holliday Wagon Song for the film Land of the Wicked
  • 1940: In the frenzy of the cosmopolitan city (in the composing team)
  • 1941: Love Me for the film Mr. X went astray
  • 1941: My Little Buckaroo , also performed in the film The Bride Came on Delivery
  • 1942: Good Luck, Johnny , Little Johnny Jones , All Aboard for Old Broadway for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • 1942: Knock on Wood for the film Casablanca
  • 1943: Song of the Bombardiers for the film Regardless of Losses
  • 1944: Sweet Dreams, sweetheart for Hollywood Canteen
  • 1945: The Wish That I Wish Tonight for the film Made-to-measure Christmas
  • 1945: Some Sunday Morning for the film A Man of Action
  • 1947: Would You Like a Souvenir? , Who Cares What People Say? for the film Nora Prentiss
  • 1947: Hush-a-Bye , Wee Rose of Killarney , The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee , Miss Lindy Lou , There's Room in My Heart for Them All, Minstrel Days , Let Me Dream Some More , Sing an Irish Song , Show Me the Way to the Kerry Fair , The Mirror Song for the film My Wild Irish Rose
  • 1948: Some Sunday Morning (1945), also played in the film Die Schlangengrube
  • 1948: Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart (1944), also played in the film The Award-Winning Mouse Catcher
  • 1949: Skating on the Old Mill Pond (music, poetry: Jack Scholl, played in the short film Snow Carnival )
  • 1950: A Farm off Old Broadway , My Own True Love and I, How Am I Going to Tell Them at the Yacht Club? , The Winter Serenade , Winter Comes for The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
  • 1951: Alma Mater for the film Goodbye, My Fancy
  • 1952: The Soubrette on the Police Gazette for the film For a Handful of Money
  • 1955: Mi Caballero for the film Der Seefuchs
  • 1956: Gettin 'Nowhere Road , Kentucky Means Paradise , Glory , Calypso , Happy Time Again for the film Glory
  • 1956: Would You Believe Me? (1947), also played in the film Giants
  • 1958: Some Sunday Morning (1945), also played in The Naked and the Dead
  • 1967: Jazz Baby for the film Modern Millie
  • 2000: What Is Sweeter (1933), also played in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi odyssey
  • 2002: You, You Darlin (1940), also played in the film The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisters
  • 2007: Hollywood Canteen (1944), also played in the TV movie The Brothers Warner
  • 2009: Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart (1944), also starred in the video documentary Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Maurice K. Jerome at findagrave.com (English)
  2. ↑ Sweet dreams, Sweetheart from Hollywood Canteen , sung by Joan Leslie
  3. ↑ Some Sunday Morning from the western A Man of Action , sung by Alexis Smith
  4. ↑ My Little Buckaroo , sung by Dick Foran
  5. ↑ a b Maurice K. Jerome at discogs.com (English). Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b M. K. Jerome in cyranos. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ Maurice K. Jerome at worldcat.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jerome, Maurice K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jerome MK
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1977
Place of death Encino , California , United States