Michael Steinore

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Michael Steinore , born as Michael Kohn , (* 1902 in New York , United States ; † February 19, 1961 in Los Angeles ) was an American sound specialist , sound engineer and special effects artist who was awarded three times for the Oscar .

Life

Michael Steinore was born in New York in 1902 as the son of Herschel Kohn and Lena Steinore. Nothing is currently known about his exact professional training. In 1934 Steinore worked on his first film, the adventure film Tarzan's Retribution . Johnny Weissmüller and Maureen O'Sullivan played the leading roles. Steinore was responsible for the sound. In Tarzan's Revenge (1936) he was again on the team in the Sound Department. He also worked on the multi-award-winning musical film The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland as Dorothy; he was responsible for the sound editing.

With the war film Stand by for Action with Robert Taylor , Brian Donlevy and Charles Laughton , made in 1942 , Steinore was nominated for an Oscar for the first time together with his colleagues A. Arnold Gillespie and Donald Jahraus . However, the trophy went to Fred Sersen and Roger Heman senior and the film drama Crash Dive .

In 1944, Steinore worked with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, known as Dick and Doof, in the comedy film Laurel and Hardy: His Majesty's Personal Chefs . This was followed by the drama Little Girl, Big Heart with Elizabeth Taylor, who was 12 at the time . The comedy The Sailor Takes a Wife starring Robert Walker and June Allyson , which came to the cinema in December 1945 and for which Steinore was the sound engineer at the mixer, was also part of his work.

In 1946 , Steinore received another Oscar nomination for the war drama Schnellboot vor Bataan by John Ford , again with Gillespie and Jahraus as well as with RA MacDonald. However, John P. Fulton and Arthur Johns were honored for their work in the comedy film The Wonder Man .

The crime comedy The Thin Man Comes Home by Richard Thorpe , which goes back to Dashiell Hammett's novel The Thin Man , was Steinore's last film in 1945. The romantic drama Typhoon with Van Heflin , Lana Turner and Donna Reed brought Steinore along with his colleagues Gillespie, Warren Newcombe and Douglas Shearer then in 1948 finally the twice vainly hoped Oscar one.

His last two films, in which he was the sound engineer at the mixer, the film musical Singin 'In The Rain , also known as You should be my lucky star , by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly , and the romantic comedy Villa with 100 HP by Vincente Minnelli with Lucille Ball , date from 1952 and 1953.

Michael Steinore had been married to Ruth Pearl Steinore, nee Rodson, of the same age since 1926 (March 1, 1902– October 24, 1988). The couple is buried in Hollywood Memorial Cemetery. With Norman Steinore (1911-1992) he had a half-brother.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to the tombstone , secondary sources name the year 1901
  2. ↑ Michael Steinore In: IMDb - Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Married September 12, 1926, according to ancestry.com
  4. ↑ Michael Steinore and Ruth Steinore on findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Steinore, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohn, Michael (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound engineer and special effects artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1961
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States