Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since they formed a producing team in 1940, lank, solemn, ex-pressagent William Hoy Pine, 49, and sleek, peppery, ex-pressagent William Carroll Thomas, 41, have whipped up 30 musicals and melodramas for the nation's double bills. None has come close to an Oscar, but all have been good business...
Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...
Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...
...teach his "scientific method" of music composition, he hit it just right. The harassed jazz composers and arrangers on the frenzied production lines of Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and the radio studios were looking for somebody just like him. George Gershwin became a steady customer; so did his buddy, Oscar Levant. Soon many able musicians (Jesse Crawford, Benny Goodman, Vernon Duke) were juggling rhythms and harmonies into endless combinations. Long-haired music schools eschewed Schillinger and all his works: their students had plenty of time to court the muse...
Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...