Conrad Salinger

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-08-30 (61 years old)

Deathday

1962-06-17

Place of Birth

Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Conrad Salinger

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Conrad Salinger (August 30, 1901, Brookline, Massachusetts – June 17, 1962, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He is credited with orchestrating nine productions on Broadway from 1931 to 1938, and over seventy-five motion pictures from 1931 to 1962. Film scholar Clive Hirschhorn considers him the finest orchestrator ever to work in the movies. Early in his career, film composer John Williams spent much time around Salinger. During his Broadway apprenticeship Salinger first came across Johnny Gr...

Production

1954

Brigadoon

as Orchestrator

1941

Lady Be Good

as Orchestrator

1946

The Harvey Girls

as Orchestrator

1942

The Black Swan

as Orchestrator

1951

The Unknown Man

as Original Music Composer

1940

1954

Tennessee Champ

as Original Music Composer

1952

1955

The Scarlet Coat

as Original Music Composer

1948

1942

You Were Never Lovelier

as Music Arranger

1944

Gaslight

as Orchestrator

1955

Hit the Deck

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Last Time I Saw Paris

as Original Music Composer

1958

The Big Country

as Orchestrator

1943

The Ox-Bow Incident

as Orchestrator

1947

Good News

as Original Music Composer

1955

Kismet

as Music Arranger

1957

Funny Face

as Orchestrator

1938

1955

1949

That Midnight Kiss

as Original Music Composer

1949

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

as Original Music Composer

1948

Easter Parade

as Orchestrator

1948

The Pirate

as Orchestrator

1948

The Pirate

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Pirate

as Music Arranger

1949

The Great Sinner

as Orchestrator

1950

Summer Stock

as Orchestrator

1951

An American in Paris

as Original Music Composer

1957

Silk Stockings

as Orchestrator

1950

Summer Stock

as Original Music Composer

1953

Dream Wife

as Original Music Composer

1942

Panama Hattie

as Orchestrator

1942

Panama Hattie

as Vocals

1956

Gaby

as Original Music Composer

1962

Billy Rose's Jumbo

as Orchestrator

1945

Ziegfeld Follies

as Orchestrator

1944

Main Street Today

as Orchestrator

1931

The Smiling Lieutenant

as Music Arranger

1942

This Above All

as Orchestrator

1960

The Slowest Gun in the West

as Original Music Composer

1941

Ziegfeld Girl

as Orchestrator

1959

Lonelyhearts

as Original Music Composer

1952

Singin' in the Rain

as Orchestrator

1951

An American in Paris

as Orchestrator

1953

The Band Wagon

as Orchestrator

1949

On the Town

as Orchestrator

1956

High Society

as Orchestrator

1953

Kiss Me Kate

as Orchestrator

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Orchestrator

1942

For Me and My Gal

as Orchestrator

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Original Music Composer

1946

1950

Stars in My Crown

as Orchestrator

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