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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I. Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Walter Mehring, Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked in venues like Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch ensemble at the Großes Schauspielhaus or the Wilde Bühne led by Trude Hesterberg at the Theater des Westens in Charlottenburg, where he established the Tingel-Tangel-Theater cabaret in 1931. In 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger, the couple divorced in 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Hollaender had his final breakthrough, when he wrote the film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", performed by Marlene Dietrich. He had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish descent[1] and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Academy Award nomination) and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair (on the songs, "Black Market", "Illusions" and "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nominations for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth, released in 1941, which details the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted the Nuremberg Laws. In 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich. He made a cameo appearance in Billy Wilder's film comedy One, Two, Three (1960) as a Kapellmeister. Hollaender died 1976 in Munich and is buried in the Obergiesing Ostfriedhof.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1896-10-18
- event Death Date 1976-01-18
- school Known for: Sound
- star Popularity: 3
- info Birth Place London, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Friedrich Hollaender
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Manpower
1941-08-09
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A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20
6.5
The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931-02-04
7.5
One, Two, Three
1961-12-15
7.4
The Blue Angel
1930-04-01
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Deutscher Filmpreis
1951-01-01
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The Blue Angel
1930-04-01
6
The Jungle Princess
1936-11-27
6
Leave It to Blondie
1945-02-22
6
The Missing Juror
1944-11-16
6
Golden Gloves
1940-08-02
6
We're No Angels
1955-07-07
6
Sabrina
1954-09-10
6
The Tempest
1932-01-22
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Background to Danger
1943-07-03
6
Christmas in Connecticut
1945-07-27
6
The Verdict
1946-11-23
6
Seven Sinners
1940-10-25
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Strange Bargain
1949-11-05
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The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
6
Princess O'Rourke
1943-10-23
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Berlin Express
1948-05-01
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Born to Be Bad
1950-09-28
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Caught
1949-02-17
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941-08-07
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The Haunted Castle
1960-12-15
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A Dangerous Profession
1949-12-10
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Invitation to Happiness
1939-06-07
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Conflict
1945-06-15
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A Woman's Secret
1949-01-13
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You Belong to Me
1941-10-22
6
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950-10-14
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My Forbidden Past
1951-04-25
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Honeymoon in Bali
1939-09-29
6
The Affairs of Susan
1945-07-08
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Typhoon
1940-05-16
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The Only Girl
1933-02-22
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Till We Meet Again
1936-04-04
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John Meade's Woman
1937-02-26
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Man About Town
1939-06-29
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Life with Henry
1941-01-23
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Safari
1940-06-14
6
Desire
1936-04-11
6
I Am Suzanne!
1933-12-25
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The Empty Center
1998-01-01
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Angel
1937-10-29
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Million Dollar Baby
1941-05-31
6
South of Suez
1940-11-16
6
Once Upon a Time
1944-06-29
6
Cinderella Jones
1946-03-09
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Zaza
1938-12-29
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936-10-06
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Adventure in Baltimore
1949-04-19
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941-12-24
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It Should Happen to You
1954-01-15
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Easy Living
1937-07-16
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The First Time
1952-01-31
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Internes Can't Take Money
1937-04-16
6
Wings for the Eagle
1942-07-18
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The Bride Wore Boots
1946-06-05
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Too Many Husbands
1940-04-03
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Destry Rides Again
1939-11-30
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The Only Girl
1933-06-17
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The Only Girl
1933-06-17
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Bride for Sale
1949-11-12
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Never Say Goodbye
1946-11-09
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The Other
1930-08-11
6
Shanghai
1935-07-19
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Tumultes
1932-04-21
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938-03-25
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Midnight
1939-03-24
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The Perfect Marriage
1947-01-24
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Darling, How Could You!
1951-08-08
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A Son Comes Home
1936-07-31
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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
1953-06-19
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Accent on Youth
1935-08-23
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Phffft
1954-11-10
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A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20
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Anything Goes
1936-01-24
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In the act
1931-02-27
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Born Yesterday
1950-12-26
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Stallion Road
1947-04-12
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Queen of the Mob
1940-06-28
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Janie Gets Married
1946-06-22
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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
1953-06-19
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Hands Across the Table
1935-10-18
6
Burglars
1930-12-15
6
Murder with Pictures
1936-09-24
6
The Blue Angel
1996-10-09
6
Androcles and the Lion
1952-12-01
6
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
1981-01-01
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Artists & Models
1937-08-04
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The Wife's Crusade
1926-01-02
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Rose of the Rancho
1936-01-09
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Remember the Night
1940-01-19
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Victory
1940-12-21
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Disputed Passage
1939-10-25
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Murder in the Big House
1942-04-11
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My Name Is Julia Ross
1945-11-08
6
True Confession
1937-12-24
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Night Work
1939-08-04
6
Prinz Kuckuck
1919-09-24
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Wallflower
1948-06-13
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The Talk of the Town
1942-08-20
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The Great Longing
1930-08-24
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The Chance of a Lifetime
1943-10-26
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Footsteps in the Dark
1941-03-08
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The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931-02-04
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Never a Dull Moment
1950-08-19