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Frank Skinner (December 31, 1897 – October 9, 1968) was an American film composer and arranger. Skinner was born in Meredosia, Illinois. A graduate of the Chicago Musical College (now known as the Chicago Conservatory of Music), 16-year-old Frank found employment in vaudeville and began playing in local areas with his brother Carl Skinner of Meredosia Illinois on drums. They were billed as the Skinner Brothers dance band. From there they began playing on the steamboats that went up and down the Illinois River. It was during this time that he began writing and arranging music for dance bands. This work brought him to New York, where from 1925 to 1935 he arranged about 2000 popular songs for Robbins Publishing. By the time he left Manhattan for Hollywood, he had written two books on arranging for dance bands. After a short period at MGM, working on musical settings for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Skinner was hired by Universal Studios. Over the course of his 30 years there, he composed music for more than 200 films. Although he continued to work on musicals, he quickly mastered the art of dramatic scores, eventually earning five Academy Award nominations (1938–43). He died in Beverly Hills, California, leaving behind his wife Dolly Repine Skinner. His distinctive approach to scoring horror films, such as Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Wolf Man (1941), has been characterized as a ‘passion for chromatic lines … mirrored contours … [and] restrained, yet ominously mythical orchestrations’ (Marcello). He gained new recognition in the 1950s for his lush romantic scores, including those for such Douglas Sirk films as Magnificent Obsession (1954) and Written on the Wind (1956). Despite many changes in the film industry, his book Underscore (1950) has survived as an excellent introduction to film music composition. In 2014, Dallas pre-swing orchestra, The Singapore Slingers released a fifteen-track CD homage to Skinner's arrangements.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1897-12-31
- event Death Date 1968-10-08
- school Known for: Sound
- star Popularity: 2.7
- info Birth Place Meredosia, Illinois, USA
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1960-10-13
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1940-01-12
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1949-05-20
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1942-02-13
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1954-03-30
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1955-11-02
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1956-03-10
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1944-12-22
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1957-03-14
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1953-05-08
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1952-07-01
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1949-09-05
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1939-03-24
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1953-08-07
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1947-05-01
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1953-09-01
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1955-06-16
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1951-12-01
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Louisa
1950-05-31
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1951-11-01
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1949-11-01
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1967-05-01
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1950-12-04
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1948-12-06
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1949-09-01
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1946-07-17
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1941-12-12
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1943-07-16
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1939-11-10
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1947-02-02
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1951-08-01
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1942-12-25
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1941-02-21
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1950-08-05
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1951-07-26
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1952-08-13
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1944-08-16
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1948-12-27
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1955-02-02
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1941-08-08
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1945-02-02
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1958-09-01
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1947-10-08
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1943-03-10
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1954-08-07
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1941-07-01
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1956-08-16
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1950-06-08
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1955-01-21
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1957-06-04
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1956-10-04
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1950-09-20
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1950-09-20
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1955-07-13
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1938-06-03
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1950-07-12
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1957-06-14
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1942-06-05
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1943-03-01
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1940-02-29
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1957-10-11
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1944-12-01
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1942-12-11
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1952-09-05
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1942-12-25
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1954-11-24
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1958-11-30
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1941-03-28
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1949-05-26
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1952-10-09
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1957-04-02
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1955-12-25
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1942-06-26
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1955-05-13
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1939-09-22
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1949-08-24
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1944-01-28
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1958-09-01
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1953-12-02
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1959-06-26
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1948-09-01
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1961-10-11
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1950-08-05
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1955-07-20
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1940-05-31
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Keep 'Em Flying
1941-11-27
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All by Myself
1943-06-11
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1942-12-18
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1941-10-10
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1939-01-13
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1948-06-15
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1945-06-25
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Captive Wild Woman
1943-06-04
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1942-06-16
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Eyes of the Underworld
1942-10-02
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Hired Wife
1940-09-13
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Nice Girl?
1941-02-21
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1954-02-18
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1941-02-07
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Hazard
1948-05-28
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Between Us Girls
1942-09-04
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The Appaloosa
1966-09-15
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Interlude
1957-10-30
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Battle Hymn
1957-02-14
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942-09-18
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Madame X
1966-03-03
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One Way Street
1950-04-01
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Chief Crazy Horse
1955-04-01
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The Sun Never Sets
1939-05-31
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The Exile
1947-10-17
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The Rage of Paris
1938-06-09
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Ex-Champ
1939-05-11
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Reckless Age
1944-08-01
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South of Dixie
1944-06-23
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Green Hell
1940-01-26
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Man of a Thousand Faces
1957-08-15
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Destry
1954-12-01
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One Night in the Tropics
1940-11-15
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One Night in the Tropics
1940-11-15
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1940-08-02
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One Hour To Live
1939-11-10
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Her Adventurous Night
1946-06-05
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Tap Roots
1948-08-25
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937-09-05
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Appointment for Love
1941-10-31
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Kitten with a Whip
1964-11-04
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Jungle Woman
1944-06-01
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The Dark Mirror
1946-10-17
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The House of Fear
1939-06-30
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Gung Ho!
1943-12-20
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The Big Guy
1939-12-22
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The Mummy's Ghost
1944-07-07
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Comanche Territory
1950-05-01
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My Little Chickadee
1940-02-09
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Pillow of Death
1945-12-14
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Strange Confession
1945-10-05
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Horizons West
1952-10-11
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Bend of the River
1952-01-23
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Badlands of Dakota
1941-09-15
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Lady in a Jam
1942-06-19
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Hollywood Story
1951-06-01