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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a movie house in Mechanicville in his early teens. In 1928, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a musical arranger before heading to Hollywood. He gained his first job as an orchestrator at MGM, where he worked on Hollywood Revue of 1929, and subsequently went on the road playing piano for Lupe Vélez. After completing this engagement, he joined Warner Bros., composing and/or arranging and conducting music exclusively for the studio for nearly forty years. Heindorf, along with Georgie Stoll at MGM, were jazz aficionados well known in the black entertainment community for employing minority musicians in their studio music departments. He undertook the musical direction of Judy Garland's comeback film A Star is Born (1954) and made a cameo appearance as himself in the premiere party sequence where Jack Carson's character congratulates him on a great score. Among Heindorf's other screen credits are 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, The Great Lie, Knute Rockne All American, Kings Row, Night and Day, Tea for Two, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Jazz Singer, No Time for Sergeants, The Helen Morgan Story, Marjorie Morningstar, Damn Yankees, Auntie Mame, Finian's Rainbow, and his final musical for Jack L. Warner, 1776. Between 1943 and 1969 he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, 17 nominations for Best Score and 1 nomination for Best Song. Heindorf won three, in the category of Best Score of a Musical, for Yankee Doodle Dandy, This is the Army, and The Music Man. His wins for the former two films made him the first to accomplish consecutive wins in a musical category. Heindorf died in Tarzana, California, aged 71, and reputedly was buried with his favorite conducting baton.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1908-08-25
- event Death Date 1980-02-03
- school Known for: Sound
- star Popularity: 4.9
- info Birth Place Haverstraw, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Ray Heindorf
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I'll See You in My Dreams
1951-12-06
7.1
A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
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The Song Writers' Revue
1929-11-27
6
The Screen Director
1951-03-12
5.9
It's a Great Feeling
1949-08-01
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5.9
The Male Animal
1942-03-12
5.9
It's a Great Feeling
1949-08-01
5.9
Up Periscope
1959-03-04
5.9
A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
5.9
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953-03-26
5.9
Lucky Me
1954-04-09
5.9
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951-12-06
5.9
April in Paris
1952-12-24
5.9
The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
5.9
The Sea Wolf
1941-03-21
5.9
Love and Learn
1947-05-02
5.9
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939-08-26
5.9
Arrowsmith
1931-12-07
5.9
Blowing Wild
1953-10-07
5.9
April Showers
1948-03-27
5.9
Hollywood Hotel
1938-01-15
5.9
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1971-04-02
5.9
The Big Trees
1952-02-05
5.9
The Great Lie
1941-04-05
5.9
Come Fill the Cup
1951-10-24
5.9
Come Fill the Cup
1951-10-24
5.9
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951-09-19
5.9
Dangerous
1935-12-25
5.9
The Strawberry Blonde
1941-02-21
5.9
Men Are Such Fools
1938-06-15
5.9
Boy Meets Girl
1938-08-27
5.9
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1959-11-11
5.9
A Lost Lady
1934-09-29
5.9
I Confess
1953-02-13
5.9
Strangers on a Train
1951-06-27
5.9
Big City Blues
1932-09-18
5.9
Desirable
1934-09-08
5.9
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942-05-29
5.9
Miracle in the Rain
1956-03-31
5.9
Alibi Ike
1935-06-15
5.9
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933-02-03
5.9
Gentleman Jim
1942-11-14
5.9
Romance on the High Seas
1948-06-25
5.9
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950-04-29
5.9
Wonder Man
1945-06-08
5.9
Wonder Man
1945-06-08
5.9
Where's Charley?
1952-05-20
5.9
Flirtation Walk
1934-12-01
5.9
Crooner
1932-08-20
5.9
Three Sailors and a Girl
1953-11-23
5.9
Lullaby of Broadway
1951-03-26
5.9
The West Point Story
1950-11-25
5.9
Fashions of 1934
1934-02-14
5.9
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932-02-03
5.9
The Helen Morgan Story
1957-10-02
5.9
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955-07-31
5.9
Young at Heart
1954-12-01
5.9
Sincerely Yours
1955-11-05
5.9
Rhapsody in Blue
1945-06-27
5.9
1776
1972-11-09
5.9
1776
1972-11-09
5.9
Backfire
1950-01-26
5.9
It's a Great Feeling
1949-08-01
5.9
Gold Diggers in Paris
1938-06-11
5.9
Adventures of Don Juan
1948-12-24
5.9
Storm Warning
1951-02-10
5.9
Ready, Willing and Able
1937-03-06
5.9
Honeymoon for Three
1941-01-18
5.9
Stage Struck
1936-09-12
5.9
My Wild Irish Rose
1947-12-24
5.9
The West Point Story
1950-11-25
5.9
Up in Arms
1944-02-17
5.9
Up in Arms
1944-02-17
5.9
Sweet Music
1935-02-23
5.9
Cinderella Jones
1946-03-09
5.9
Four Mothers
1941-01-04
5.9
Four Wives
1939-12-22
5.9
Young Man with a Horn
1950-03-01
5.9
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943-09-25
5.9
Colleen
1936-03-21
5.9
Footlight Parade
1933-10-21
5.9
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935-03-15
5.9
The Damned Don't Cry
1950-05-13
5.9
Secrets
1933-03-16
5.9
The Young Philadelphians
1959-05-21
5.9
Broadway Gondolier
1935-07-27
5.9
Murder in the Clouds
1934-12-15
5.9
Flight from Destiny
1941-02-08
5.9
The Kennel Murder Case
1933-10-28
5.9
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934-08-15
5.9
Finian's Rainbow
1968-10-09
5.9
Three on a Match
1932-10-29
5.9
Serenade
1956-03-23
5.9
Serenade
1956-03-23
5.9
Go Into Your Dance
1935-04-20
5.9
The Hard Way
1943-01-13
5.9
Central Park
1932-12-10
5.9
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951-05-19
5.9
Romance on the High Seas
1948-06-25
5.9
My Love Came Back
1940-07-13
5.9
The Singing Kid
1936-04-10
5.9
A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
5.9
Calamity Jane
1953-11-04
5.9
Affectionately Yours
1941-05-10
5.9
Tea for Two
1950-09-01
5.9
Daughters Courageous
1939-06-23
5.9
Castle on the Hudson
1940-02-17
5.9
Knute Rockne All American
1940-10-05
5.9
Adam-12
1968-09-21