Great Performances Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound (Season 24, Episode 3)
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TV Episode | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

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Great Performances

Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound (Season 24, Episode 3)

TV-G

TV Episode | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Host/conductor Mauceri replicates a symphony orchestra playing to film images to produce the film's score, and talks with historians, technicians and David Raksin about the process during the 30's and 40's.

Director

Joshua Waletzky

Producer

Margaret Smilow (producer)

Cinematographers

Laurent Chevallier | Carlo Varini

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Edit Released

Updated Nov 8, 1995

Release date

Nov 8, 1995 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 29 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 31 wins & 119 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
13 cast members

Name	Known for
John Mauceri Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Oklahoma! (2011)
David Raksin Self Self See fewer	Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Alfred Newman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The King and I (1956)
Max Steiner Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Gone with the Wind (1939)
Dimitri Tiomkin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	High Noon (1952)
Franz Waxman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Ned Comstock Self Self See fewer	Ziegfeld on Film (2004)
Glynne Jones Self Self See fewer	Maxi Priest: Goodbye to Love Again (1988)
Milton Lustig Self - interviewed Self - interviewed See fewer	The Final Countdown (1980)
David Neumeyer Self - interviewed Self - interviewed See fewer	Great Performances (1971)
Eleanor Slatkin Self - interviewed (as Eleanor Aller Slatkin) Self - interviewed (as Eleanor Aller Slatkin) See fewer	Deception (1946)
Fred Steiner Self - interviewed Self - interviewed See fewer	The Color Purple (1985)