Hotmail
 Interviews & Clips Photos News  |
|
Arthur Freed
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  5 RatingsRate this person:
Producer, Composer (Music Score), Songwriter Born: September 9, 1894 in Charleston, SC Death: April 12, 1973 in Hollywood, CA Biography:American filmmaker "Arthur Freed" began his lifelong love affair with popular music while working as a song plugger and vaudeville performer. His first big hit as a songwriter was the plaintive ballad "I Cried For You." After playing the nightclub circuit, Freed was hired by MGM in 1928 to write songs for the studio's new musical department. Usually teamed with "Nacio Herb Brown", Freed was responsible for most of the top tunes heard in MGM's early-talkie manifest, including "Broadway Melody," "My Lucky Star," "Wedding of the Painted Doll," and the Oscar-winning "Singin' in the Rain." Even after the first cycle of musical films had passed, Freed was still churning out such classics as "Temptation."
Appointed associate producer of MGM's 1939 "The Wizard of Oz", Freed became fascinated with the concept of the "integrated" musical, wherein the songs are important to the storyline (and vice versa)... Full Biography
| ||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
