Highest rated movie: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Lowest rated movie: They Shall Have Music (1939)
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Movies starring Alfred Newman have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 69%.
How to Marry a Millionaire - released in 1953 - is Alfred Newman's highest rated movie, with a score of 71% based on 318 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Alfred Newman is They Shall Have Music - released in 1939 - with a score of 67% based on 3 reviews.
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, How Green Was My Valley, The Song of Bernadette, Captain from Castile, All About Eve, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Anastasia, The Diary of Anne Frank, How The West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his final score, Airport, all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards.
Newman was also highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, and Irving Berlin. He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals.
He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood.
Alfred Newman has acted in films with Emmett Vogan, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Walter Brennan.
Alfred Newman has worked with these film directors: Jean Negulesco and Archie Mayo.
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