Artist Biography Available in: Adolph Deutsch was a composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his complementary score for Oklahoma! (1955), and for his conducting of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). The London native was also nominated for The Band Wagon (1953) and the 1951 film version of Show Boat for his conducting. For Broadway and Hollywood he conducted, composed and arranged, but did not write songs, nor did he write songs for the Broadway shows he worked on. In addition to his music for westerns and his conducting for musical films, Deutsch composed for "noir" films, including The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Nobody Lives Forever (1946) and the Billy Wilder comedies The Apartment (1960) and Some Like It Hot (1959). Deutsch began his career on Broadway in the 1920s and 1930s before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s. For Broadway, he orchestrated Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer and George and Ira Gershwin's Pardon My English.
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