Johnny Green

Johnny Green

Nascimento : 1908-10-10, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1989-05-15

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Waldo Green (October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989) was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earliest, "Body and Soul" from the revue Three's A Crowd. Green won four Academy Awards for his film scores and a fifth for producing a short musical film, and he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. He was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Perfil

Johnny Green

Filmes

The Ballad of Billie Blue
Johnny Green
An emotionally touching story of a man who's life was in seeming disrepair, yet God turned it into one of redemption and atonement.
Mean Justice
Original Music Composer
Moreno (Bronson) is a tough ranch hand on the vast half million acre Garret Ranch. Rich in timber, gas, cattle and oil, the ranch is a major employer of rough rugged cowboys in northern New Mexico. Unexpectedly, Moreno has been accused , and tried for the murder of the daughter of the Garret ranch's popular foreman (Denver Pyle). As luck turns against the Garret ranch, each man endures struggles against nature, competitors, and each other in order to keep the operation profitable.
A Noite dos Desesperados
Original Music Composer
Durante a Grande Depressão as vidas de um grupo heterogêneo de competidores se entrelaçam numa maratona de dança desumana e esgotante. Gloria é uma jovem mulher. Ela parece mais velha do que é e sente que sua vida não tem mais jeito, depois de ter sido enganada e traída muitas vezes no passado. Enquanto se recupera de uma tentativa de suicídio, tem a ideia fixa de que uma revista de cinema para Hollywood vai torná-la uma atriz. Robert é um morador de Hollywood desesperado tentando se tornar diretor. Robert e Gloria se encontram e decidem entrar na maratona de dança, uma das manias dos anos trinta. A dança esgotante cobra seu pedágio no espírito já enfraquecido da Gloria, e ela diz ao Robert que estaria melhor morta, que sua vida não tem mais jeito - o tempo todo agindo com crueldade e amargura, alienando as pessoas ao seu redor, tentando convencê-lo a atirar a deixando livre de sua miséria. Afinal de contas, eles atiram cavalos, não é mesmo? (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Oliver!
Orchestrator
Adaptação musical da obra Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, um conto clássico de um órfão que foge do lugar onde trabalha e se junta com um grupo de meninos comandados por Dodger Artful e é treinado para ser um pickpockets, um batedor de carteiras, pelo mestre ladrão Fagin.
Oliver!
Conductor
Adaptação musical da obra Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, um conto clássico de um órfão que foge do lugar onde trabalha e se junta com um grupo de meninos comandados por Dodger Artful e é treinado para ser um pickpockets, um batedor de carteiras, pelo mestre ladrão Fagin.
Oliver!
Music Arranger
Adaptação musical da obra Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, um conto clássico de um órfão que foge do lugar onde trabalha e se junta com um grupo de meninos comandados por Dodger Artful e é treinado para ser um pickpockets, um batedor de carteiras, pelo mestre ladrão Fagin.
Oliver!
Music Supervisor
Adaptação musical da obra Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, um conto clássico de um órfão que foge do lugar onde trabalha e se junta com um grupo de meninos comandados por Dodger Artful e é treinado para ser um pickpockets, um batedor de carteiras, pelo mestre ladrão Fagin.
Alvarez Kelly
Original Music Composer
O educado texano criador de gado Alvarez Kelly (William Holden) agora vive no México e tem pouco interesse na Guerra Civil, exceto para ganhar algum dinheiro. Mas depois de uma longa viagem para entregar gado para a União, ele é sequestrado pelo coronel confederado Tom Rossiter (Richard Widmark). Com as tropas e os civis famintos e cercados em Richmond pelo exército da União, o coronel pretende, de uma forma ou de outra, convencer Kelly a ajudar a roubar o rebanho e levá-lo para a cidade. O dinheiro confederado não tem nenhum valor, de modo que o Coronel recorre a outros meios, com resultados inesperados.
Cinderella
Orchestrator
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performed in their original settings. Added to the Rogers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific but not used.
Cinderella
Conductor
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performed in their original settings. Added to the Rogers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific but not used.
O Crime É Homicídio
Original Music Composer
A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of murder that he has already confessed to. He asks a retired, legendary lawyer for help.
Amor, Sublime Amor
Music Supervisor
No lado oeste de Nova York, à sombra dos arranha-céus, ficam os guetos de imigrantes e classes menos favorecidas. Duas gangues, os Sharks, de porto-riquenhos, e os Jets, de brancos de origem anglo-saxônica, disputam a área, seguindo um código próprio de guerra e honra. Tony (Richard Beymer), antigo líder dos Jets, se apaixona por Maria (Natalie Wood), irmã do líder dos Sharks, e tem seu amor correspondido. A paixão dos dois fere princípios em ambos os lados, acirrando ainda mais a disputa.
Amor, Sublime Amor
Conductor
No lado oeste de Nova York, à sombra dos arranha-céus, ficam os guetos de imigrantes e classes menos favorecidas. Duas gangues, os Sharks, de porto-riquenhos, e os Jets, de brancos de origem anglo-saxônica, disputam a área, seguindo um código próprio de guerra e honra. Tony (Richard Beymer), antigo líder dos Jets, se apaixona por Maria (Natalie Wood), irmã do líder dos Sharks, e tem seu amor correspondido. A paixão dos dois fere princípios em ambos os lados, acirrando ainda mais a disputa.
Pepe
Original Music Composer
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
A Árvore da Vida
Original Music Composer
Em Raintree, Indiana, 1959, John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) é um jovem que sonha ser escritor. Ele está apaixonado por Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint), que conhece há vários anos e é correspondido. Influenciado por seu professor, Jerusalem Webster Stiles (Nigel Patrick), John sonha em encontrar a mítica árvore da vida. Mas sua vida muda ao conhecer Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor), uma bela e rica moça de Nova Orleans, com quem se envolve. Shawnessy ignorava que ela tinha um desequilíbrio emocional e era ardilosa, tanto que mente para John dizendo que estava grávida, para afastar de vez Nell e se casar com ele, o que acaba acontecendo. Quando eclode a Guerra da Secessão, ele que era contra a escravidão, ao contrário de Susanna, se alista no exército da União. Paralelamente sua mulher entra em depressão e, como a mãe dela morreu louca em um hospício, parece que ela herdou pelo menos parte desta loucura.
Alta Sociedade
Music Arranger
Os amigos da infância Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) e C.K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby) se casaram e se divorciaram muito rapidamente. Agora, Tracy está prestes a se casar de novo, desta vez com um esperto empresário alpinista social. Bing ainda a ama. A revista Spy chantageia a família da Grace ameaçando revelar as façanhas do pai playboy se não for permitida fazer a cobertura jornalística do casamento.
Alta Sociedade
Music Supervisor
Os amigos da infância Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) e C.K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby) se casaram e se divorciaram muito rapidamente. Agora, Tracy está prestes a se casar de novo, desta vez com um esperto empresário alpinista social. Bing ainda a ama. A revista Spy chantageia a família da Grace ameaçando revelar as façanhas do pai playboy se não for permitida fazer a cobertura jornalística do casamento.
Marcado Pela Sarjeta
Music Director
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Music Supervisor
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
Paixões Sem Freios
Conductor
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
La Gazza Ladra Overture
Conductor
In this short, Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the overture to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra".
La Gazza Ladra Overture
Himself - Conductor
In this short, Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the overture to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra".
A Lenda dos Beijos Perdidos
Music Director
Dois americanos em uma viagem de caça pela Escócia se perdem. Acabam chegando numa pequena aldeia, que não está no mapa, chamada Brigadoon, na qual as pessoas abrigam um segredo misterioso, e se comportam como se ainda estivessem vivendo duzentos anos no passado.
Strauss Fantasy
Director
Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a medley of waltzes and other familiar pieces by three members of the Strauss family.
Strauss Fantasy
Music Arranger
Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a medley of waltzes and other familiar pieces by three members of the Strauss family.
Strauss Fantasy
Producer
Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a medley of waltzes and other familiar pieces by three members of the Strauss family.
Strauss Fantasy
Himself as Conductor
Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a medley of waltzes and other familiar pieces by three members of the Strauss family.
M-G-M Jubilee Overture
Conductor
This short was released as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 30th anniversary. The M-G-M Symphony Orchestra, led by Johnny Green, plays a medley of eleven well-known songs used in some of the studio's best-known musicals.
M-G-M Jubilee Overture
Himself
This short was released as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 30th anniversary. The M-G-M Symphony Orchestra, led by Johnny Green, plays a medley of eleven well-known songs used in some of the studio's best-known musicals.
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Director
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor [also known as The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture] is a 1953 American short musical film produced by Johnny Green. The film consists of the MGM Symphony Orchestra playing the Overture to Otto Nicolai's opera The Merry Wives of Windsor, also conducted by Johnny Green. It won an Oscar in 1954 for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Producer
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor [also known as The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture] is a 1953 American short musical film produced by Johnny Green. The film consists of the MGM Symphony Orchestra playing the Overture to Otto Nicolai's opera The Merry Wives of Windsor, also conducted by Johnny Green. It won an Oscar in 1954 for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Johnny Green
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor [also known as The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture] is a 1953 American short musical film produced by Johnny Green. The film consists of the MGM Symphony Orchestra playing the Overture to Otto Nicolai's opera The Merry Wives of Windsor, also conducted by Johnny Green. It won an Oscar in 1954 for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
Capriccio Italien
Himself - Conductor
Johnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien".
Tu És Minha Paixão
Original Music Composer
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
Too Young to Kiss
Music Director
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
Sinfonia de Paris
Music Director
O veterano da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Jerry, vive em Paris tentando se firmar como pintor. Ele conhece a milionária Milo que o apoia e tenta ajudá-lo a subir na carreira, mesmo estando mais interessada em Jerry do que na sua arte. Mas ele acaba se apaixonando por Lise que está noiva de Henri, por quem ela tem uma dívida de gratidão por ter salvado sua família e ela durante a guerra.
O Grande Caruso
Music
Traça vagamente a vida do tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). Ele ama Musetta, em sua cidade natal, Nápoles, e depois Dorothy, filha de um dos patronos do Metropolitan Opera. Caruso é inaceitável para os pais de ambas as mulheres: para uma, porque canta; para Dorothy, porque ele é um camponês. Para os patrícios de Nova York, Caruso é baixo, peito largo, barulhento, emotivo, não refinado. Sua apreciação vem lentamente. O filme retrata o lamento de Caruso de que "o homem não tem voz, a voz tem o homem": ele não pode estar nos lugares que quer, porque deve estar em outro lugar cantando, inclusive no dia da morte de sua mãe. Ao longo do filme, Mario Lanza e estrelas do Met cantam, inclusive com o 'menino' Luciano Pavarotti.
É Proibido Amar
Music Director
A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. The both will have their clandestine romance interfered with by their changing circumstances.
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Music
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").
Inspetor Geral
Music Director
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Inspetor Geral
Original Music Composer
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Desfile de Páscoa
Music Director
Um artista de nightclub contrata uma ingênua Menina do Coro para ser sua nova parceira de dança para deixar sua ex-parceira ciumenta e para provar que ele pode transformar qualquer parceira em uma estrela. Na véspera da Páscoa em 1911, Don Hewes é surpreendido quando sua parceira de dança (e também sua paixão) Nadine Hale se recusa a renovar o contrato com ele. Para provar que Nadine não é importante para ele, Don contrata uma ingênua Menina do Coro, Hannah Brown, prometendo fazer dela uma estrela a tempo para o desfile de Páscoa do próximo ano. Cheio de Melodia! Cheio de Amor!
As Delícias da Vida
Original Music Composer
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Something in the Wind
Original Music Composer
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
The Sailor Takes a Wife
Music
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. However, when the sailor is notified that he has been reclassified as 4-F (unfit for service) by the Navy and then discharged, he and his new wife realize that, having to set up house before they expected to, they actually know very little about each other. Complications ensue.
Aqui Começa a Vida
Original Music Composer
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Escola de Sereias
Music Director
O compositor de canções românticas Steve (Red Skelton) ingressa numa faculdade feminina para tentar reconquistar sua esposa Caroline (Esther Williams), uma treinadora de natação. A partir daí começam muitas confusões, risadas garantidas e memoráveis balés aquáticos. Skelton em ótima forma e Esther Williams abalando os corações com seu corpo escultural, sem contar com inúmeras beldades como alunas da bela Williams. Uma comédia deliciosa.
Escola de Sereias
Music
O compositor de canções românticas Steve (Red Skelton) ingressa numa faculdade feminina para tentar reconquistar sua esposa Caroline (Esther Williams), uma treinadora de natação. A partir daí começam muitas confusões, risadas garantidas e memoráveis balés aquáticos. Skelton em ótima forma e Esther Williams abalando os corações com seu corpo escultural, sem contar com inúmeras beldades como alunas da bela Williams. Uma comédia deliciosa.
Broadway Rhythm
Original Music Composer
Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
Love on a Budget
Boy
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Start Cheering
Johnny Green
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Radio Rhapsody
Himself
In this short, introduced by Harry von Zell, Johnny Green and His Orchestra favour us with "Dinah," "Swanee River" and "Rhythm Is Our Business" amongst other selections.
Melody Magic
Music
Here is Johnny Green conducting his lush dance orchestra in a medley of four of his own popular compositions. His band singer Marjory Logan and The Tune Twisters (male trio) sing two more Green songs (both with lyrics by James Dyrenforth): "What Now" and "Not Bad." Green chastises his second pianist (and arranger), Dave Terry, for infringing on Green's musical territory. With the aid of trick photography, Green, with a wave of his baton, reduces the orchestra to miniature size, then Dave Terry does the same to Green. The film closes with an intricate version of "Sweet Sue-Just You"(Victor Young-Will Harris), featuring Green's saxophone section.
Melody Magic
Himself
Here is Johnny Green conducting his lush dance orchestra in a medley of four of his own popular compositions. His band singer Marjory Logan and The Tune Twisters (male trio) sing two more Green songs (both with lyrics by James Dyrenforth): "What Now" and "Not Bad." Green chastises his second pianist (and arranger), Dave Terry, for infringing on Green's musical territory. With the aid of trick photography, Green, with a wave of his baton, reduces the orchestra to miniature size, then Dave Terry does the same to Green. The film closes with an intricate version of "Sweet Sue-Just You"(Victor Young-Will Harris), featuring Green's saxophone section.
Song Shopping
Johnny Green
Fleischer Studios 'Screen Song' with Ethel Merman singing the songs.
The Misleading Lady
Original Music Composer
A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare.
Wayward
Original Music Composer
Story of mother's antagonism to her son's wife. From the novel "Wild Beauty" by Matsel Farnham.
Secrets of a Secretary
Original Music Composer
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
The Smiling Lieutenant
Music Arranger
A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn for girlfriend, Franzi, is accidentally intercepted -- and misread -- by the visiting Princess Anna. As a result, the soldier has no choice but to marry the royal lady and move with her to the neighboring kingdom of Flausenthurm. His girlfriend follows to continue the romance and, subversively, give Princess Anna tips on how to keep her husband satisfied.
The Girl Habit
Music
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
Honor Among Lovers
Music Arranger
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
Honor Among Lovers
Original Music Composer
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
The Sap from Syracuse
Original Music Composer
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
Um Romance em Veneza
Music Arranger
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.