Friedrich Hollaender

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I. Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Walter Mehring, Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked in venues like Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch ensemble at the Großes Schauspielhaus or the Wilde Bühne led by Trude Hesterberg at the Theater des Westens in Charlottenburg, where he established the Tingel-Tangel-Theater cabaret in 1931. In 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger, the couple divorced in 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Hollaender had his final breakthrough, when he wrote the film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", performed by Marlene Dietrich. He had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish descent[1] and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Academy Award nomination) and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair (on the songs, "Black Market", "Illusions" and "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nominations for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth, released in 1941, which details the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted the Nuremberg Laws. In 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich. He made a cameo appearance in Billy Wilder's film comedy One, Two, Three (1960) as a Kapellmeister. Hollaender died 1976 in Munich and is buried in the Obergiesing Ostfriedhof.

(1945) Original Music Composer

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
1961	Conductor at Grand Hotel (uncredited)	One, Two, Three 1961-12-15 Movie
1951	Self	Deutscher Filmpreis 1951-01-01 TV Show
1948	Piano Player at The Lorelei (uncredited)	A Foreign Affair 1948-08-20 Movie
1941	Accompanist (uncredited)	Manpower 1941-08-09 Movie
1931	Vorsitzender der „Weißen Weste“	The Man in Search of His Murderer 1931-02-04 Movie
1930	Pianist (uncredited)	The Blue Angel 1930-04-01 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1998	Music	The Empty Center 1998-01-01 Movie
1996	Music	The Blue Angel 1996-10-09 Movie
1981	Songs	Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued 1981-01-01 Movie
1960	Original Music Composer	The Haunted Castle 1960-12-15 Movie
1955	Original Music Composer	We're No Angels 1955-07-07 Movie
1954	Original Music Composer	Phffft 1954-11-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sabrina 1954-09-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	It Should Happen to You 1954-01-15 Movie
1953	Original Music Composer	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. 1953-06-19 Movie
	Songs	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. 1953-06-19 Movie
1952	Music	Androcles and the Lion 1952-12-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The First Time 1952-01-31 Movie
1951	Original Music Composer	Darling, How Could You! 1951-08-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	My Forbidden Past 1951-04-25 Movie
1950	Original Music Composer	Born Yesterday 1950-12-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Walk Softly, Stranger 1950-10-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Born to Be Bad 1950-09-28 Movie
	Music	Never a Dull Moment 1950-08-19 Movie
1949	Original Music Composer	A Dangerous Profession 1949-12-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bride for Sale 1949-11-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Strange Bargain 1949-11-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Adventure in Baltimore 1949-04-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Caught 1949-02-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Woman's Secret 1949-01-13 Movie
1948	Original Music Composer	A Foreign Affair 1948-08-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Wallflower 1948-06-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Berlin Express 1948-05-01 Movie
1947	Original Music Composer	Stallion Road 1947-04-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Perfect Marriage 1947-01-24 Movie
1946	Original Music Composer	The Verdict 1946-11-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Never Say Goodbye 1946-11-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Janie Gets Married 1946-06-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Bride Wore Boots 1946-06-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cinderella Jones 1946-03-09 Movie
1945	Original Music Composer	Christmas in Connecticut 1945-07-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Affairs of Susan 1945-07-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Conflict 1945-06-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Leave It to Blondie 1945-02-22 Movie
1944	Original Music Composer	Once Upon a Time 1944-06-29 Movie
1943	Music	Princess O'Rourke 1943-10-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Background to Danger 1943-07-03 Movie
1942	Original Music Composer	The Talk of the Town 1942-08-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Wings for the Eagle 1942-07-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942-01-01 Movie
1941	Original Music Composer	You Belong to Me 1941-10-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941-08-07 Movie
	Music	Million Dollar Baby 1941-05-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Footsteps in the Dark 1941-03-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Life with Henry 1941-01-23 Movie
1940	Original Music Composer	Victory 1940-12-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	South of Suez 1940-11-16 Movie
	Songs	Seven Sinners 1940-10-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Golden Gloves 1940-08-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Great McGinty 1940-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Queen of the Mob 1940-06-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Safari 1940-06-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Typhoon 1940-05-16 Movie
	Music	Too Many Husbands 1940-04-03 Movie
	Music	Remember the Night 1940-01-19 Movie
1939	Songs	Destry Rides Again 1939-11-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Disputed Passage 1939-10-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Honeymoon in Bali 1939-09-29 Movie
	Music	Night Work 1939-08-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Man About Town 1939-06-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Invitation to Happiness 1939-06-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Midnight 1939-03-24 Movie
1938	Music	Zaza 1938-12-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bluebeard's Eighth Wife 1938-03-25 Movie
1937	Original Music Composer	True Confession 1937-12-24 Movie
	Music	Angel 1937-10-29 Movie
	Songs	Artists & Models 1937-08-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Easy Living 1937-07-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Internes Can't Take Money 1937-04-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	John Meade's Woman 1937-02-26 Movie
1936	Music	The Jungle Princess 1936-11-27 Movie
	Music	Valiant Is the Word for Carrie 1936-10-06 Movie
	Music	Desire 1936-04-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Till We Meet Again 1936-04-04 Movie
	Songs	Anything Goes 1936-01-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rose of the Rancho 1936-01-09 Movie
1935	Original Music Composer	Hands Across the Table 1935-10-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Accent on Youth 1935-08-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Shanghai 1935-07-19 Movie
1933	Music	I Am Suzanne! 1933-12-25 Movie
	Music Arranger	The Only Girl 1933-06-17 Movie
1932	Original Music Composer	Tumultes 1932-04-21 Movie
	Music	The Tempest 1932-01-22 Movie
1931	Songs	In the act 1931-02-27 Movie
	Music	The Man in Search of His Murderer 1931-02-04 Movie
1930	Original Music Composer	Burglars 1930-12-15 Movie
	Music	The Great Longing 1930-08-24 Movie
	Music	The Other 1930-08-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Blue Angel 1930-04-01 Movie
1919	Music	Prinz Kuckuck 1919-09-24 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv