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David Snell

David Snell
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Composer

Birthday: (69) 1897-09-10 - Deathday: 1967-03-27

Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Also known as: David L. Snell, Dave Snell,

Bio:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David L. Snell (10 September 1897, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – 27 March 1967, Glendale, California) was a pianist, conductor, composer and music director. He composed the music for over 170 shorts, series or feature films. Snell studied at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Wisconsin College and the Meyer Conservatory of Music. He formed his own orchestra, and was the musical director for several stage productions. He joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's music department in 1937, turning out music for a range of films from low-cost "B" movies to expensive features. He would spend his entire film career with MGM. He was conductor, composer, and music director for MGM for twenty-one years. The work could be high pressure. In November 1938 Franz Waxman had just five days to put together the fifty-minute score for A Christmas Carol so it could be released in time for the holiday season. Snell helped out, writing the opening and closing credit cues and half a dozen other cues based on themes provided by Waxman. Snell wrote music for many full-length films, shorts and B-movie series such as Dr. Kildare, Maisie and The Thin Man. His songs include Under The Stars, Downstream Drifter, Come Back Little Girl Of Mine and Once Over Lightly. His scores often showed first-rate craftsmanship, but his work has generally been ignored, perhaps because in most cases he chose to simply underscore the dialog as opposed to contributing complementary musical ideas. However, for the 1947 Lady in the Lake, based on the Raymond Chandler novel and set around Christmas time, Snell chose to use a choir singing a cappella, providing an austere and effective "black and white" score to accompany the stark black and white cinematography. The moody music echoed Christmas carols. David L. Snell died in 1967.

Other:

Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
Undercover Maisie
The Hidden Eye
What Do You Think? Tupapaoo
The Thin Man
Gallant Sons
The Women
Love Crazy
The Thin Man Goes Home
Mad Love
Jackass Mail
Ringside Maisie
Hollywood Goes to Town
Shadow of the Thin Man
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Third Finger, Left Hand
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Song of the Thin Man
Maisie Was a Lady
Up Goes Maisie
Nazi Agent
Alias a Gentleman
Young Dr. Kildare
Faithless
Judge Hardy's Children
Gold Rush Maisie
The Man from Down Under
Blackmail
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Out West with the Hardys
The Great Heart
Captain Spanky's Show Boat
Dangerous Partners
Accident
Sky Murder
Kid Glove Killer
Madame X
Maisie Goes to Reno
Bad Bascomb
Love Finds Andy Hardy
That Mothers Might Live
Calling Dr. Kildare
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Phantom Raiders
Hold Your Man
Lady in the Lake
Killer McCoy
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Henry Goes Arizona
What Do You Think? (Number Three)
See Here, Private Hargrove
Twice Blessed
20 Mule Team
Angel of Mercy
Twenty Years After
Radio Hams
The Story of Alfred Nobel
The Vanishing Virginian
The Man on the Rock
Dark Delusion
Party Fever
Song of Revolt
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
A Family Affair
Prophet Without Honor
Grand Central Murder
Thunder Afloat
Wyoming
Between Two Women
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
The Hardys Ride High
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Stronger Than Desire
You're Only Young Once
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Judge Hardy and Son
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
These Glamour Girls
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
The Golden Fleecing
Gentle Annie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Married Before Breakfast
Washington Melodrama
Sunday Punch
The Ghost Comes Home
Swing Fever
Nostradamus
Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power
Billy the Kid
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
My Old Town
My Old Town
We Must Have Music
The Canary Comes Across
Rationing
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
A Way in the Wilderness
The Forgotten Step
Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
It's in the Stars
Flag of Mercy
Once Over Lightly
Joaquin Murrieta
Heroes at Leisure
The Story of Dr. Jenner
Anaesthesia

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