Friedrich Hollaender

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1896-10-18

Deathday 1976-01-18 (79 years old)

Place of Birth London, UK

Also Known As Frederick Hollander, Friedrich Holländer

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.

Known For

Sound

1998
1996
1960
The Haunted Castle

as Original Music Composer

1955
We're No Angels

as Original Music Composer

1954
Sabrina

as Original Music Composer

1954
It Should Happen to You

as Original Music Composer

1954
Phffft

as Original Music Composer

1953
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

as Original Music Composer

1952
The First Time

as Original Music Composer

1952
Androcles and the Lion

as Original Music Composer

1951
My Forbidden Past

as Original Music Composer

1951
Darling, How Could You!

as Original Music Composer

1950
Born to Be Bad

as Original Music Composer

1950
Walk Softly, Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1950
Born Yesterday

as Original Music Composer

1950
1949
Strange Bargain

as Original Music Composer

1949
Caught

as Original Music Composer

1949
A Dangerous Profession

as Original Music Composer

1949
A Woman's Secret

as Original Music Composer

1949
Adventure in Baltimore

as Original Music Composer

1949
Bride for Sale

as Original Music Composer

1948
Berlin Express

as Original Music Composer

1948
A Foreign Affair

as Original Music Composer

1948
Wallflower

as Original Music Composer

1947
The Perfect Marriage

as Original Music Composer

1947
Stallion Road

as Original Music Composer

1946
The Verdict

as Original Music Composer

1946
Cinderella Jones

as Original Music Composer

1946
The Bride Wore Boots

as Original Music Composer

1946
Never Say Goodbye

as Original Music Composer

1946
Janie Gets Married

as Original Music Composer

1945
Leave It to Blondie

as Original Music Composer

1945
Christmas in Connecticut

as Original Music Composer

1945
Conflict

as Original Music Composer

1945
The Affairs of Susan

as Original Music Composer

1944
Once Upon a Time

as Original Music Composer

1943
Background to Danger

as Original Music Composer

1943
1942
Wings for the Eagle

as Original Music Composer

1942
Murder in the Big House

as Original Music Composer

1942
The Talk of the Town

as Original Music Composer

1941
Here Comes Mr. Jordan

as Original Music Composer

1941
You Belong to Me

as Original Music Composer

1941
Life with Henry

as Original Music Composer

1941
1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner

as Original Music Composer

1941
Footsteps in the Dark

as Original Music Composer

1940
Golden Gloves

as Original Music Composer

1940
Seven Sinners

as Songs

1940
The Great McGinty

as Original Music Composer

1940
Typhoon

as Original Music Composer

1940
Safari

as Original Music Composer

1940
South of Suez

as Original Music Composer

1940
1940
Queen of the Mob

as Original Music Composer

1940
Remember the Night

as Original Music Composer

1940
Victory

as Original Music Composer

1939
Invitation to Happiness

as Original Music Composer

1939
Honeymoon in Bali

as Original Music Composer

1939
Man About Town

as Original Music Composer

1939
1939
Midnight

as Original Music Composer

1939
Disputed Passage

as Original Music Composer

1939
Night Work

as Music

1938
Zaza

as Music

1938
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

as Original Music Composer

1937
John Meade's Woman

as Original Music Composer

1937
Angel

as Music

1937
Easy Living

as Original Music Composer

1937
Internes Can't Take Money

as Original Music Composer

1937
1937
True Confession

as Original Music Composer

1936
1936
Till We Meet Again

as Original Music Composer

1936
Desire

as Music

1936
1936
Anything Goes

as Songs

1936
Murder with Pictures

as Original Music Composer

1936
Rose of the Rancho

as Original Music Composer

1935
Shanghai

as Original Music Composer

1935
Accent on Youth

as Original Music Composer

1935
Hands Across the Table

as Original Music Composer

1933
I Am Suzanne!

as Music

1933
The Only Girl

as Music Arranger

1932
The Tempest

as Music

1932
Tumultes

as Original Music Composer

1931
In the act

as Songs

1930
The Blue Angel

as Original Music Composer

1930
The Other

as Music

1930
Burglars

as Original Music Composer

1930
1926
The Wife's Crusade

as Music Score Producer

1919
Prinz Kuckuck

as Music

Actor

1961
One, Two, Three

as Conductor at Grand Hotel (uncredited)

1948
A Foreign Affair

as Piano Player at The Lorelei (uncredited)

1941
Manpower

as Accompanist (uncredited)

1931
The Man in Search of His Murderer

as Vorsitzender der „Weißen Weste“

1930
The Blue Angel

as Pianist (uncredited)

Crew

1945
My Name Is Julia Ross

as Additional Music

1944
The Missing Juror

as Additional Music

1943
The Chance of a Lifetime

as Additional Music

Director

1933
The Only Girl

as Director

1933
The Only Girl

as Director