Bronislau Kaper

Composer

About

Also Known As

Bronislaw Kaper

Birth Place

Poland

Born

February 05, 1902

Died

April 25, 1983

Cause of Death

Cancer

Biography

Began his career scoring early German sound films before moving to the US and embarking on a fruitful association with MGM in 1935....

Filmography

Let's Get Lost (1988)

Song

The Salzburg Connection (1972)

Music

Photos & Videos

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Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) It Must Be St. Peter

Glass Slipper, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Son Of The Cook

Biography

Began his career scoring early German sound films before moving to the US and embarking on a fruitful association with MGM in 1935.

Filmography

Music (Feature Film)

Let's Get Lost (1988)

Song

The Salzburg Connection (1972)

Music

A Flea in Her Ear (1968)

Composer

Counterpoint (1968)

Music

A Flea in Her Ear (1968)

Kisses for My President (1964)

Music

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Home from the Hill (1960)

Music

The Angel Wore Red (1960)

Music

BUtterfield 8 (1960)

Music

Green Mansions (1959)

Music Score

The Scapegoat (1959)

Music

Green Mansions (1959)

Composer

The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)

Music

Don't Go Near the Water (1957)

Music

Don't Go Near the Water (1957)

Composer

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

Music

The Power and the Prize (1956)

Music

Forever, Darling (1956)

Music

The Swan (1956)

Music

Forever, Darling (1956)

Composer

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

Composer

Quentin Durward (1955)

Music

The Prodigal (1955)

Music

The Glass Slipper (1955)

Music Director

The Glass Slipper (1955)

Her Twelve Men (1954)

The Naked Spur (1953)

Music

Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Music

Lili (1953)

Composer

It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1952)

Music Adapted

Invitation (1952)

Music

Shadow in the Sky (1952)

Music

The Wild North (1952)

Music Score

The Devil Makes Three (1952)

Composer

The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

Music

Mr. Imperium (1951)

Background Music score

Three Guys Named Mike (1951)

Music

Grounds for Marriage (1951)

Background Music score

The Tall Target (1951)

Music Arrangement

Golden Girl (1951)

Composer

Symphony in Slang (1951)

Song ("On Green Dolphin Street")

Key to the City (1950)

Music Score

A Life of Her Own (1950)

Music

To Please a Lady (1950)

Music

The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)

Music Score

Key to the City (1950)

Composer

The Skipper Suprised His Wife (1950)

Music

That Forsyte Woman (1949)

Music Score

The Secret Garden (1949)

Music Score

Act of Violence (1949)

Music Director

The Great Sinner (1949)

Music Score

Malaya (1949)

Music Score

That Midnight Kiss (1949)

Composer

The Secret Land (1948)

Music Score

B. F.'s Daughter (1948)

Green Dolphin Street (1947)

Music Score

Cynthia (1947)

Music Score

The Secret Heart (1946)

Music score comp and Adapted

Three Wise Fools (1946)

Music Score

Courage of Lassie (1946)

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)

Music Score

Nob Hill (1945)

Composer

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)

Music Score

The Cross of Lorraine (1944)

Music Score

The Heavenly Body (1944)

Music Score

Mrs. Parkington (1944)

Music Score

Gaslight (1944)

Music Score

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Music Score

Bataan (1943)

Music Score

Above Suspicion (1943)

Music Score

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

Composer

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

Music Score

Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)

Music Score

White Cargo (1942)

Music Score

A Yank at Eton (1942)

Fingers at the Window (1942)

Music Score

We Were Dancing (1942)

Music Score

The Affairs of Martha (1942)

Music Score

Rage in Heaven (1941)

Music Score

I'll Wait for You (1941)

Music Score

Two-Faced Woman (1941)

Music Score

A Woman's Face (1941)

Music Score

Whistling in the Dark (1941)

Music Score

When Ladies Meet (1941)

Music Score

The Chocolate Soldier (1941)

Music Adapted and Director

Blonde Inspiration (1941)

Music Score

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)

Music Score

Barnacle Bill (1941)

Music Score

H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

Music Score

The Chocolate Soldier (1941)

Composer

The Captain Is a Lady (1940)

Music Director

We Who Are Young (1940)

Music Score

Comrade X (1940)

Music Score

I Take This Woman (1940)

Lillian Russell (1940)

Composer

Birthright (1938)

Composer

Everybody Sing (1938)

Composer

A Day at the Races (1937)

Music

A Day at the Races (1937)

Composer

San Francisco (1936)

Composer

Three Smart Girls (1936)

Composer

Last of the Pagans (1935)

Original Music by

Kind Lady (1935)

Composer

The Perfect Gentleman (1935)

Composer

A Night at the Opera (1935)

Ein Lied fuer dich (1933)

Music

Melodie der Liebe (1932)

Songs

Die Grosse Attraktion (1931)

Music

Alraune (1927)

Music

Madame Wunscht keine Kinder (1926)

Music

Life Events

1935

Went to Hollywood, joined MGM at Louis B Mayer's request

1939

Became member of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

Videos

Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) It Must Be St. Peter Donna Reed as 1840-something Channel Islander Marguerite is distraught over the (Spoiler!) consecutive deaths of her parents, wakened by the waves at the foot of the cliff-side convent, chooses to approach (though it’s not strictly necessary) through the old smuggler’s cave, thus a dramatic sequence for the MGM special effects team, in Green Dolphin Street, 1947.

Glass Slipper, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Son Of The Cook More than 40-minutes into the feature, in a sequence dreamed up by servant girl “Ella” (Leslie Caron), who’s been told that Prince Charles (Michael Wilding) is just “the son of the cook of the palace of the duke,” she joins the first dance number, Charles Walters directing, dance by Roland Petit for Ballet de Paris, in MGM’s The Glass Slipper, 1955.

Chocolate Soldier, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) My Hero Right from the start, MGM offers their new star, Rise Stevens from The Metropolitan Opera in her first movie scene, paired with leading man Nelson Eddy, as Viennese light-opera singers Maria and Karl, with a song from the Ferenc Molnar-based operetta Testor, using only the title from the George Bernard Shaw play, The Chocolate Soldier, 1941.

Lili (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo Continuing the scene in which troubled puppeteer Paul (Mel Ferrer) has engaged 16-year-old orphan Leslie Caron (title character) in conversation with his creations, carnival friends led by Kurt Kasznar watching, the hit song by Bronislau Kaper and Helen Deutsch, in MGM’s Lili, 1953.

Brothers Karamazov, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Always Smell Money Music by Bronislau Kaper, Maria Schell lusty as Grushenka, and Yul Brynner as Dmitri, succumbing to a family flaw, in Richard Brooks' version of the Dostoyevsky novel, The Brothers Karamazov, 1958.

Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Universal's New Discovery Joining the credits, Universal quick to put the money on the screen, Deanna Durbin's first ever appearance, with cute sisters Nan Grey and Barbara Read, in a film the associate producer Joe Pasternak would remake 12 years later as Three Daring Daughters at MGM, Three Smart Girls, 1936.

Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Someone To Care For Me Penny (Deanna Durbin), who, with older sisters (Nan Grey, Barbara Read) has come to New York to stop their long-separated tycoon father (Charles Winninger) from marrying his girlfriend, works in a song by Bronislau Kaper, Walter Jurmann and Gus Kahn, in Universal's Three Smart Girls, 1936.

Go West (1940) -- (Movie Clip) My Word As An Embezzler Lulubelle (June MacCloy) diverts the saloon crowd with a tune by Bronislau Kaper and Gus Kahn, Quale (Groucho Marx) in support while Harpo and Chico (as Rusty and Joe) steal back the deed they used as an I-O-U, the latter wrapping with his obligatory piano bit, in Go West, 1940.

Swan, The - (Original Trailer) On the eve of her marriage to a prince, a noblewoman falls for her brother's tutor in The Swan (1956) starring Grace Kelly.

Three Wise Fools - (Original Trailer) An orphan girl (Margaret O'Brien) melts the hearts of three crusty old men (Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Edward Arnold).

White Cargo - (Original Trailer) Hedy Lamarr plays Tondelayo, driving the manager of an African plantation (Richard Carlson) out of his mind with lust in White Cargo (1942).

We Were Dancing - (Original Trailer) A Polish princess gives up society for the love of a gigolo in We Were Dancing (1942) starring Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas.

H.M. Pulham, Esquire - (Original Trailer) Robert Young plays a stuffy businessman who livens things up by having a fling with Hedy Lamarr. Directed by King Vidor.

Dulcy - (Original Trailer) Ann Sothern plays Dulcy (1940), the scatterbrained beauty who tries to help her fiance's career by throwing a big party.

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day - (Original Trailer) The eighth entry in the series reaches Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) but things don't work out as planned.

Devil Makes Three, The - (Original Trailer) A soldier (Gene Kelly) returns to Munich after the war and gets mixed up with the black market in The Devil Makes Three (1952).

Cynthia -- (Original Trailer) 15-year old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in Cynthia (1947).

Crossroads (1942) - (Original Trailer) A French diplomat (William Powell) who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

Chocolate Soldier, The - (Original Trailer) A jealous husband tests his opera singer wife's fidelity by pretending to be another man in The Chocolate Soldier (1941) starring Nelson Eddy and Rise Stevens.

Blonde Inspiration - (Original Trailer) A pulp-fiction writer hires a curvaceous blonde to be his muse in Blonde Inspiration (1941) directed by Busby Berkeley.

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