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- Category: Recording
- Star rank: 2131
- Address:
6702 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing east
- GPS location:
34.101444, -118.336346
Morris Stoloff
Biography
Morris Stoloff Conducting in 1949
Source: Freebase
Morris Stoloff (1 August 1898, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 16 April 1980, Los Angeles, California) was a musical composer. Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop fans, he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 10 hit that paired the swing era tune “Moonglow” with the love theme from the movie, Picnic. A child prodigy on the violin, Stoloff was taken under the wing of W. A. Clark. After studying with Leopold Auer for several years, Stoloff was touring the U.S. as a featured soloist at the age of 16, and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic a year later as its youngest member ever. When sound came to motion pictures, studios came looking for musicians to provide it, and Stoloff was one of the first to cross over from classical music to movies. He was the first concertmaster on Paramount Pictures’ payroll.
He was nominated for 12 Oscars winning two.
Fact file
- Born: 1 August 1898, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Died: 16 April 1980, Los Angeles, California (Aged 81)
- Occupation: Composer
Read more about Morris Stoloff at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, south side, between McCadden and Las Palmas
Nearby you will also find Zino Francescatti, Eugene Pallette, and many others.