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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Adolph Deutsch
(20 October 1897 - 1 January 1980) was a composer, conductor and
arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! (1955),
and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). The London, England-born Deutsch was also
nominated for The Band Wagon (1953) and the 1951 film version of Show
Boat , for which he conducted the orchestra. For Broadway and Hollywood,
he conducted, composed and arranged music, but did not write songs, not
even for the Broadway shows on which he worked. In addition to his music
for westerns and his conducting of the scores for musicals, Deutsch also
composed for films noir, including The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The
Maltese Falcon (1941), and Nobody Lives Forever (1946), and the Billy
Wilder comedies The Apartment (1960), and Some Like It Hot (1959).
