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Robert Emmett Dolan(1908-1972)

  • Music Department
  • Composer
  • Producer
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Composer, songwriter ("A Home in the Meadow"), film executive and conductor, educated at Loyola College (on scholarship) and a piano student of his mother, and later, Letonal, Mortimer Wilson, Joseph Schillinger, and Ernst Toch. He became music director for MGM in 1941, and also was the music director for the Broadway productions "Good News", "Follow Through", "Flying Colors", "Strike Me Pink", "Hot-Cha", "May Wine", "Hooray for What", "La Rose De France" (Paris), "Leave It to Me", "Very Warm for May", and "Louisiana Purchase". In addition, he wrote the Broadway stage scores for "Texas, Li'l Darlin" and "Foxy". Joining ASCAP in 1946, his chief musical collaborators included Johnny Mercer and Walter O'Keefe, and his other popular-song compositions include "Your Heart Will Tell You So", "At Last I'm in Love", "Little By Little", "Hullabaloo", "Song of the Highwayman", "You", "Out of the Past", "I Love You", "And So to Bed", "Glamour Waltz", "Big Movie Show in the Sky", "A Month of Sundays", and "Talk to Me, Baby".
BornAugust 3, 1908
DiedSeptember 26, 1972(64)
BornAugust 3, 1908
DiedSeptember 26, 1972(64)
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  • Nominated for 8 Oscars
    • 8 nominations total

Known for

Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen in White Christmas (1954)
White Christmas
7.5
  • Producer(produced by)
  • 1954
Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Virginia Dale, and Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn (1942)
Holiday Inn
7.3
  • Music Department
  • 1942
How the West Was Won (1962)
How the West Was Won
7.1
  • Music Department(uncredited)
  • 1962
Ray Milland, Ginger Rogers, Warner Baxter, and Jon Hall in Lady in the Dark (1944)
Lady in the Dark
5.9
  • Music Department
  • 1944

Credits

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Music Department



  • Brooke Adams, Brian Corcoran, Joel Davison, and Burl Ives in O.K. Crackerby! (1965)
    O.K. Crackerby!
    7.1
    TV Series
    • composer: theme music
    • 1965–1966
  • The Dinah Shore Special
    TV Special
    • musical director
    • 1965
  • King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
    King Kong vs. Godzilla
    5.7
    • composer: stock music (US version)
    • 1963
  • The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956)
    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
    8.0
    TV Series
    • orchestrator
    • 1963
  • How the West Was Won (1962)
    How the West Was Won
    7.1
    • associate conductor
    • music co-ordinator (uncredited)
    • 1962
  • Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
    8.9
    TV Series
    • conductor
    • orchestrator
    • musical director
    • 1960–1961
  • The Revlon Revue (1959)
    The Revlon Revue
    8.6
    TV Series
    • musical director
    • 1960
  • The Big Party (1959)
    The Big Party
    9.2
    TV Series
    • conductor
    • 1959
  • The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
    The DuPont Show of the Month
    7.2
    TV Series
    • musical director
    • 1958
  • The Leather Saint (1956)
    The Leather Saint
    5.9
    • composer: stock music (uncredited)
    • 1956
  • Alaska Seas (1954)
    Alaska Seas
    6.0
    • composer: stock music (uncredited)
    • 1954
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
    Creature from the Black Lagoon
    6.9
    • composer: stock music (uncredited)
    • 1954
  • Adele Jergens, Robert Merrill, Dinah Shore, and Alan Young in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)
    Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
    5.2
    • musical director
    • 1952
  • William Powell, Julie Adams, Charles Drake, and Tommy Ivo in The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)
    The Treasure of Lost Canyon
    6.2
    • composer: stock music (uncredited)
    • 1952
  • Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton in Let's Dance (1950)
    Let's Dance
    6.1
    • musical director
    • 1950

Composer



  • Project Twenty (1954)
    Project Twenty
    8.2
    TV Series
    • Composer
    • 1962
  • Mickey Rooney in The Many Sides of Mickey Rooney (1960)
    The Many Sides of Mickey Rooney
    TV Special
    • Composer
    • 1960
  • The Revlon Revue (1959)
    The Revlon Revue
    8.6
    TV Series
    • Composer
    • 1960
  • Henry Fonda and Leslie Caron in The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
    The Man Who Understood Women
    4.4
    • Composer
    • 1959
  • The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
    The Three Faces of Eve
    7.2
    • Composer
    • 1957
  • Van Heflin, Helen Hayes, Dean Jagger, and Robert Walker in My Son John (1952)
    My Son John
    5.6
    • Composer
    • 1952
  • Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton in Let's Dance (1950)
    Let's Dance
    6.1
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1950
  • Bing Crosby, Ann Blyth, and Barry Fitzgerald in Top o' the Morning (1949)
    Top o' the Morning
    6.1
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, Betty Field, and Ruth Hussey in The Great Gatsby (1949)
    The Great Gatsby
    6.5
    • Composer
    • 1949
  • Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, and Mary Jane Saunders in Sorrowful Jones (1949)
    Sorrowful Jones
    6.8
    • Composer
    • 1949
  • Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Calvert, Philip Friend, and Wanda Hendrix in My Own True Love (1949)
    My Own True Love
    5.8
    • Composer
    • 1949
  • Gary Cooper and Ann Sheridan in Good Sam (1948)
    Good Sam
    6.3
    • Composer (music score by)
    • 1948
  • William Powell and Ann Blyth in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
    Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
    6.3
    • Composer
    • 1948
  • Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour in Road to Rio (1947)
    Road to Rio
    6.8
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1947
  • Saigon (1947)
    Saigon
    6.2
    • Composer
    • 1947

Producer



  • The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956)
    The 28th Annual Academy Awards
    5.3
    TV Special
    • producer
    • 1956
  • Bing Crosby, Mitzi Gaynor, Zizi Jeanmaire, and Donald O'Connor in Anything Goes (1956)
    Anything Goes
    6.1
    • producer
    • 1956
  • Gloria DeHaven and Rosalind Russell in The Girl Rush (1955)
    The Girl Rush
    5.1
    • producer (uncredited)
    • 1955
  • Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen in White Christmas (1954)
    White Christmas
    7.5
    • producer (produced by)
    • 1954

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Bobby Dolan
  • Born
    • August 3, 1908
    • Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  • Died
    • September 26, 1972
    • Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Spouses
      Nan MartinMarch 17, 1948 - 1963 (divorced, 1 child)
  • Other works
    Active on Broadway in the following productions:

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Ex-brother-in-law of Buddy Ebsen.
  • Quotes
    [observation, 1973] As opposed to the 1930s or '40s, when song- writers like Gershwin and Kern and Rodgers and Arlen were using harmonics, I actually think we've retrogressed. Those days were much richer musically. Remember how the word 'lush' was applied to our popular music? One of the things that I've said to my own son Casey, who's seventeen and very much into this hard-rock thing, is 'I listen to it, but I get no surprises'. They'll keep on doing variations on one chord, but that's the same chord all the way through.

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  • When did Robert Emmett Dolan die?
    September 26, 1972
  • How old was Robert Emmett Dolan when he died?
    64 years old
  • Where did Robert Emmett Dolan die?
    Los Angeles, California, USA
  • When was Robert Emmett Dolan born?
    August 3, 1908
  • Where was Robert Emmett Dolan born?
    Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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