Ken Darby
Oyuncu · 1909 – 1992 · Hebron, Nebraska, USA
Kenneth Lorin Darby (May 13, 1909 – January 24, 1992) was an American composer, vocal arranger, lyricist, and conductor. His film scores were recognized by the awarding of three Academy Awards and one Grammy Award. He provided vocals for the Munchkinland mayor in The Wizard of Oz (1939), who was portrayed in the film by Charlie Becker. Darby is also notable as the author of The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe (1983), a biography of the home of Rex Stout's fictional detective. Ken Darby's choral group, The Ken Darby Singers, sang backup for Bing Crosby on the original 1942 Decca Records studio recording of "White Christmas." In 1940 they also sang on the first album ever made of the songs from The Wizard of Oz, a film on which Darby had worked. However, the album was a studio cast recording, not a true soundtrack album (although it did feature Judy Garland), and it did not use the film's original arrangements. Darby also performed as part of "The King's Men," a vocal quartet that recorded several songs with Paul Whiteman's orchestra in the mid-1930s and were the featured vocalists on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio program from 1940 through 1953. In the early 1940s, he performed with the King's Men a musical version of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" that he wrote called "T'was the Night Before Christmas" which was performed on the Christmas episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly. They also participated on the soundtracks of several MGM films, including The Wizard of Oz and occasional Tom and Jerry cartoons. The King's Men portrayed the Marx Brothers in a musical spoof in the film Honolulu (Darby played one of two 'Grouchos' in the group). He also provided the theme song and the soundtrack for The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, the 1955-61 television series starring Hugh O'Brian, and The Adventures of Jim Bowie starring Scott Forbes. He was a composer and production supervisor for Walt Disney Studios and was the choral and vocal director of the 1946 Disney film classic Song of the South. He was also Marilyn Monroe's vocal coach for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and There's No Business Like Show Business (1954). Darby was also the principal composer of the 1956 Elvis Presley hit "Love Me Tender" for the movie of the same name but signed the rights over to his wife, Vera Matson, whose name appears as co-lyricist and co-composer with Presley. The song was adapted from the Civil War-era song "Aura Lee." Presley's composing credit was mandated by his management, to entice him to record the song. Darby was often asked about his decision to credit the song to his wife along with Presley, and his standard response was an acid, "Because she didn't write it either." An avid fan of Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout's fictional detective genius, Darby wrote a detailed biography of Wolfe's home titled The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe (1983). Ken Darby died January 24, 1992, in the final stages of production of his last book, Hollywood Holyland: The Filming and Scoring of 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (1992). He was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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Film6.3AnimasyonAileFun and Fancy Free yalnızca cazibeyle parıldayan değil, aynı zamanda Disney'in tarihi anları açısından inanılmaz derecede zengin ve önemli olan keyifli bir görsel şölen. Walt Disney'in Mickey Mouse'u seslendirdiği son animasyon filmi olan Fun and Fancy Free, aynı zamanda Walt Disney'in en ünlü dörtlüsü Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy ve Jiminy Cricket yer aldığı tek film. Disney'in klasikleşmiş hikaye anlatımı, unutulmaz karakterler, müzik ve macera geleneğini takip eden Fun and Fancy Free, Bongo ve Mickey & The Beantalk'un Jiminy Cricket tarafından sihirli bir şekilde hayata geçirilen iki zamansız masal ve animasyonun ustaca birleşimidir.
Film5.9AnimasyonMüzikFantasia geleneğinde, Make Mine Music, Winnie The Pooh'un arkasındaki sevilen ses tarafından anlatılan "Peter And The Wolf" gibi eğlence dolu favorileri içeren, müzikle dolu dokuz animasyonlu kısa filmden oluşan muhteşem bir koleksiyon. Ayrıca, "Casey At The Bat", "The Whale Who Wanted Who Wanted at The Met At" ve "Johnnie Fedora And Alice Bluebonnet" gibi klasik çizgi film hitlerinin de keyfini çıkaracaksınız
Make Mine Music
1946 · 291 votes
Film6.5RomantikSavaşTwo vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
For Me and My Gal
1942 · 54 votes
Film6.4KomediRomantikA woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Two-Faced Woman
1941 · 28 votes
Film7.0AnimasyonKomediYeğenler Cadılar Bayramı kostümleriyle Donald'ın evine geldiklerinde üzerlerine su döker ve numarasına güler. Bir cadı bunu görür ve çocuklara yardım etmeye karar verir. Sihirle Donald'a kötü anlar yaşatıyor ve çocuklar sonunda ödüllerini alıyor.
Film6.9AnimasyonKomediTom is a cowboy boot-wearing cat at a Texas dude ranch. When a beautiful female cat comes for a visit, Tom takes time from his regular torturing of Jerry to use the mouse as a way to impress the dame. Naturally, Jerry gives Tom his comeuppance.
Texas Tom
1950 · 58 votes
Film6.6RomantikDramA married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Broadway Serenade
1939 · 5 votes
- FilmBelgeselTarih
Follows the life and career of legendary composer Alfred Newman.
Film6.5KomediRomantikWanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Honolulu
1939 · 8 votes
Film5.0MaceraWesternHoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.
Law of the Pampas
1939 · 3 votes
Film6.0RomantikWesternWounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
The Kansan
1943 · 8 votes
Film7.1KomediRomantikA woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
Margie
1946 · 9 votes
Film7.7MüzikKomediThe company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Let's Go Native
1930 · 3 votes
Film5.2KomediAnimasyonPiggy and Fluffy have adventures on a riverboat and Uncle Tom is chased by skeletons promising to take him to Hallelujah Land.
Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land
1931 · 23 votes
FilmAnimasyonKomediA package film of Halloween-themed cartoons, one of which being Trick or Treat (1952).
Film5.5MüzikRomantikSylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lie ahead when Lili gets in the way.
Going Hollywood
1933 · 15 votes
Film5.4SuçAnimasyonBosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.
Big Man from the North
1931 · 16 votes
Film6.1AnimasyonAileCasey Jones is one of the best engineers there is and it is his duty to get his cargo to its destination on time via train. He sets off but is set back by a number of unfortunate circumstances such as a rain storm, a cow on the tracks, a mad bomber, and finally, when his train starts falling apart. Worst of all, he is on a collision course with another train coming in the opposite direction. After a terrific crash, the man at the train station assumes the worst when Casey doesn't show up but, to his delight, Casey finally makes it to his destination a total wreck but on time (almost).
The Brave Engineer
1950 · 19 votes
Film6.4AnimasyonKomediDonald and Daisy are walking when he is hit by a flowerpot. He's convinced he's a famous singer, and he croons divinely, but does not recognize Daisy. He in fact does become famous. Daisy is devastated by her inability to get over him and sees a psychiatrist. He tells her she has to choose between the world having Donald, or her getting him back. She picks herself, and drops another flowerpot, which restores him.
Donald's Dilemma
1947 · 40 votes
Film6.0FantastikAnimasyonThe last Goopy Geer cartoon. The king returns to his castle, and asks where the queen is; she's in the parlor, and won't be seen, according to the title song. He goes to his throne and summons his jester, Goopy Geer. A black knight arrives and threatens one of the young ladies in court; Goopy Geer fights him off, first with an ax, then in armor from kitchen utensils, then butting him with a mounted animal head, which makes the knight's armor fall apart. He pulls it together again and runs away.
The Queen Was in the Parlor
1932 · 14 votes
Film6.0WesternHoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob.
Stagecoach War
1940 · 3 votes
Film5.0WesternHoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King's Men songs include: "Hi Thar Stranger" and "Lazy Rolls the Rio Grande."
Renegade Trail
1939 · 3 votes
Film6.0WesternEuropean bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
The Showdown
1940 · 4 votes
Film6.7AnimasyonThe Martins and the Coys are two feuding clans. One day, Grandpa Coy gets caught in the Martin henhouse, and a massive battle erupts, leaving only a Martin girl and a Coy boy. Love conquers all for a while, anyhow. Originally released as a segment in Make Mine Music.
The Martins and the Coys
1946 · 7 votes