Double life : the autobiography of Miklós Rózsa / foreword by Antal Doráti.

Author/creator Rózsa, Miklós
Format Book
Publication InfoTunbridge Wells, Kent : Baton Press, 1984, ©1982.
Description224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Rózsa, Miklós, 1907-1995.
Composers--20th century. --Biography.

Contents Childhood in Hungary -- Leipzig -- Paris -- London: part one -- London: part two -- A Hungarian in Hollywood -- Hollywood in the 1940s -- The MGM years -- Return to Hungary -- Epilogue: stock-taking.
Abstract Miklós Rózsa is a composer of the Golden Age of Hollywood. His music for such classics as Double Indemnity, Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, The Four Feathers, The Thief of Baghdad, Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur brought him Oscars, accolades and spectacular success. But all the while, the man who put the magic into the movies has lived a double life: his fame as an outstanding classical composer grew alongside his flourishing Hollywood career. Onto the stage of Rózsa's double life walk Ravel and Toscanini, Adolf Hitler and Winifred Wagner, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat and Ginger Rogers, Sir Robert Vansittart, the flamboyant Kordas, the Oliviers, the great Richard Strauss and the infuriating Hedda Hopper, Alain Resnais and Alfred Hitchcock; Ralph Richardson, Moira Shearer and peter Ustinov. His encounters with them all are described in this most compelling of autobiographies.
Bibliography noteIncludes filmography (pages 208-209), discography (pages 210-219), and index.
ISBN0859361411 (pbk.)

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML410.R883 A28 1984 ✔ Available Place Hold