| LC control no. | n 88094647 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Edens, Roger, 1905-1970 |
| Birth date | 1905-11-09 |
| Death date | 1970-07-13 |
| Place of birth | Hillsboro (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Motion picture producers and directors |
| Found in | Little Nellie Kelly [MP] 1940: credits (musical adaptation, Roger Edens) Perf. arts biog. master index, 1981 (Roger Edens; b. 1905, d. 1970) IMDb, June 8, 2017 ( Roger Edens (1905-1970); born November 9, 1905 in Hillsboro, Texas; died July 13, 1970 in Los Angeles, California; soundtrack, music department, producer; won 3 Oscars) Wikipedia, June 9, 2017 (Roger Edens; Roger Edens (November 9, 1905--July 13, 1970) was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood"; he worked as a piano accompanist for ballroom dancers before going to work as a musical conductor on Broadway; he went to Hollywood in 1932 along with his protege Ethel Merman, writing and arranging her material for her films at Paramount; in 1935, he joined MGM as a musical supervisor and occasional composer and arranger, notably of music for Judy Garland; Edens is considered to be an important creative musical figure from the end of the 1930s until the beginning of the 1960s; he continued to compose, score, and arrange MGM musicals throughout the 1940s; he also produced a number of films after the mid-1950s and wrote special material for Judy Garland's Palace Theatre debut in 1951 and for her London Palladium concerts the same year) |
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