Arthur Lange
Born: 1889-04-16 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1956-12-07
Known For: Sound
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the 1910s, Lange was active as a songwriter, collaborating frequently with lyricist Andrew B. Sterling and publishing with the Joe Morris Music Company. During the first half of the 1920s Lange recorded abundantly for Cameo Records. His 1923 orchestra, which also played the Cinderella Ballroom on Broadway and which included "hot" trumpeters Earl Oliver and Tommy Gott, was at the end of that year bought by young well-to-do bandleader Roger Wolfe Kahn, and it is not known whether the recordings Lange made after this point and up to 1926 were still made by these musicians (Kahn himself did not start recording under his own name for Victor Records until March 1925) or by another group. His 1928 recordings for Pathé Records were, however, almost certainly made by other unknown personnel. Though Lange himself played both piano and banjo he seems (with the exception of a recording by his "Lange trio" in 1922) to have acted only as conductor and arranger on his band recording dates. Census records show that Lange shared a residence in the Hollywood Hills in 1930 with Ray Heindorf, who would go on to win three Academy Awards. Lange was a prolific arranger of dance band orchestrations during the 1920s. His "stock" orchestrations were in use by many bands of the day. Lange wrote "Arranging for the Modern Dance Orchestra" which was the definitive work of its day (published Robbins Music, 1926).
Filmography
1956
- Prima Donna ... (Orchestrator)
1954
- The Mad Magician ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beachhead ... (Music)
- Southwest Passage ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ring of Fear ... (Original Music Composer)
1953
- The Steel Lady ... (Original Music Composer)
- 99 River Street ... (Original Music Composer)
1952
- Lost in Alaska ... (Music)
- Japanese War Bride ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lady Says No ... (Music)
1951
- Cry Danger ... (Music)
- The Groom Wore Spurs ... (Original Music Composer)
1950
- Woman on the Run ... (Music)
1949
- Dynamite ... (Original Music Composer)
1948
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven ... (Music)
1945
- Along Came Jones ... (Original Music Composer)
1944
- Casanova Brown ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bermuda Mystery ... (Music)
- The Woman in the Window ... (Original Music Composer)
- Belle of the Yukon ... (Original Music Composer)
1943
- Lady of Burlesque ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Gang's All Here ... (Music)
- Quiet Please, Murder ... (Additional Music)
- They Came to Blow Up America ... (Original Music Composer)
1942
- It's Everybody's War ... (Original Music Composer)
1941
- The Maltese Falcon ... (Orchestrator)
1940
- They Drive by Night ... (Orchestrator)
- Married and in Love ... (Original Music Composer)
1939
- Let Freedom Ring ... (Music)
- The Great Victor Herbert ... (Music)
1938
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ... (Original Music Composer)
- Submarine Patrol ... (Original Music Composer)
1937
- On the Avenue ... (Music Director)
- This Is My Affair ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse ... (Music)
1936
- The Great Ziegfeld ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Magnificent Brute ... (Music)
1935
- The Lottery Lover ... (Original Music Composer)
- It's A Small World ... (Music Director)
1934
- Stand Up and Cheer! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Marie Galante ... (Original Music Composer)
- Now I'll Tell ... (Music Director)
1933
- Hello, Sister! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cavalcade ... (Original Music Composer)
- State Fair ... (Orchestrator)
- The Warrior's Husband ... (Music)
- Broadway Bad ... (Music Director)
- My Weakness ... (Music)
1932
- Call Her Savage ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lady with a Past ... (Original Music Composer)
- This Is the Night ... (Additional Music)
- A Woman Commands ... (Music Director)
- The Death Kiss ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rackety Rax ... (Music)
- The Golden West ... (Original Music Composer)
1931
- The Big Gamble ... (Music Director)
- The Tip-Off ... (Music Director)
- Suicide Fleet ... (Music Director)
- Millie ... (Music Director)
- A Woman of Experience ... (Music Director)
- Freighters of Destiny ... (Music Director)
1930
- The Americans Come as Vocalist
1929
- Our Modern Maidens ... (Music)
- The Mysterious Island ... (Music)
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self - Orchestra Leader
- Manhattan Serenade ... (Music Arranger)