Alfred Newman (composer)
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.
From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music.
He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 43 times, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures.
Some of his most famous scores include "Wuthering HeightsThe Hunchback of Notre DameThe Mark of ZorroHow Green
Was My ValleyThe Song of BernadetteCaptain from CastileAll About EveLove is a Many Splendored ThingAnastasiaThe Diary of Anne FrankHow
The West
Was WonThe Greatest Story Ever Told", and his final score, "Airport", all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards.
He is perhaps best known for composing the fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox's productions.
Newman was also highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, and Irving Berlin.
He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals.
He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood.
Newman and two of his fellow composers, Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, were considered the "three godfathers of film music".
Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)
Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play "Birthday" by .
The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager.
The film tells the story of a man who has to prove he belongs in Hell by telling his life story.
It stars Gene Tierney, Don Ameche and Charles Coburn.
The supporting cast includes Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn, Eugene Pallette, Signe Hasso, Louis Calhern, Tod Andrews, and Clara Blandick.
Tarcisio Fusco
Tarcisio Fusco was an Italian composer of film scores.
He was the brother of the composer Giovanni Fusco and the uncle of operatic soprano Cecilia Fusco.
Jack Warden
Jack Warden( born John Warden Lebzelter Jr., September 18, 1920 July 19, 2006) was an American character actor of film and television.
He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor—for" Shampoo"( 1975), and" Heaven Can Wait"( 1978).
He received a BAFTA nomination for the former movie, and won an Emmy for his performance in" Brian's Song"( 1971).
Edwin O'Donovan
Edwin O'Donovan( June 11, 1914 – April 22, 2000) was an American art director.
He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film" Heaven Can Wait".
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a 1941 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall, in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth.
It stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes.
The film script, based on Harry Segall's play" Heaven Can Wait", was written by Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller.
The working titles for the film were Heaven Can Wait and Mr. Jordan Comes to Town.
The two lead actors reprised their roles in the film's sequel" Down to Earth"( 1947), and Warren Beatty later remade the film as" Heaven Can Wait"( 1978).
The premise of guardian angels was the focus of other Hollywood features, including" I Married an Angel"( 1942);" A Guy Named Joe"( 1943);" Angel on My Shoulder"( 1946), in which Rains plays the Devil;" It's a Wonderful Life"( 1946);" A Matter of Life and Death"( US:" Stairway to Heaven", 1946);" The Bishop's Wife"( 1947) and" Angels in the Outfield"( 1951), but it all began with" Here Comes Mr. Jordan".
" Here Comes Mr. Jordan" was originally going to be released on VHS and Betamax in November 1979 as one of Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment's launch titles, but because of the financial success of" Midnight Express", the release was cancelled and" Midnight Express" took" Here Comes Mr. Jordan"'s place in the launch lineup.
Due to this, Columbia did not release the film on home video until 1985.
Down to Earth (2001 film)
Down to Earth is a 2001 American fantasy- comedy film directed by Chris and Paul Weitz and written by Chris Rock, Lance Crouther, Ali LeRoi and Louis C.K.
It is the third film based on Harry Segall's stageplay" Heaven Can Wait", preceded by" Here Comes Mr. Jordan"( 1941) and" Heaven Can Wait"( 1978).
The film stars Chris Rock as Lance Barton, a comedian who is killed before his time on Earth is through.
He is given another chance to continue his life, but in the body of a rich middle- aged white man.
The film was released on February 16, 2001, and grossed$ 71 million against its$ 49 million budget.
Walter Ulfig
Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.
Fatso!
This 2012 Hindi film's main plot device is similar to the Hollywood films Shallow Hal( 2001)," Heaven Can Wait"( 1978), and" Here Comes Mr. Jordan"( 1941), latter two of which were in turn based on a Broadway stageplay from the 1930s – by the noted playwright Harry Segall – also entitled" Heaven Can Wait".

Question: Where did the composer of film Heaven Can Wait (1943 Film) die?
Answer: Hollywood