Harry Jackson (cinematographer)
Harry Jackson( April 15, 1896 – August 3, 1953) was an American cinematographer.
Jackson was born in Nebraska, and was first employed in Hollywood as a still photographer for Warner Brothers.
As a cinematographer he was active through the end of the silent era in 1927, through his death in 1953, shooting about 75 films altogether.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Color Cinematography for his work on 1947's" Mother Wore Tights".
Walter Ulfig
Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.
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.
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".
Dan Dailey
Daniel James
Dailey Jr.( December 14, 1915 – October 16, 1978) was an American dancer and actor.
He is best remembered for a series of popular musicals he made at 20th Century Fox such as" Mother Wore Tights"( 1947).
Mother Wore Tights
Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang.
This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young.
It was the highest grossing film of Grable's career up to this time, earning more than $5 million at the box office.
It was also 20th
Century Fox's most successful film of 1947.
Alfred Newman won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Josef Myrow (music) and Mack Gordon (lyrics) were nominated for Original Song ("You Do"), while Harry Jackson was nominated for Color Cinematography.
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.
Miriam Young
Miriam Young( died September 12, 1974) was an American writer best known for children's books.
She also wrote" Mother Wore Tights", a memoir about growing up in a vaudeville family, which was adapted as the 1947 film of the same name, a" Hollywood supermusical".
Young was born in 1911 or 1912, her" New York Times" obituary implies.
Other sources give year of birth 1913.
The Library of Congress gives date February 26, 1913.
Josef Myrow
Josef Myrow( February 18, 1910 – December 24, 1987 in Los Angeles, California) was a Russian- born composer known for his work in film scores in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was nominated for an Academy Award twice: in 1947 for the song" You Do" from the film" Mother Wore Tights" and in 1950 for" Wilhelmina" from the film" Wabash Avenue".
Other notable compositions include" Autumn Nocturne" and" You Make Me Feel So Young".
He also wrote the official song of the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary.
Abe Meyer
Abe Meyer( 1901 – 1969) was an American composer of film scores.

Question: Where did the composer of film Mother Wore Tights die?
Answer: Hollywood