Happy Centennial to the composer Elmer Bernstein. Bernstein was born 100 years ago today in NYC to Ukrainian immigrant parents. As a teenager he hoped to become a concert pianist. Fate had different plans; He became a legendary film composer instead. His A list breakthrough came in the mid 50s with the back-to-back success of The Man with the Golden Arm (his first Oscar nomination) and Cecil B DeMille's The Ten Commandments. A year before his death in 2004 he was Oscar nominated for a 14th time for Far From Heaven (2002). So many classic films on his resume. Consider...
- Sudden Fear (1952)
- The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - Oscar win
- An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- The Grifters (1991)
- The Age of Innocence (1993)
- Far From Heaven (2002)
Do you have a favourite score from his work?