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'''Maximillian Raoul Walter Steiner''' was born in Vienna on May 10, 1888. Max was the grandson of the musical impresario who discovered Strauss and brought Offenbach to Vienna. By the time he was 16 he was already conducting, composing, and continuing his studies under Gustav Mahler. With the outbreak of the World War I, Steiner emigrated to America, where he kept busy with Broadway musicals and operettas.
One of his most beneficial American jobs was to compose the music to be conducted during screenings of the silent film ''The Bondman'' (1915); he became a friend of William Fox, the film's producer, giving Steiner early entree into the Hollywood that would so gainfully employ him in later years. It was at RKO Pictures that Max developed his style of writing scores for films. Adapting the concept developed by [[Richard Wagner]], Max wrote music that became a dramatic content of the film, not just a background filler. His films ''Symphony of Six Million'', ''[[King Kong]]'', and ''[[The Informer]]'' were examples of the [[Leitmotif]] style of music he became so very famous for. While his critics referred to this style of music as "[[Mickey Mousing]]" the producers and directors loved his music. They could count on the fact that Steiner would make a good film better and great film superb. Shortly after being let go by RKO he was hired by [[David O Selznick|David O. Selznick]] to begin work on the classic ''[[Gone
Max in his career produced scores for over 250 films! He received 26 nominations from the Academy and took home three Oscars.
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* ''The Informer'' (1935) -- A powerful [[John Ford]] film about "the Troubles" in [[Oireland]]
* ''She'' (1935)
* ''[[
* ''Follow the Fleet'' (1936) -- A [[Fred Astaire]] and [[Ginger Rogers]] musical
* ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy]]'' (1936)
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* ''The Life of Emile Zola'' (1937) -- A Paul Muni [[Biopic]]
* ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1938)
* ''Jezebel'' (1938) -- [[Bette Davis]]'s attempt to play [[Gone
* ''Four Daughters'' (1938) -- A wildly popular [[Warner Bros]]. [[Chick Flick]]
* ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938) -- The return of the "Dead End Kids"'' (aka "the Bowery Boys); famous as the film in which [[Jimmy Cagney]] "dies yellow"
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* ''Dodge City'' (1939) -- An [[Errol Flynn]] [[Western]]
* ''Dark Victory'' (1939) -- A [[Bette Davis]] [[Chick Flick|weepie]]
* ''[[Gone
* ''Four Wives'' (1939) -- Sequel to ''Four Daughters''
* ''Virginia City'' (1940) -- An [[Errol Flynn]] [[Western]]
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* ''Sergeant York'' (1941) -- [[Gary Cooper]] wins [[World War I]]
* ''They Died with Their Boots On'' (1941) -- [[Errol Flynn]]'s turn to play Custer
* ''[[Now
* ''[[Casablanca]]'' (1942)
* ''Mission to Moscow'' (1943) -- Probably the most blatant pro-Soviet propaganda ever to be produced by [[Warner Bros|a major American studio]]
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* ''The Beast with Five Fingers'' (1946)
* ''Life with Father'' (1947) -- A hilariously nostalgic look back at a New York family in the 1880's
* ''[[
* ''[[Key Largo]]'' (1948)
* ''Adventures of Don Juan'' (1948) -- [[Errol Flynn]] [[Sarcasm Mode|cast against type]] as the legendary romantic adventurer
* ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' (1949) -- [[Gary Cooper]] plays [[
* ''[[White Heat]]'' (1949) -- "[[Signature Line|Made it, Ma! Top of the world!]]"
* ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1954)
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* ''The Glass Menagerie'' (1950)
* ''Young Man with a Horn'' (1950) -- Kirk Douglas plays the trumpet. No, really.
* ''King Richard and the Crusaders'' (1954) -- In which [[Richard the Lion Heart]] becomes a major [[Deadpan Snarker]] and Saladin becomes [[WTH? Casting Agency|Rex Harrison]]; based loosely on Sir [[Walter Scott]]'s ''The Talisman''
* ''[[The Searchers]]'' (1956) [[John Ford]]'s masterpiece, and perhaps the greatest [[Western]] ever made
* ''John Paul Jones'' (1959)
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