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Andre Previn did NOT compose the score

posted 11 years ago by lastmidnite2
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It was composed by Marguerite Monnot for Broadway. Previn arranged the same music for the film, as the songs themselves were cut. IMDB should really correct this.

[–] helena_2 11 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out. Giving Previn full credit for the score is very unfair to Marguerite Monnot. I'm surprised that a talent of such stature as Previn has permitted it.

[–] practicepiano 9 years ago

I just heard a fragment of familiar music in the score of Irma la Douce, and realized it was Previn's music from Elmer Gantry.

So he was "borrowing" from himself, as well.

I was only half paying attention, so I don't know if it was meant as a joke due to what was happening onscreen at that moment. I will have to watch for it another time.

[–] danielcw 9 years ago

It was composed by Marguerite Monnot for Broadway. Previn arranged the same music for the film, as the songs themselves were cut.

Previn is credited in the movie as composer (IIRC "music by") but 2 people from the play are credited before him, one of them for music, but I do not remember the name. So the credits here are correct, but incomplete.

IMDB should really correct this.

If you see an error on IMDB, why don't you start to correct it?

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