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Title: George Duning, prolific film composer
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1960
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Pictured is film composer, George Duning, working at his piano. The former jazz trumpeter and prolific composer of music for television and motion pictures scored such classic films as "From Here to Eternity" (1953) and "Picnic" (1955), for which he received Oscar nominations; he was also nominated in 1949, 1950 and 1956. Duning died in 2000 of cardiovascular disease at age 92 in San Diego. Photograph dated March 8, 1960.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00092403
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d006_f22_i6; H-1943
CARL0005018391
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43732
Subject: Duning, George
Trumpet players--United States
Composers--United States
Motion picture music--United States
Valley Times Collection photographs

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