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Henry Mancini
Birthday:
16 April 1924
Birth Name:
Enrico Nicola Mancini
Biography
[on the laugh-out-loud humor of The Party (1968)] That's what I get for writing a nice song for a comedy. Nobody's going to hear a note of it.
[on the laugh-out-loud humor of The Party (1968)] That's what I get for writing a nice song for a comedy. Nobody's going to hear a note of it.
[In a speech during a tribute to Jerry Goldsmith, noting Goldsmith's versatility, musical genius, and ability to completely change his style for each score he wrote] Frankly, he scares the hell out of the rest of us.
[In a speech during a tribute to Jerry Goldsmith, noting Goldsmith's versatility, musical genius, and ability to completely change his style for each score he wrote] Frankly, he scares the hell out of the rest of us.
[on Julie Andrews] I admire Julie tremendously. She's never hit a bad note in her life.
[on Julie Andrews] I admire Julie tremendously. She's never hit a bad note in her life.
Henry Mancini
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, but brought up in Pennsylvania, where he played the flute in a local band, as a youth, before sending some arrangements to Benny Goodman. Goodman offered him a job and, after serving in WWII, he joined the rearranged Glenn Miller band. In 1952, he was given a two-week assignment at Universal to work on an Bud Abbott and Lou Costello film and ended up staying for six years. Success with The Glenn Miller Story (1954) allowed him to score many other films, helping along the way to change the style of film background music by injecting jazz into the traditional orchestral arrangements of the 1950s. He was nominated for 18 Oscars and won four; in addition, he won 20 Grammys and 2 Emmys, made over 50 albums and had 500 works published. Mancini collaborated extensively with Blake Edwards -- firstly on TV's Peter Gunn (1958), then on Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), which won him two Oscars; he won further Oscars for the titles song for Days of Wine and Roses (1962) and the score for Victor Victoria (1982); he will be best-remembered for the theme tune for The Pink Panther (1963).
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