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Roy Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was a film music composer. Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar)

Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores. He is particularly identified with the films of Val Lewton

Born in New York City, he orchestrated and conducted for the Broadway stage, before moving to Hollywood in the late 1920s to work as music director for Radio Pictures, later RKO Pictures, where he remained until he retired in 1955. Val Lewton ( 7 May  – 14 March) was an American Film producer and Screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding The City of New York Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located He worked as composer or arranger on over 200 films, and received Academy Award nominations for Quality Street (1937), My Favorite Wife (1940), I Married a Witch (1942), Joan of Paris (1942), The Fallen Sparrow (1943), The Fighting Seabees (1944), and The Enchanted Cottage (1945). The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically My Favorite Wife (released in the UK as My Favourite Wife) is a 1940 Screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne I Married a Witch is a fantasy Romantic comedy film, directed by René Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for Joan of Paris is a 1942 War film about five Royal Air Force pilots shot down over Nazi -occupied France during World War II The Fighting Seabees is a War film starring John Wayne, Dennis O'Keefe and Susan Hayward. The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 Romantic film starring Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick. His piano concerto from The Enchanted Cottage was performed in concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1945. The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern Amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles California, USA, that is used primarily for music Performances In 1961, a house fire destroyed all Webb's film scores and unpublished concert music, after which Webb ceased composing.

Webb died in 1982 from a heart attack at the age of 94. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply


An alumnus of Columbia University, Webb wrote the fight song Roar, Lion, Roar for his alma mater in 1925. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Roar Lion Roar is the fight song for the Columbia Lions written by musical composer Roy Webb in 1925 while an undergraduate at Columbia University. Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Several cues composed by Webb were used in the newsreel montage of Kane's life in Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane ( 1941) is an American Dramatic film, and the first Feature film directed by Orson Welles, who also co-authored He also composed several cues (uncredited) for This is Cinerama, the first Cinerama production in 1952. This is Cinerama is a 1952 film which shows how film makers could use the new technology of Cinerama to make movies more realistic by broadening the aspect Cinerama is the trademarked name for a Widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge deeply-curved

Film scores

Of the many films Webb worked on, the best known are:

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