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Stravinsky in Hollywood

5.3 52 mins Documentary   2014
Director(s): Marco Capalbo

STRAVINSKY IN HOLLYWOOD explores the short-lived film career of this legendary composer, it is the story of his trials and tribulations with the Hollywood Studios, the story of an old school European artist knocking heads with the brash New World. Igor Stravinsky lived in the heart of Hollywood from 1939 until shortly before his death in 1971 - longer than in any other single place. He came expecting to find lucrative work composing for the movies. The film uses a combination of existing archival footage (some of it never before seen), interviews with Stravinsky and his assistant Robert Craft. The documentary includes scenes from several big studio films of the 40s brought together for the first time with the music which Stravinsky wrote for them.

Casts of Stravinsky in Hollywood

Igor Stravinsky

as Self (archive footage)

Vera de Bosset

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Craft

as Self (archive footage)

George Balanchine

as Self (archive footage)

Marco Capalbo

as Self - Narrator (voice)

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