Tag Archives: Frank Capra

January 2025
Behind the Photograph: Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner

Posted on February 2, 2025 by wsherk

Two emerging titans of film scoring, Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner, appear together on the scoring stage podium for the Columbia Pictures film, Lost Horizon. With right arm raised, conductor Steiner faces the Columbia Studio Orchestra, with instruments at the … Read More…

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June 2022
Dimitri Tiomkin and Madame President, on the road to producing films

Posted on July 4, 2022 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk In the summer of 1962, Dimitri Tiomkin sent his friend and frequent collaborator, the producer and director Frank Capra, a story titled, “Madame President,” to read. In Capra’s rear-view mirror was Pocketful of Miracles (1961), a … Read More…

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