Tag Archives: Lowell Thomas

May 2021
 The Hermitage: Tiomkin’s proposed television spectacular

Posted on June 9, 2021 by wsherk

by Warren Sherk During Dimitri Tiomkin’s decades long friendship with broadcaster Lowell Thomas, one of the more unusual projects he pitched was a television spectacular on the Hermitage Museum in Russia. READ MORE: The Lively Letters of Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell … Read More…

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May 2020
Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell Thomas team up for Benjamin Franklin biopic

Posted on May 15, 2020 by wsherk

Our two-part article on letters shared between Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell Thomas touched on a proposed film production on Benjamin Franklin. READ: The Lively Letters of Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell Thomas, part 1 During the summer of 1960, Dimitri Tiomkin, … Read More…

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April 2020
The lively letters of Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell Thomas, Part 2

Posted on April 2, 2020 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk The worlds of Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell Thomas converged through the making of the 1957 Cinerama documentary, Search for Paradise, produced by Thomas and scored by Tiomkin. After the film’s release, a lively procession of letters, telegrams, and … Read More…

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March 2020
The lively letters of Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell Thomas, Part 1

Posted on March 31, 2020 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk The worlds of Dimitri Tiomkin and Lowell Thomas converged through the making of the 1957 Cinerama documentary Search for Paradise, produced by Thomas and scored by Tiomkin. After the film’s release, a lively procession of letters, telegrams, and … Read More…

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February 2020
Hollywood Harmonies by Dimitri Tiomkin and Prosper Buranelli

Posted on March 2, 2020 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk For ages, pursuit of a book contract meant first writing a proposal and a sample chapter. Sometime before the publication in 1959 of Please Don’t Hate Me, Dimitri Tiomkin’s autobiography written with Prosper Buranelli, a sample chapter … Read More…

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