Steiner, Max 1888-1971

Overview

Works:	848 works in 1,712 publications in 9 languages and 42,544 library holdings
Genres:	Feature films Souvenirs (Keepsakes) Christmas cards
Roles:	Composer, msd, Musician, Conductor, Compiler, Performer, Arranger, Director, Other
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Max Steiner

Publications by Max Steiner

Publications by Max Steiner, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Max Steiner

The lost patrol The beast with five fingers ; Virginia City by Max Steiner ( Recording )
Mario Lanza; and, Max Steiner by Michael Burrows ( Book )
The Max Steiner collection : MSS 1547 by Harold B. Lee Library ( Book )
Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner : annotated filmography (1929-1964) by George A Lazarou ( Book )
An Austrian in Hollywood : leitmotifs, thematic transformation & key relationships in Max Steiner's 1942 film score "Now, voyager by Charles Francis Leinberger ( Book )

The Max Steiner annual ( Serial )
Vienna, end of an Empire the new music ( Visual )
25th anniversary Max Steiner Memorial Society ( Book )
The Max Steiner Music Society news letter ( Serial )
Max Steiner by John Stevens ( Book )
The Max Steiner journal ( Serial )
Digital audio tapes, ca. 1950 by Warner Bros ( Book )
Papers, 1880-1968 by Max Steiner ( Book )
Music archives by Republic Pictures Corporation ( )
Oral history interviews with Annette Kaufman, undated by Annette Kaufman ( Recording )
The view from the piano : a critical examination and contextualisation of film scores of Max Steiner, 1939-1945 by Katherine Sarah Daubney ( Book )
Photographs, 1969-1975 by Albert K Bender ( Book )
Max Steiner and the development of the classical Hollywood score : a study of King Kong by Tanya Carmen Barringer ( Book )
Papers, ca. 1990 by Michael Burrows ( Book )
Film Music Roundtable special program by Music Library Association ( Recording )

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Most widely held works by Max Steiner

Gone with the wind ( Visual )
31 editions published between 1939 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 2,083 libraries worldwide
Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

King Kong ( Visual )
5 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 1,946 libraries worldwide
Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to Skull Island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape named Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by using commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe, including the man who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

The treasure of the Sierra Madre ( Visual )
11 editions published between 1982 and 2003 in English and held by 1,722 libraries worldwide
Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune.

Mildred Pierce ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1990 and 2005 in English and held by 1,305 libraries worldwide
Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high society. Greedy, self-absorbed Veda is still ungrateful, and demands an even greater sacrifice of her mother. Eventually, Mildred finds herself ensnared in the world of police and suspicion when Monte is mysteriously murdered.

The big sleep ( Visual )
16 editions published between 1984 and 2008 in English and held by 1,295 libraries worldwide
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues and the spoiled rich.

Frank Capra's "Arsenic and old lace ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1992 and 2004 in English and held by 1,261 libraries worldwide
An easy-going drama critic is shocked to discover that his elderly aunts, the seemingly gentle-natured Abby and Martha, have a habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar of their old Brooklyn mansion.

The searchers ( Visual )
9 editions published between 1956 and 2008 in English and held by 1,209 libraries worldwide
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.

Casablanca ( Visual )
34 editions published between 1943 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,163 libraries worldwide
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.

Top hat ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2005 and 2010 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 1,029 libraries worldwide
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

Now, voyager ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1980 and 2005 in English and held by 1,000 libraries worldwide
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.

King Kong ( Visual )
27 editions published between 1933 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 920 libraries worldwide
Carl Denham, a filmmaker and entrepreneur, leads an expedition to Skull Island, a place where time has stood still. The natives pay homage to the one whom they revere as "Kong," and who is, indeed, king of the island. Denham, together with his beautiful starlet, Ann Darrow, and the crew of the ship, investigate a strange ritual being performed on the island by its native population. When Ann finds herself captured by the natives to become the bride of the mysterious Kong, the ship's first mate, Jack Driscoll, who is in love with Ann, manages to rescue her from the clutches of Kong. Denham then arranges to capture the creature, whom he calls "King Kong" and takes him back to New York.

Key Largo by John Huston ( Visual )
17 editions published between 1948 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 827 libraries worldwide
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.

Gone with the wind by Max Steiner ( Recording )
96 editions published between 1941 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 749 libraries worldwide
Music from the original motion picture soundtrack as monophonically recorded in 1939.

The fountainhead ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2000 and 2009 in English and held by 743 libraries worldwide
An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions.

The letter ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 677 libraries worldwide
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.

The life of Emile Zola ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 669 libraries worldwide
In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An artist should remain poor." His determined intervention in the Dreyfus Affair, at the request of Dreyfus's wife Lucie, results in "J'accuse!" his famous denunciation of the Army, and leads to a conviction for libel. He flees to England, where he remains until granted amnesty. Unfortunately, he dies before the news that Dreyfus was exonerated and reinstated to full rank can reach him. Indicative of the mores of its time, during the course of this clear story about institutionalized anti-Semitism, the word "Jew" is never mentioned. And while most Hollywood biographies must be taken with a grain--if not a handful--of salt, the film makes a reasonable effort at accuracy and completeness.

The Caine mutiny ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 665 libraries worldwide
During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny is a criminal act or an act of courage to save a ship from destruction at the hands of her captain.

Follow the fleet ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1995 and 2010 in English and held by 630 libraries worldwide
A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on shore leave in San Francisco.

Dark victory ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1939 and 2005 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 615 libraries worldwide
The life of a fast moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.

Gone with the wind ( Visual )
14 editions published between 1939 and 2010 in English and held by 557 libraries worldwide
Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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