 Larry Adler (born in Baltimore on 10 February 1914) was the harmonica player who should have been nominated for an Oscar for his irresistibly buoyant theme for Genevieve (d. Henry Cornelius, 1953) but, because he was blacklisted at the time, the credit went to music director Muir Mathieson. He began in films doing speciality spots in Hollywood musicals such as The Big Broadcast of 1937 (US, d. Norman Taurog, 1936), appeared in the British romantic drama, St Martin's Lane (d. Tim Whelan, 1938), with Charles Laughton, and returning to England in the '50s as composer on several films.
Bibliography
Adler, Larry, It Ain't Necessarily So (1985) Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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