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I'm watching Private Detective, a 1939 programmer whose one redeeming feature is Jane Wyman as a "lady" private eye. The composer is Rex Dunn, and the music is more notable than expected, maybe with a lot of classical adaptations, but nothing I recognize. Except it keeps sounding a bit like Tchaikovsky....
Not finding much on him, except a lot of mostly documentary credits on IMDB. I've never heard of him, don't find anything on FSM searching here or through Google. Anyone know anything more?
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Um, given that this has been here almost a day and only has 28 views, I think the answer is....
apparently not.
But I'll bump once or twice to give everyone a chance to demonstrate, well, either their ignorance or their apathy, I don't know and I don't care.
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35 - woo hoo!
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Thanks, John! Nice find, if very odd and theosophical (takes me back to my Arthur Edward Waite and Madame Blavatsky books).
Here's the part about Rex from the link John shared - including a Desert Song connection.
REX DUNN
Rex became a composer. He was rather feted at Point Loma. He was given the commission to compose the Ode to Peace; and had several of his works played during a recital by Dame Nellie Melba in 1917, at her special request. He stayed on at Point Loma for several years after his father died - but then sound came to the movies.
By 1929, Rex had moved to Hollywood and was composing music for Warner Brothers. Imdb has got a comprehensive list of his film scores. The list covers 1929 to 1948; however, Rex didn’t get his name on any film credits until the late 1940s. As well as composing, Rex did some conducting, and also some adaptation of scores already in existence for Warner Brothers’ purposes. The most notable of Rex’s adaptations was the score of the 1929 version of The Desert Song, from original music by Sigmund Romberg The film had very high production values - not only sound, but also several sequences in technicolour, and Myrna Loy at the outset of her long career.
Rex Dunn died in 1959.
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