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Forbstein was born in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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Leo Frank Forbstein
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He was attracted to music as a child, learning the violin at the age of four. In the mid-1920s, Forbstein relocated to Hollywood to head the symphony orchestra at Grauman"s Egyptian Theatre. He signed with Warner Brothers as one of the directors of its Vitaphone Orchestra, alongside Erno Rapee (then Warners" general music director), Louis Silvers, and David Mendoza.
Forbstein"s first screen cr was The Squall in 1929.
In 1931, Warners dismissed Rapee and Mendoza in a consolidation and economy move and Forbstein became the company"s general music director In 1936, Forbstein and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold were write-in candidates for the Oscar for Best Music, Score for their work on Captain Blood.
The following year, he was nominated officially for The Charge of the Light Brigade and Anthony Adverse, winning for the latter. He was nominated again for The Life of Emile Zola in 1938.
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