Edward Ward (April 3, 1900 – September 26, 1971) was an American

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Academy Award nominations

*1939 Best Original Song for "Always and Always" from ''

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'' *1942 Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture ('' Cheers for Miss Bishop'') *1942 Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture ('' Tanks a Million'') *1942 Best Scoring of a Musical Picture ('' All-American Co-Ed'') *1943 Best Original Song for "Pennies for Peppino" from ''

Flying with Music ''Flying with Music'' is a 1942 American musical film directed by George Archainbaud and written by Louis S. Kaye and M. Coates Webster. The film stars Marjorie Woodworth, George Givot, William Marshall, Edward Gargan, Jerry Bergen and Norma Va ...

'' *1943 Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (''

'') *1944 Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (''

Phantom of the Opera ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (french: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierr ...

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Additional credits

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No No Nanette ''No, No, Nanette'' is a musical comedy with lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, music by Vincent Youmans, and a book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, based on Mandel's 1919 Broadway play ''My Lady Friends''. The farcical story involves t ...

'' (1930) *'' Kismet'' (1930) *'' Great Expectations'' (1934) *'' The Bishop Misbehaves'' (1935) *''

The Mystery of Edwin Drood ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium ...

'' (1935) *''

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'' (1936) *'' Camille'' (1936) *''

The Gorgeous Hussy ''The Gorgeous Hussy'' is a 1936 American period film directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. The screenplay was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery and Ainsworth Morgan, which was based on a 1934 novel by Samuel ...

'' (1936) *''

Night Must Fall ''Night Must Fall'' is a play, a psychological thriller, by Emlyn Williams, first performed in 1935. There have been three film adaptations, '' Night Must Fall'' (1937); a 1954 adaptation on the television anthology series ''Ponds Theater'' sta ...

'' (1937) *'' Maytime'' (1937) *'' Saratoga'' (1937) *'' A Yank at Oxford'' (1938) *''

The Shopworn Angel ''The Shopworn Angel'' is a 1938 American drama film directed by H. C. Potter and starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Walter Pidgeon. The MGM release featured the second screen pairing of Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart followi ...

'' (1938) *'' Boys Town'' (1938) *'' The Women'' (1939) * Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves (1944) *''

The Babe Ruth Story ''The Babe Ruth Story'' is a 1948 biographical film of Babe Ruth, the famed New York Yankees slugger. It stars William Bendix (New York Yankee batboy in the 1920s) as the ballplayer and Claire Trevor as his wife Claire Merritt Hodgson. Critic ...

'' (1948) *'' Man of a Thousand Faces'' (1957)

References

External links

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Edward Ward papers, 1891–1961
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