It is possible that Can-Can music in the scene was adapted by David Buttolph using Offenbach as the inspiration for it.Hello!
I only thought of Offenbach because they do the can can dance later. I listened to the entire can can suite from an mp3 I had and I don't think Offenbach is correct. I found a PDF of the original film script. It only identifies that music as "period music". I'm also aware that sometimes Hollywood created their own incidental music so they didn't have to pay royalties.
There are a few Three Stooges shorts from the 1930's that play a "march". I have tried for years to find out who wrote it. Eventually I heard from someone who said that march had no name, and was just called "The Three Stooges March". It was performed by the Columbia Studios orchestra.
I feed myself off of all this silly trivia. Please indulge me!!! Thanks. -charley
It may have been the can can was still just in copyright at the time of filming, hard to know.
Finding any citable info on the uncredited aspects of these old films is difficult.
There is this in the The encyclopedia of film composers by Thomas S Hischak, hopefully its readable not much info
on the house of wax.
Statistics: Posted by Rara — Sun Jan 05, 2025 9:01 pm