Mischa Spoliansky

MISCHA SPOLIANSKY d1985. Russian-born composer who made his name writing cabaret and revue songs in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early 1930s, before he was forced to emigrate to London in 1933 when Hitler rose to power. He stayed in Britain for the rest of his life, re-inventing himself as a composer of film scores. In 1950, Hitchcock remembered Spoliansky and hired him to write the song "Love Is Lyrical (Whisper Sweet Little Nothing to Me)" performed by Marlene Dietrich in the film Stage Fright. In later years he composed scores for films including ; Trouble in Store (1953) / Saint Joan (1957) / The Whole Truth (1958) / North West Frontier (1959) / The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965) / The Best House in London (1969) and Hitler The Last Ten Days (1973)