Steiner Set King Kong, Clark Gable to Music: Rainer File
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Max Steiner, composer of the quintessential American film score for “Gone With the Wind,” was born Maximilian Raoul Steiner in 1888, in Vienna. One of his earliest memories was sitting on Emperor Franz Joseph’s lap.
Steiner’s show-biz lineage was stellar: His grandfather was a powerful theater manager who convinced Johann Strauss to write “Die Fledermaus.”