Larry Adler Overview:

Actress, Larry Adler, was born Lawrence Cecil Adler on Feb 10, 1914 in Baltimore, MD. Adler died at the age of 87 on Aug 6, 2001 in London, UK .

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Although Adler was nominated for one Oscar, she never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1954Best Music - ScoringGenevieve (1953)N/ANominated
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He said on his tour in Australia, that George Gershwin felt that Rhapsody in Blue had been written for him after hearing how well the song sounded when Larry played it on his harmonica. He always wished he could perform it in public with Gershwin and then realized he could despite Gershwin's death because he had an old recording made of Gershwin playing the piece which he then got transferred to a keyboard. This performance of him with Gershwin's recorded version can be heard on the Live in Australia CD.

Was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the soundtrack of Genevieve (1953), though he was originally kept off the credits because of a McCarthy blacklisting.

It took 31 years after the Oscar nomination of the Genevieve score before the committee finally sent him his certificate of nomination.

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