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Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for... such noteworthy films as The Sand Pebbles, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Chinatown, The Wind and the Lion, The Omen, The Boys from Brazil, Alien, Poltergeist, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Rudy, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, The Mummy, three Rambo films, and five Star Trek films. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards, nine Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, and seventeen Academy Awards. In 1977 he was awarded an Oscar for The Omen. He collaborated with some of the most prolific directors in film history, including Robert Wise , Howard Hawks , Otto Preminger , Joe Dante , Roman Polanski , Ridley Scott , Steven Spielberg , and Paul Verhoeven . However, his most notable collaboration was arguably that with Franklin J.
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Columbia Ranch is located in Burbank, California and is now called Warner Ranch . It was the backdrop for many of the Columbia Pictures movies and Screen Gems television shows, including Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, High Noon, The Wild One, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Three Stooges, The... Monkees, Bewitched, Here Come the Brides, The Partridge Family and Hazel, just to name of a few. The Ranch started in 1934, as a 40-acre plot purchased by Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures Corporation. The Studio, with its headquarters located at Sunset & Gower, in Hollywood, made numerous movies, but had to rent neighboring movie studios 'Back-lots' for outdoor shooting due to the lack of space at the Sunset lot. By the end of 1934 this problem was solved as Columbia had acquired a 40-acre lot on the other side of the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, at the corner of Hollywood Way and Oak Street, on what is said to have been the Burbank Motion Pictures Stables. It was the perfect "Back-Lot" as it was still rural enough to be landscaped as the studio needed it to be.
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