Reginald Hazeltine Bassett


Reginald Hazeltine Bassett was an American composer and orchestrator who led a prolific career in film. He contributed music to over one hundred major movies from the 1920s to the 1940s. He is virtually unknown because he worked under a film studio system that not only controlled the copyrights to his music but also allowed others to take screen credit for his work.
Bassett worked collaboratively on film score compositions with other Hollywood composers from Ira Gershwin to Hugo Friedhofer:
In any event, Friedhofer talks at length about Bassett in his oral history, mentioning the scores on which he worked with him '' and Bassett's association with Forbstein's predecessor at Warner Bros., Lou Silvers.

Music department

  1. Delicious
  2. Igloo
  3. Bird of Paradise
  4. My Lips Betray
  5. Flying Down to Rio
  6. Midnight ; aka Call It Murder
  7. Chained
  8. Sequoia ... aka Malibu
  10. The Night Is Young
  11. Charlie Chan in Paris
  12. The Casino Murder Case
  13. Baby Face Harrington
  14. Uncivil Warriors
  15. One Frightened Night
  16. Charlie Chan in Egypt
  17. Mad Love ; aka The Hands of Orlac
  18. Undersea Kingdom
  19. Adventure in Manhattan ; aka Manhattan Madness
  20. The Garden of Allah
  22. Legion of Terror
  23. Theodora Goes Wild
  24. Stampede
  25. Two-Fisted Sheriff
  26. S.O.S. Coast Guard
  28. The Adventures of Robin Hood ; aka Robin Hood
  29. City Streets
  30. The Man They Could Not Hang
  33. Gone with the Wind
  34. The Yearling
  36. Beyond the Purple Hills
  37. The Big Gusher
  38. The Rough, Tough West
  39. ''Saginaw Trail''

Family

Reginald Hazeltine Bassett was born September 3, 1878, in Oakland, California, to the marriage of James Madison Bassett and Carrie Hazeltine. He was married three times.
  1. Bassett first married on January 22, 1905, in Monterey, California, to Alyse Lourdes Hunt, her first of four marriages. They divorced July 25, 1906, in San Francisco.
  2. Bassett married again on April 19, 1912, in Oakland, California, to Rosina E. McIntosh, her first of two marriages. They divorced in 1916 in San Francisco.
  3. Bassett then married on July 25, 1927, in Santa Ana, California, to Estelle Carlton Day, her third marriage. Estelle predeceased Reginald by days.