Louis St. Louis
Currently no information available.Worked on some Hollywood, CA, films including 'Grease (1978) and on 'Grease 2 (1982). He supplied some music for the 1975 film 'The Wild Party', and also contributed some songs for the 1981 film 'The Fan'.

Andrew B. Sterling
b. 1874d. 1955
Currently no information available.
1898 "My Old New Hampshire Home", music by Harry Von Tilzer.
1899 "I'de Leave My Happy Home For You", music H. Von Tilzer. This was a novelty type 'coon' song. It is the thought to be the first known use of the "oo-oo" in a song. (The tune made vauevillian Blanche Ring famous, an vice-versa.)
1904 "Meet Me In St. Louis", Kerry Mills music. Written for the opening of the St. Louis World Exposition.
1909 "On a Sunday Afternoon", Music Von Tilzer.

Ted Stern
Currently no information available.
Operating at the turn of the century (1900), Ted Stern was one of the composers with whom a young Irving Berlin worked as lyricist.
Among his songs are:
1909 "Next To Your Mother, Who Do You Love?", lyric Berlin.
1910 "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon", lyric Berlin.
.... "Kiss Me My Honey, Kiss Me", lyric Berlin.

Joseph W. Stern
b. Jan. 11, 1870, New York, NY, USA. d. Mar. 31, 1934, Long Island, NY, USA.
The success of the team of Joseph Stern and his lyricist Edward B. Marks is based on two songs, "The Little Lost Child" and "My Mother Was a Lady". The stories of how these two songs came to be written is interesting.

Stern, the son of a well to do New York Tie manufacturer, attended New York City public schools. After graduation, he worked as a tie salesman. With no musical training, he "played the piano with one hand, and faked the other hand." (his own quote.) His very first song was the start of a music publishing and composing career, with his friend, Edward B. Marks.

Marks, a traveling button salesman, had a knack of writing lyrics. One day, he read a newspaper story about little lost girl who was found by a policeman that turned out to be her long-lost father. Marks wrote some verses for a ballad, and then asked his friend, Stern, the traveling tie salesman, to write the music. They called the song "The Little Lost Girl". When no publisher accepted the song, they set up their own publishing firm, Joseph Stern & Co., on 14th Street, in New York. In 1894, they published the song.

Della Fox, a musical actress, introduced the song on the stage. Later, an electrician devised a method of flashing slides onto a stage screen, and with the help of William Fox, who had a slide exchange on 14th Street, the slides were used with the words of the ballad flashed beneath the various slides, the first such use of slides. Several million copies of the sheet music for "The Little Lost Child" were sold. Thus was the songwriting reputation of 'Stern and Marks' built.

Following this hit, the team wrote a couple of more songs, not successfully.
1894 "His Last Thoughts Were of You"
1895 "No One Ever Loved More Than I"

Then, lightning struck again, with another huge hit, "My Mother Was a Lady". Stern and Marks were having supper in a 14th Street restaurant, when they observed a customer berating the waitress, who burst into tears exclaiming "My Mother was a lady." She also assured the patron that he would not have dared to insult her, if her brother Jack had been present. That was more than sufficient material for Ed Mark's vivid imagination. That day, he set down the verses for a new ballad, but with a little twist to the tale. The patron turned out to be Jack's true lifelong friend, who suffering great remorse, offers to marry the waitress.

Published in 1895, "My Mother Was A Lady" was sung by Meyer Cohen in the Tony Pastor Music Hall on 14th Street. Later, Lottie Gilson sang the song on the vaudeville circuits. Once again, millions of copies of the sheet music was sold, with 'my mother was a lady' becoming a popular slang expression of the day.

The vaudevillian, Lottie Gilson, helped to popularize other Stern and Marks tunes, among which were:
"Games We Used to Play"
"I Don't Blame You, Tom"
Stern and Marks wrote some other ballads, such as "The Old Postmaster"; "Teacher and Boy", and "Don't Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve", all written before the turn of the century.

After 1900, Stern wrote very little, devoting his full time to publishing. In 1920, he went into retirement. He died at his home in Brightwater, Long Island, NY, USA in 1934, at age 64.

Bernard Stevens
b: 1916 d: 1983.
Stevens served in the British Armed forces during World War 2. In 1947, shortly after his discharge, he scored three films and then stopped. The three films were The Upturned Glass (starred James Mason), The Mark of Cain (starred Eric Portman), and Once A Jolly Swagman (his last).

Mason, who was also the director of The Upturned Glass, had personally chosen Stevens and the two got along famously. But his next endeavor, The Mark of Cain was a rather unhappy experience due to his being at odds with that film's director. In the film score, Stevens used the fairly well known "Songs of the Auvergne". (Earlier, William Walton had also used the "Songs of the Auvergne" in his score for the English film 'Henry V'.) His score for Once a Jolly Swagman was his final work for the film studios.

His two symphonies, the violin and cello concertos on the Meridian Label, his string quartets on the Unicorn label, and his Marco Polo CD release of the Piano Concerto are excellent examples of his musical abilities. His widow was active in reviving interest in his music.

Al Stillman
b. June 26, 1906, New York, NY, USA. d. February 17, 1979, New York, New York, USA.
Overview
A graduate of New York University, Stillman's first began his career as a writer. He was able to find work contributing to newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams newspaper column.In 1933, was hired as a staff writer for the famed New York city theatre, 'Radio City Music Hall', a position he held for the next 40 years.

During the 1940s and '50s, he contributed some music to the Hollywood studios. Among the films on which he worked, were:
1942 - Captains of the Clouds (he was uncredited, but wrote the song "Bless Em All")
1947 - Carnival in Costa Rica (He wrote the songs "Costa Rica" and "Say Si Si")
1954 - The Long, Long Trailer (song: "Cui Cui")
1955 - I'll Cry Tomorrow (film again used his song "Cui Cui")
1957 - Lizzie (he composed the song "It's Not For Me To Say")

Stillman collaborated with several well known composers, including Arthur Schwartz, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Robert Allen, Fred Ahlert, Percy Faith, and Paul McGrane. McGrane is perhaps best recalled as the co-composer "Juke Box Saturday Night" as shown above, but as "Paul McGrane And His Bearcats", he led the Pit orchestra for the original Broadway show "The Boy Friend". In additon to the show music background, they also had a spot with "Carnival Tango".

Most active in the 1940's and '50's, among this lyricist's best remembered songs are:
"The Breeze and I" (1940, Music by Ernesto Lecuona)
"I Believe" (1952, written with: Ervin M. Drake, Irvin Graham, and Jimmy Shirl)
"Chances Are", (1957, music: Robert Allen. Johnny Mathis hit)
"It's Not For Me to Say" (music: Robert Allen.)
"Moments to Remember" (1955, Music-Robert Allen)
"Home for the Holidays", (music: Robert Allen. A huge Perry Como hit release -still played during the Christmas holiday.)
"You Alone" (Music by Robert Allen)
"And That Reminds Me (Dear, of You)" (aka: "My Heart Reminds Me". written with: Camillo Bargoni, Dante Panzuti, and Paul Siegel.)
"Baby, Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (with Jimmy Mundy music. A big Frank Sinatra hit. )
"Bless 'em All" (with Fred Godfrey, Frank Kerslake, and James Lally, -- a World War II song)
"When I Am With You", (music: Benjamin Weisman. A Johnny Mathis hit.)
"In Spain They Say Si Si" (with Francia Luban, and Music by Ernesto Lecuona)
"(Do I Love You) No, Not Much" (1956, music: Robert Allen.)
"Mama Yo Quiero" (written with Jararaca and Vincente Paiva. Xavier Cugat Orchestra hit, and others.)
"Jukebox Saturday Night" (1942, music: Paul McGrane -Glenn Miller Orch., and the Pied Pipers vocal group hit.)
"My Heart Reminds Me" (with Camillo Bargoni, Dante Panzuti, and Paul Siegel. (A hit for singers Vicki Carr, Kay Starr, Julie London, "Della Reese, Dean Martin, among others.)

Georgie Stoll
b. May 7, 1905, Minneapolis, MN, USA,d. 1985
Overview
Georgie's early experience came in the recording studios and radio stations. Called to Hollywood, he orchestrated many MGM Musicals from the late 1930's on. He won an Academy Award for his 1945 score of 'Anchors Aweigh'.

Among his films are:
1937 Broadway Melody of 1938
1939 Babes In Arms, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney starred.
1940 Strike Up The Band, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney starred.
1941 Ziegfeld Girl
1942 For Me and My Gal, Starred Gene Kelly.
1943 Cabin In The Sky
1945 Meet Me In St. Louis, Judy Garland starred.
Music For Millions
Anchors Aweigh
1949 The Kissing Bandit
1950 The Toast of New Orleans
1954 The Student Prince
1956 Meet Me In Las Vegas
1962 Jumbo
1963 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1964 Viva Las Vegas
1965 Girl Happy
1966 Made In Paris

Morris Stoloff
b. 1893, Philadelphia, PA, USA. d. 1980
Overview
This violinist was a child prodigy. He played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic before becoming a concert master, in 1928, with a Paramount Pictures orchestra. In 1936, he was Music Director with Columbia Pictures, and later, in the early 1940's, became head of the music department. Among the Academy Awards that Stoloff won for his orchestrations are: 1944's 'Cover Girl'; 1946's 'The Jolson Story' and in 1960, 'Song Without End'.

Among his many film credits are:
1936 Craig's Wife
1937 The Awful Truth
1944 Cover Girl, Starred Rita Hayworth.
1945 A Song To Remember
1946 Gilda, Starred Rita Hayworth.
The Jolson Story
1950 Born Yesterday, starred Judy Holliday.
1953 From Here To Eternity, starred William Holden.
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.
1955 The Long Gray Line
My Sister Eileen, starred Rosalind Russell.
1956 Picnic
The Eddie Duchin Story, starred Tyrone Power.
1957 Pal Joey, starred Frank Sinatra 1960 Song Without End
1961 Fanny
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1965 None But The Brave
1967 The Naked Runner

Mike Stoller
b. March 13, 1933, Belle Harbor, NY, USA.
See Jerry Leiber entry. For more information on his partner in this very talented team of composers.
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller have been called the founding fathers of Rock 'n' Roll. Both were born in 1933. Leiber, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, grew up on the edge of Baltimore's Black ghetto, while Stoller was raised in New York city (Queens borough), where, as a child, he learned the basics of Blues and boogie-woogie from Black kids at summer camp. Classically trained, Stoller was already playing with dance bands while still in college. In the summer of 1950, the Stoller and Leiber families both moved to Los Angeles, and the two teenagers met for the first time. They soon began writing songs that reflected their shared love of Black pop music; Leiber writing the sharp-witted lyrics, Stoller the catchy music. Only a few months later, Jimmy Witherspoon recorded and performed their "Real Ugly Woman" in concert. It was their first hit.

In the early 1950s, their music changed from R&B to rock, best exemplified with their song "Hound Dog". In 1953, the tune was originally released by Big Mama Thornton, but three years later, when covered by Elvis Presley, it became something altogether different. In 1953, during the pre-rock stage of their career, they had formed their first label, 'Spark Records', later purchased by 'Atlantic Records, who had hired Leiber and Stoller as independent producers.At Atlantic they re-vitalized the careers of 'The Drifters' and continued to turn out hits for 'The Coasters'. Among the hits they penned at this time included "Smokey Joe's Cafe," "Riot in Cell Block #9," "Charlie Brown," "Stand By Me," "Save the Last Dance for Me," and "On Broadway" (for 'the Drifters'), among many others (for 'The Coasters' alone. they wrote 24 songs, all of which appeared on the national charts). Still other of their hits during this era included, "Love Potion No. 9" (for 'The Clovers'), "Kansas City" (Wilbert Harrison), "Ruby Baby" (for Dion) and "Stand By Me" (Ben E. King). Virtually every hit recorded by 'The Coasters' vocal group was composed by Liebler and Stoller, including "Searchin'", "Young Blood", "Charlie Brown", "Yakety Yak", and "Poison Ivy". Elvis Presley recorded over 20 of their songs including "Jailhouse Rock", "Treat Me Nice", and "'You're So Square Baby I Don't Care").

In the late 1950s and early '60s, the team returned to New York, and opened shop in the famed 'Brill Building', that city's "Tin Pan Alley". In addition to songwriting, they also became producers taking the young producer Phil Spector under their wing. Now in 1964, Leiber and Stoller founded, and briefly owned, Red Bird Records, which issued 'The Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" and 'The Dixie Cups' "Chapel of Love." (Jeff Barry and his wife Elie Greenwich were two of the writers hired by Leiber and Stoller, for the Red Bird label.)

After selling 'Red Bird' Leiber and Stoller again worked as independent producers and continued to write songs. Their best known song from this period is "Is That All There Is?," recorded by Peggy Lee in 1969. They won Grammy awards for "Is That All There Is?" and for the cast album of the 1995 Broadway musical 'Smokey Joe's Cafe', based on their work.

Today (2005) they remain two of the truly distinctive, and defining creators of mid-20th century Pop music.

Richard Stone
b. 1954, Philadelphia, PA, USA. d. March 8, 2001, West Hills, CA, USA. (pancreatic cancer)
Exposed to music through his father, who played the piano, and his maternal grandfather, a music critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stone, who's family also included a brother, David, and a sister, Bonnie, grew up watching "Looney Tunes" cartoons. He studied cello and music theory at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute and at Indiana University. In 1980, he moved to California and first found work as a music editor for Maurice Jarre and other composers, and then scored several movies, including the cult classics "Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat", and "Pumpkinhead"

Today. he is best remembered as a composer of Cartoon Music (winning several Emmy's for his work). Stone became the modern-day successor of legendary composer Carl Stalling, who, from the late 1930s to the 1950s had written hundreds of wacky musical scores for such Warner Bros. classics as "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies". Stone even composed on the same studio Steinway piano and conducted on the same stage that Stalling used.

He revived the Stalling tradition of a full orchestra, with music synchronized to the characters' movements; while employing musical effects to convey the Warner Bros. brand of cartoon humor, --witty without being cute. He once told the Daily Variety "I always try to keep the Stalling language going. If something falls without a piano glissando, it doesn't fall. We still use the xylophone for an eye blink and we still play 'The Lady in Red' when a character wears a red dress. We do this to honor Carl Stalling, but also to keep conversant with the Warner Bros. tradition."

Even so, Stone's cartoon music did incorporate other styles, including rock 'n' roll, Jazz, country and show tunes, and, along the way, won won seven Emmys, while composing for over 20 films. He also composed the themes for "Road Rovers", "Pinky and the Brain", "The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries", and "Taz-Mania". He was only 47 years old when he died of Pancreatic Cancer.

Herbert Stothart
b. Sept. 11, 1885, Milwaukee, WI, USA, d. 1949, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Overview
This University of Wisconsin graduate began composing for the schools Varsity Shows. Be began composing for Broadway in the early 1920's. Herb's first big success came when he and Rudolf Friml co-composed the score of 'Rose Marie'. His film career began In 1928 when he wrote his first film score when he provided the music for the American presentation of the Russian Film 'The End of St. Petersburg'. Stothart went on to score or to orchestrate a great many MGM films. Most of his hits were written by the early 1930's. He won an Academy Award for his original score of 'The Wizard of Oz'.

Perhaps, his most famous songs are 1928's "I Wanna Be Loved by You," and 1931's "Cuban Love Song."

In 1947, after recovering from severe cardiac arrest, he composed "heart Attack: A Symphonic Poem". Two years later, he died of cancer.

Among his films are:
1928 Rose Marie
1930 Gay Madrid
Madam Satan
The Rogue Story
1931 New Moon
1933 Rasputin and the Empress
1934 Queen Christina
Viva Villa!
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Merry Widow, Jeanette MacDonald; Maurice Chevalier starred.
1935 David Copperfield
Naughty Marietta, Jeanette MacDonald; Nelson Eddy starred.
Anna Karenina, Greta Garbo starred.
Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Laughton and Clark Gable stars.
A Night At The Opera, The Marx Brothers comedy.
Ah Wilderness!
A Tale of Two Cities, Ronald Coleman starred.
1936 Rose Marie, Jeanette MacDonald; Nelson Eddy starred.
San Francisco, Jeanette MacDonald; Clark Gable starred.
1937 Camille, Greta Garbo starred.
The Good Earth, Louis Rainer starred.
Maytime, Jeanette MacDonald starred.
Romeo and Juliet
Conquest
The Firefly
1938 The Girl of The Golden West, Jeanette MacDonald starred.
Marie Antoinette
Sweethearts, Jeanette MacDonald; Nelson Eddy starred.
1939 Idiot's Delight
The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland starred.
1940 Waterloo Bridge
New Moon, Jeanette MacDonald; Nelson Eddy starred.
Bitter Sweet
1941 Ziegfeld Girl
1942 Rio Rita
Mrs. Miniver, starred Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
1943 Random Harvest
1944 Thousands Cheer
Madame Curie
1945 National Velvet
They Were Expendable
1946 The Green Years, starred Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
1947 The Yearling
1948 The Three Musketeers
1949 Big Jack

Alma M. Sanders
Currently no information.
Alma Sanders has been credited with being the very first woman to compose a full Broadway musical score (with her husband, Monte Carlo -his real name). The seven shows she/they composed are:
Louisiana Lady, -W&M: by Alma M. Sanders/Monte Carlo; June 2, 1947 - June 4, 1947
Mystery Moon, -W&M: by Alma M. Sanders/Monte Carlo; June 23, 1930 - (unknown)
Oh! Oh! Oh! Nurse, -W&M: by Alma M. Sanders/Monte Carlo; Dec. 7, 1925 - (unknown)
Princess April, -W&M: by Alma M. Sanders/Monte Carlo; Dec. 1, 1924 - (unknown)
Bye, Bye, Barbara, -W&M: by Alma M. Sanders/Monte Carlo; Aug. 25, 1924 - Sep 6, 1924
The Chiffon Girl, -W&M: by Alma M. Sanders/Monte Carlo; Feb. 19, 1924 - May 17, 1924
Elsie, -W&M: by Alma M. Sanders/Monte Carlo; April 2, 1923 - May 5, 1923
However, since none of her shows have achieved any lasting fame, perhaps credit for the honor of being first female Broadway Musical score composer should belong to Kay Swift, although both ladies did the scores in collaboration with their husbands; Alma Sanders with her husband Monte Carlo, and Kay Swift with her husband Paul James (Warburg).

Among the individual songs that the couple composed are:

"Dinny Danny; The Irish Yacki Hula", Words & Music: Alma Sanders & Monte Carlo

"Silver Sands Of Love; Naughty Hawaii", Words: Jack Jellen & Alma Sanders. Music: Monte Carlo & Louis Breau

"That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone", Alma Sanders and Monte Carlo, music; Richard W. Pascoe, lyrics.

"Every Tear Is a Smile in an Irishman's Heart",Alma Sanders and Monte Carlo with Daniel Sullivan Publ'd: Harry

Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co. - 1919

"Ten Baby Fingers" - Alma Sanders & Monte Carlo with Harry Edelheit. Publ'd: AJ Stasny Music Co. - 1920

"Falling Rose Leaves", - Alma Sanders and Monte Carlo

"My Love Of Long Ago", music and lyrics by Alma Sanders and Monte Carlo

"Little Town in the Old County Down", by Richard W. Pascoe, and Monte Carlo/Alma Sanders. One of Frank

McCormick's hits. 1921

"Elsie". Carlo and Sanders (w & m Monte Carlo and Alma Sanders). Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York: 1923.

From show: Elsie.

"Red River". Carlo & Sanders (w & m Monte Carlo and Alma Sanders). Harms Inc., 8294-4. New York: 1928. From

show:the House-boat on the Styx

"Till End Of Time". Carlo & Sanders (w & m Monte Carlo and Alma Sanders). Jerome H. Remick & Co.,. New York:

1924. From show:The Chiffon Girl

Leith Stevens
b. Sept. 13, 1909, Mount Moriah, MO, USA, d. July 23, 1970, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
At just age 11, this child prodigy was already professionally working as piano accompanist to Kansas City singers. (He was raised in Kansas City, MO.) When he was just 16, he was already leading orchestras in Kansas City.

In 1927, he earned a Fellowship from New York city's prestigious Julliard School of Music, and then found work as a pianist with the Chicago Opera Company. In 1930, he joined CBS Radio as conductor/arranger. In 1939, re-located to Hollywood, where he worked as composer/conductor for actor Edward G. Robinson's radio program 'Big Town'. In 1942, working for RKO, he scored his first film "Syncopation". Part of that score later became known as "American Rhapsody", and for a while was a popular concert piece.

During WWII, Stevens, worked as a civilian employee of the U. S. Office, serving as radio director for SOPAC (SOuth PACific) area command. When the war ended, Stevens returned to the Hollywood studios and was a prolific composer of Film and TV scores (over 100 scores). He was one of the founders of the 'Composers and Lyricists Guild of America' serving as its president for eight years.

During his career, nominated three times for Academy Awards:
1956 for Music Best Song: "Julie"
1959 for Music Scoring of a Musical Picture): The Five Pennies
1963 for Music Scoring of Music Adaptation or Treatment): A New Kind Of Love

Sadly, at age 60, he died of a massive heart attack just minutes after learning his wife, Elizabeth, had died in a traffic accident.

Robert Stoltz
b. August 25, 1880, Graz, Styria, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Austria), d. June 27, 1975, Berlin, Germany.
né: Robert Elisabeth Stolz
songwriter, conductor, composer (operettas and film music).
Stotz was born into a musical family. His father was a conductor and his mother a concert pianist, and Robert was a great-nephew of the soprano Teresa Stolz, As a young man, he studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Robert Fuchs and Englebert Humperdinck.

In 1899,he was conducting at Marburg (now called Maribor), followed by positions at Salzburg and Brno. In 1907, he succeeded Artur Bodanzky at the 'Theater an der Wien', where in 1908 he conducted, among other pieces, the first performance of Oscar Straus's "Der Tapfere Soldat" ("The Chocolate Soldier"), In 1910, he left and became a freelance composer and conductor. He was now also beginning to compose operettas and songs.

During World War I, Stolz served in the Austrian Army. With the end of the war, he resumed his career, devoting himself mainly to cabaret. In 1925, he moved to Berlin, Germany. Circa 1930, he started to compose music for films, most notably for the first German sound film "Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt" ("Two Hearts in 3/4 Time"). He wrote the now famous title song on the back of a menu while lunching with the show's producer. Interestingly, due to his film work, some of his earlier compositions, such as "Adieu, Mein Kleiner Gardeoffizier" ("Goodbye My Little Soldier" -- from his operetta "Die lustigen Weiber von Wien"), also became known to wider audiences.

The rise of Nazi party in Germany led Stolz to return to Vienna, where his title-song for the film 'Ungeküsst Soll Man Nicht Schlafen Gehn' was a hit, Then came the Austrian Anschluss. With the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, and the outbreak of World War II, Robert Stolz fled first to Zürich, and then to Paris, France. He was now nearly sixty years old. After arriving in Paris, his (fourth) wife, left him for a younger French lover. In 1939. the French government interned him as an enemy alien. He had neither money nor identification papers. However, with the help of friends he was released and in 1940 made his way to New York. How that came about is interesting.

At the time, a 19 year-old daughter of a French banker, Yvonne Louise Ulrich, was studying in Paris for her law degree. She soon became known as 'Die Einzige' or 'Einze', ("The Only One") because of her financial aid to destitute artists and emigrants. It was not long after a chance encounter with Robert Stolz in a Paris coffee house that she learned Stoltz had been interned, together with 70,000 others, in a soccer stadium. "Einzi" paid several thousand francs as a bribe for Robert Stolz'z freedom. She subsequently nursed him back to health, arranged a Hollywood contract, -and then married him. The marriage lasted for thirty-five years. All told, Stoltz was married 5 times. His first wife was Lilli ? (dates unknown, ending in divorce), next was Franzi Ressel (? - 1923, ending in divorce), then he married Josephine Zernitz (1923 - 1924, ending in divorce when she married a younger French lover), and then he married Yvonne Louise Ulrich (1946 - June 27, 1975 his demise)

In America, Stolz was soon composing music for shows and films, for which he received two Academy Award nominations. In 1941, "Waltzing in the Clouds" was nominated for Best Original Song, and in 1945, his score for 'It Happened Tomorrow' was nominated for Best Dramatic or Comedy Picture Score. In 1946, Stolz returned to Vienna, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Stoltz passed away in Berlin, Germany, and then received the honor of a lying-in-state in the foyer of the Vienna State Opera House. He was buried near Johannes Brahms and Johann Strauss II in Vienna's Zentralfriedhof and a statue to him was erected in the Wiener Stadtpark.

Among the Operettas that he composed are:
       Das Glücksmädel (1910)
       Der Tanz ins Glück (1921 -"The Dance into Happiness")
       Im Weißen Rößl (1930 -"The White Horse Inn", co-composed with Ralph Benatzky)
       Wenn die Kleinen Veilchen Blühen (1932 "When the Little Violets Bloom")
       Der Verlorene Walzer, (1933, a stage version of the film "Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt" - "Two Hearts In Three Quarter Time")

Among the Songs he composed are:
       "Servus Du" (1912)
       "Wien Wird Erst schön bei Nacht"
       "Im Prater Blühn Wieder die Bäume"
       "Das Ist Der Frühling in Wien"
       "Du, Du, Du Sollst der Kaiser Meiner Seele Sein." (1916)
       "Hallo, Du Süsse Klingelfee" (1919)
       "Salome, Schönste Blume des Morgenlands"
       "Ich Will Deine Kameradin Sein"