William Ripley Dorr

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Also Known As
  • The St. Luke's Choristers
  • Saint Luke's Choristers
  • St. Luke's Choristers
  • Dorr's Saint Luke's Choristers
  • St. Luke's Episcopal Church Choristers
  • Ripley Dorr

William Ripley Dorr

Biography

William Ripley Dorr was an American music conductor who organized the St. Luke's Episcopal Church Choristers in 1930 in Long Beach, California, USA. The choir appeared or audio performed in dozens of Hollywood films from 1935 to 1951.


Credits

A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol (1938) Character: Singers of 'Adeste Fideles' (uncredited)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
The Prince and the Pauper The Prince and the Pauper (1937) Character: Choir (as St. Luke's Choristers)
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Babes on Broadway Babes on Broadway (1941) Character: Church Choir (uncredited)
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
Mrs. Miniver Mrs. Miniver (1942) Character: Choir (uncredited)
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Random Harvest Random Harvest (1942) Character: Church Singers (uncredited)
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
San Francisco San Francisco (1936) Character: Choir (uncredited)
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities (1935) Character: Background Singers (uncredited)
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
The Great Caruso The Great Caruso (1951) Character: Vocal Ensemble (uncredited)
Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.



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