
Sound
Born November 17, 1899 in Westmount, Québec, Canada
Douglas Graham Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian-American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures. He won seven Academy Awards for his work. In 2008, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Douglas began his journey into cinema by studying experimental electricity at Northern Electric Company before joining MGM in 1925. Initially exploring lighting and cameras, he pivoted to sound when the era of sound pictures emerged in 1928. He pioneered synchronizing musical soundtracks with film scenes, notably in the groundbreaking "The Broadway Melody," which won the 1929 Oscar for Best Picture. As head of MGM's sound department until his retirement, Shearer revolutionized sound recording, winning an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording for "The Big House." His groundbreaking work at MGM significantly enhanced the technical aspects of filmmaking. His legacy was recognized even in death, receiving a front-page obituary in The New York Times—an honour typically reserved for industry giants and heads of state.

Her Twelve Men

M-G-M Jubilee Overture

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Valley of the Kings

Executive Suite

Tennessee Champ

Rose Marie

The Great Diamond Robbery

Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor

Escape from Fort Bravo

Easy to Love

Kiss Me Kate

All the Brothers Were Valiant

Give a Girl a Break

Take the High Ground!

The Actress

Big Leaguer

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

The Band Wagon

Ride, Vaquero!

Dream Wife

Dangerous When Wet

Julius Caesar

Capriccio Italien

Young Bess

Scandal at Scourie

Remains to Be Seen

Small Town Girl

Jeopardy

The Girl Who Had Everything

The Story of Three Loves

I Love Melvin

Confidentially Connie

Lili

Battle Circus

The Naked Spur

The Bad and the Beautiful

Million Dollar Mermaid

Desperate Search

Everything I Have Is Yours

The Merry Widow

Fearless Fagan

Holiday for Sinners

Shadow in the Sky

Pat and Mike

Glory Alley

Skirts Ahoy!

The Girl in White

Scaramouche

Young Man with Ideas

Carbine Williams

Talk About a Stranger

Singin' in the Rain

Love Is Better Than Ever

The Belle of New York

Invitation

The Wild North

Westward the Women

Too Young to Kiss

Callaway Went Thataway

Quo Vadis

Angels in the Outfield

Texas Carnival

The Red Badge of Courage

An American in Paris

The Strip

The Tall Target

The Law and the Lady

Show Boat

Kind Lady

The Painted Hills

The Great Caruso

Father's Little Dividend

Soldiers Three

Cause for Alarm!

Royal Wedding

Three Guys Named Mike

Grounds for Marriage

Pagan Love Song

The Magnificent Yankee

Watch the Birdie

Kim

Two Weeks with Love

King Solomon's Mines

To Please a Lady

Right Cross

Summer Stock

Devil's Doorway

Duchess of Idaho

Three Little Words

Crisis

Mystery Street

The Big Hangover

Shadow on the Wall

Father of the Bride

Annie Get Your Gun

Please Believe Me

The Asphalt Jungle

Stars in My Crown

The Reformer and the Redhead

The Yellow Cab Man

Black Hand

Nancy Goes to Rio

The Outriders

On the Town

Tension

Intruder in the Dust

Adam's Rib

Battleground

That Forsyte Woman

Challenge to Lassie

Border Incident

Madame Bovary

In the Good Old Summertime

The Great Sinner

Neptune's Daughter

The Stratton Story

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Secret Garden

Little Women

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Act of Violence

The Three Musketeers

Julia Misbehaves

A Date with Judy

Easter Parade

The Pirate

Summer Holiday

Big City

Good News

Killer McCoy

Desire Me

Song of Love

The Unfinished Dance

Cynthia

Song of the Thin Man

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Hucksters

Dark Delusion

Living in a Big Way

The Sea of Grass

Undercover Maisie

The Arnelo Affair

Green Dolphin Street

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

The Secret Heart

Lady in the Lake

The Yearling

Till the Clouds Roll By

Undercurrent

Courage of Lassie

A Letter for Evie

Two Sisters from Boston

Two Smart People

Bad Bascomb

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Hoodlum Saint

Up Goes Maisie

The Harvey Girls

She Went to the Races

Week-End at the Waldorf

The Hidden Eye

Ziegfeld Follies

Dangerous Partners

Twice Blessed

Thrill of a Romance

Son of Lassie

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Main Street After Dark

The Great Morgan
Douglas Shearer (uncredited)

The Thin Man Goes Home

Music for Millions

Gentle Annie

Meet Me in St. Louis

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Mrs. Parkington

Kismet

Maisie Goes to Reno

The Canterville Ghost

Bathing Beauty

The White Cliffs of Dover

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Gaslight

An American Romance

Rationing

See Here, Private Hargrove

A Guy Named Joe

Swing Fever

Swing Shift Maisie

Thousands Cheer

The Man from Down Under

Bataan

Above Suspicion

Cabin in the Sky

The Human Comedy

Andy Hardy's Double Life

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

For Me and My Gal

Eyes in the Night

Panama Hattie

Cairo

Calling Dr. Gillespie

Her Cardboard Lover

Mrs. Miniver

Maisie Gets Her Man

Tortilla Flat

Tarzan's New York Adventure

Grand Central Murder

Fingers at the Window

Kid Glove Killer

Mokey

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Nazi Agent

Dr. Kildare's Victory

Two-Faced Woman

Kathleen

Johnny Eager

Tarzan's Secret Treasure

Shadow of the Thin Man

Married Bachelor

The Feminine Touch

Honky Tonk

Lady Be Good

When Ladies Meet

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Blossoms in the Dust

Whistling in the Dark

Love Crazy

I'll Wait for You

A Woman's Face

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

Ziegfeld Girl

Washington Melodrama

Rage in Heaven

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Blonde Inspiration

Come Live with Me

The Wild Man of Borneo

Maisie Was a Lady

Comrade X

Go West

The Philadelphia Story

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self

Dulcy

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

Boom Town

The Golden Fleecing

I Love You Again

Pride and Prejudice

Gold Rush Maisie

We Who Are Young

Sporting Blood

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Susan and God

Waterloo Bridge

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

Strange Cargo

Northwest Passage

Congo Maisie

The Shop Around the Corner

The Earl of Chicago

Judge Hardy and Son

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Henry Goes Arizona

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Another Thin Man

Ninotchka

At the Circus

Babes in Arms

Fast and Furious

Thunder Afloat

The Women

The Wizard of Oz

Miracles for Sale

They All Come Out

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

On Borrowed Time

Stronger Than Desire

Maisie

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Tell No Tales

6,000 Enemies

Calling Dr. Kildare

The Hardys Ride High

The Kid From Texas

Broadway Serenade

The Ice Follies of 1939

Fast and Loose

Honolulu

Idiot's Delight

Sweethearts

The Girl Downstairs

Dramatic School

Out West with the Hardys

The Shining Hour

Spring Madness

The Great Waltz

Young Dr. Kildare

Vacation from Love

Too Hot to Handle

Boys Town

Three Loves Has Nancy

Marie Antoinette

The Chaser

Love Finds Andy Hardy

Fast Company

Paradise for Three

Three Comrades

Test Pilot

Judge Hardy's Children

The First Hundred Years

Arsène Lupin Returns

Of Human Hearts

Mannequin

Love Is a Headache

Man-Proof

You're Only Young Once

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Navy Blue and Gold

Conquest

Double Wedding

The Bride Wore Red

Madame X

My Dear Miss Aldrich

The Women Men Marry

The Romance of Celluloid

Broadway Melody of 1938

Captains Courageous

Married Before Breakfast

A Day at the Races

Parnell

The Good Earth

They Gave Him a Gun

The Thirteenth Chair

Night Must Fall

Maytime

A Family Affair

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Camille

After the Thin Man

Sinner Take All

Born to Dance

Mad Holiday

Tarzan Escapes

The Longest Night

Sworn Enemy

Romeo and Juliet

Suzy

The Devil-Doll

San Francisco

Fury

Trouble for Two

Absolute Quiet

The Unguarded Hour

The Great Ziegfeld

Moonlight Murder

Petticoat Fever

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Three Godfathers

Wife vs. Secretary

The Garden Murder Case

The Voice of Bugle Ann

Rose Marie

Tough Guy

Three Live Ghosts

Riffraff

A Tale of Two Cities

Last of the Pagans

Whipsaw

Kind Lady

Mutiny on the Bounty

A Night at the Opera

Rendezvous

I Live My Life

Broadway Melody of 1936

The Bishop Misbehaves

Anna Karenina

China Seas

Woman Wanted

Mad Love

Calm Yourself

No More Ladies

Public Hero Number 1

Murder in the Fleet

Age of Indiscretion

Reckless

Baby Face Harrington

Naughty Marietta

The Casino Murder Case

Times Square Lady

Shadow of Doubt

The Winning Ticket

David Copperfield

Sequoia

The Night Is Young

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

Forsaking All Others

The Gay Bride

What Every Woman Knows

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Chained

Hide-Out

Treasure Island

The Girl from Missouri

Paris Interlude

Operator 13

The Thin Man

Hollywood Party

Sadie McKee

Manhattan Melodrama

Viva Villa!

Tarzan and His Mate

Men in White

Riptide

The Show-Off

The Mystery of Mr. X

The Cat and the Fiddle

Queen Christina

Dinner at Eight

Going Hollywood

The Women in His Life

Should Ladies Behave

Dancing Lady

Bombshell

Night Flight

Stage Mother

The Solitaire Man

Penthouse

Beauty for Sale

Turn Back the Clock

Another Language

The Stranger's Return

Hold Your Man

Midnight Mary

When Ladies Meet

Reunion in Vienna

Storm at Daybreak

The Nuisance

Peg o' My Heart

Made on Broadway

The Barbarian

Looking Forward

Gabriel Over the White House

The White Sister

Fast Workers

Today We Live

Men Must Fight

The Secret of Madame Blanche

Whistling in the Dark

Strange Interlude

Rasputin and the Empress

The Son-Daughter

Flesh

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Payment Deferred

Red Dust

Faithless

Kongo

Smilin' Through

Grand Hotel

Blondie of the Follies

Downstairs

The Washington Masquerade

Unashamed

Red-Headed Woman

New Morals for Old

Night Court

As You Desire Me

Huddle

Letty Lynton

But the Flesh Is Weak

The Wet Parade

Tarzan the Ape Man

Polly of the Circus

Arsène Lupin

The Passionate Plumber

Lovers Courageous

Hell Divers

Emma

Freaks

Mata Hari

Private Lives

West of Broadway

The Champ

Possessed

The Cuban Love Song

Flying High

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

The Guardsman

Casanova Against His Will

Susan Lenox

This Modern Age

Guilty Hands

Sporting Blood

The Squaw Man

The Great Lover

The Man in Possession

Buster se marie

Five and Ten

A Free Soul

Laughing Sinners

Strangers May Kiss

The bitter fruit

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

Politics

Dance, Fools, Dance

Trader Horn

The Bachelor Father

Reducing

Paid

New Moon

Anna Christie

Passion Flower

Min and Bill

War Nurse

The Big House

A Lady's Morals

Si l'empereur savait ça

Madam Satan

Romance

Our Blushing Brides

Let Us Be Gay

The Big House

The Florodora Girl

The Lady of Scandal

Children of Pleasure

The Divorcee

This Mad World

Montana Moon

Lord Byron of Broadway

Anna Christie

Not So Dumb

The Ship from Shanghai

They Learned About Women

Their Own Desire

Dynamite

So This Is College

The Thirteenth Chair

The Unholy Night

Wonder of Women

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Idle Rich

The Voice of the City

The Broadway Melody