- Although his style of scoring is rather lightly dismissed by some critics in comparison to that of later M-G-M composers and orchestrators, his composing, adaptation and scoring of the music in "The Wizard of Oz", is still considered a masterpiece. It won Stothart his only Oscar.
- Stothart's first wife, Dorothy Wolfe, committed suicide in front of him while he was playing the piano at home, with their 4-year-old daughter in the house. The reasons for her actions are not clear.
- Broadway composer who eventually abandoned the stage to compose mostly background music for films.
- M-G-M's in-house and most prolific composer from the studio's earliest talkies until his death in 1949.
- Great-uncle of Norton Buffalo.
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