Bernard Herrmann - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Part of Herrmann's score for The Trouble with Harry was used in a 2010 U.S. television commercial for the Volkswagen CC.
  • Music from the Vertigo soundtrack was used in BBC Four's Spitfire Women documentary, aired in the UK in September 2010.
  • A 2011 TV commercial entitled "Snowpocalypse" for Dodge all-wheel drive vehicles uses Herrmann's main title theme for Cape Fear.
  • "Gimme Some More" by Busta Rhymes is based on a sample from Herrmann's score from Psycho.
  • The prologue to Lady Gaga's 2011 video for the song Born This Way features Herrmann's Vertigo prelude.
  • The 2011 FX series American Horror Story has used cues from Twisted Nerve, Psycho, and Vertigo for episode scores.
  • The 2011 film The Artist used a soundtrack recording of the love theme from Vertigo. Film actress Kim Novak later voiced her concern about the use of the music, saying that her work "had been violated by the film, 'The Artist'."
  • According to his official website, actor Paul Schackman will portray Herrmann along side Anthony Hopkins' Hitchcock in the 2013 biopic "Hitchcock."
  • Herrman's spirit communicated with Andrew Lloyd Webber in a seance mediated by the Cake Boss in episode 23 of the Pod F Tompkast.

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