Editing Nathaniel Shilkret (section)

==Later career==
Shilkret left RCA Victor in mid-1935, but continued to record occasionally for the company. His last recording released on the Victor label was the American Banjo Album (P-218) recorded in October 1946. This album was reissued shortly after the Victor issue as one side of an LP under the Aztec label.

Shilkret moved to Los Angeles in late 1935 and there contributed music scores and musical direction for a string of Hollywood films for [[RKO]] (as musical director from 1935 to 1937), [[Walter Lantz Productions]] (one of the studio's musical directors during 1937) and [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (as a musical director from 1942 to 1946). His films included ''Mary of Scotland'' (1936), ''Swing Time'' (1936), ''The Plough and the Stars'', and ''Shall We Dance?'' (1937) and several films of [[Laurel and Hardy]].<ref name="AMG"/> He also received an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nomination for his work scoring the film version of [[Maxwell Anderson]]'s stage drama ''Winterset'' (1936).

[[File:Draft letter Shilkret to Bartok p1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Nathaniel Shilkret's letter to [[Béla Bartók]] in 1945.]]

In 1939, he conducted a group of soloists (including tenor [[Jan Peerce]]) and the Victor Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor's multi-disc tribute to [[Victor Herbert]], which were recorded following a special [[NBC]] radio broadcast, and he recorded a number of other albums in 1939 and 1940. Due to a serious abdominal operation for cancer removal, he did not conduct for most of 1941.

In 1944–45, Shilkret led the [[Classical music written in collaboration|collaborative project]] that created ''[[Genesis Suite]]'', a work for narrator, chorus, and orchestra based on the events in the biblical [[Book of Genesis]]. This collaboration involved Shilkret, plus six other composers who immigrated to the United States from Europe – most of whom were Jewish – contributing one movement each: [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], [[Darius Milhaud]], [[Arnold Schoenberg]], [[Igor Stravinsky]], [[Alexandre Tansman]] and [[Ernst Toch]]. Shilkret also tried to involve [[Béla Bartók]] in the collaborative project, but this was unsuccessful.

He worked at RKO-Pathe, making short films from 1946 through the mid-1950s. During this same period he recorded at least 260 transcriptions for SESAC.<ref name=shilkret1/> He was the pit orchestra conductor for the Broadway show ''Paris '90'' in 1952.

In 1951, Shilkret wrote the music for a brief documentary titled, ''The Flying Padre'', that was directed by a young [[Stanley Kubrick]].

He lived in his son's home in [[Franklin Square, New York]] from the mid-1950s, until his death in 1982. He was a great-uncle of actress [[Julie Warner]].