Editing Kings Row (section)

==Musical score==
The film's musical score by [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]] was so popular with the public that the Warner Brothers Music Department drafted a form letter response to questions about recordings and sheet music. At the time, film scores for movie dramas were not published or recorded for commercial distribution.<ref name='Inside'/>

A soundtrack was not commercially available until 1979 when [[Chalfont Records]], with the composer's son [[George Korngold]] as producer and an orchestra conducted by [[Charles Gerhardt (conductor)|Charles Gerhardt]], made an early digital recording. Subsequently, the original soundtrack with the composer conducting was released from an optical recording.

''Kings Row'' is considered one of Korngold's more popular compositions. The White House requested the original orchestral score for Ronald Reagan's presidential inauguration. Academy Award winning film composer [[John Williams]] drew inspiration from the film's soundtrack for his famous [[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope#Soundtrack|Star Wars opening theme]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The encyclopedia of film composers|last=Hischak, Thomas S.|isbn=9781442245501|location=Lanham, Maryland|oclc=908031206|date = April 16, 2015}}</ref>

Before releasing the film, the ''Los Angeles Daily News'' reported that Henry Bellamann "heads west to help Erich Wolfgang Korngold on the scoring" of the film, and that Bellamann used to be on the faculty of the [[Curtis Institute of Music]] in Philadelphia. This led Korngold to send a sarcastic letter to the head of studio publicity at Warner Brothers writing "Seriously, should I really stop working and wait for the arrival of Mr. Bellamann? ... however, if he shouldn't arrive in time to help ''me'', I shall certainly be ready to 'head east" Perhaps, ''I'' could help ''him'' in writing his new book!"<ref name='Inside'/>