York. In pictures you have to please the whole country, and most of the world besides. The songs must have universal appeal, get down to something that every human being feels and can understand. That isn’t so hard really, once you get the trick of simplicity. Rainger paid one year's tuition fees to the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in advance, so that Schoenberg could pay for the transportation of his belongings to Los Angeles from Paris in 1933. Rainger died in a plane crash near Palm Springs, California, in 1942. He was a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 28, a DC-3 airliner that was involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Army Air Corps bomber. Rainger, then age 41, was survived by his wife, Elizabeth ("Betty"), an eight-year-old son, and two daughters, aged five and one. In the initial 1942 press coverage of the crash, the collision was not acknowledged; Betty Rainger later sued American Airlines and won a substantial judgement late in 1943. Film credits Film credits include: 1930 - Tom Sawyer 1930 - The Virtuous Sin 1932 - The Big Broadcast 1932 - A Farewell to Arms 1932 - This Is the Night 1933 - A Bedtime Story 1933 - From Hell to Heaven 1933 - She Done Him Wrong 1933 - International House 1933 - Three-Cornered Moon 1934 - Kiss and Make-Up 1934 - Come on Marines 1934 - Bolero 1934 - All of Me 1934 - Little Miss Marker 1934 - Search for Beauty 1934 - Six of a Kind 1935 - The Devil Is a Woman 1935 - The Big Broadcast of 1936 1935 - Ruggles of Red Gap 1936 - The Big Broadcast of 1937 1936 - Rhythm on the Range 1936 - Rose of the Rancho 1936 - Poppy 1936 - Palm Springs 1936 - Three Cheers for Love 1937 - King of Gamblers 1937 - The Big Broadcast of 1938, including the Academy Award-winning song "Thanks for the Memory" 1937 - Blossoms on Broadway 1937 - Hills of Old Wyoming 1937 - Ebb Tide 1937 - Swing High, Swing Low 1937 - Waikiki Wedding 1937 - Souls at Sea 1938 - Her Jungle Love 1938 - Artists and Models Abroad 1938 - Romance in the Dark 1938 - The Texans 1939 - Gulliver's Travels, including the Academy Award nominated song "Faithful Forever" 1939 - $1000 a Touchdown 1941 - Cadet Girl