Stanley Kubrick’s Childhood Friend – And Favorite Movie Composer – Never Got Paid For Their First Film

Kubrick never paid Gerald Fried (or apparently many others) for their first film. “He thought the very fact that my doing the music to his early movies got me into the profession was enough payment. We had an agreement – not in writing – [that] we would work for nothing but, as soon as the movie got sold, he would pay us. Well, he didn’t.”

Article source here:Arts Journal