The Pink Panther Theme The Pink Panther Theme "The Pink Panther Theme" is an instrumental composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film "The Pink Panther" and subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 37th Academy Awards but lost to the Sherman Brothers for "Mary Poppins". The eponymous cartoon character created for the film's opening credits by David DePatie and Friz Freleng was animated in time to the tune. The tenor saxophone solo was played by Plas Johnson. The song was included on the film's soundtrack album and issued as a single (in the United
Romeo Mancini exhibited between March and April in the Palazzo dei Priori. In 1963 Romero organized personal exhibitions in several U.S. states (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio). Mancini supervised the scenery for The Firebird by Stravinsky at the Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia. The artist found inspiration for this work in the painting "Antibes" from the 1950s. In 1966 Romeo was also invited to exhibit at the IX Quadriennale, where he presented two works on his usual theme of fishermen, called "Tempi del" "lavoratore del mare" ("lit." Temples of the Workers of the Sea) and II. Many monuments were commissioned to Mancini in the late