Classical Music

...who had been classical composers before coming here, and borrowed liberally from the tradition in which they'd been trained. Dimitri Tiomkin (nowadays, most famous for "High Noon" ), upon winning the Academy Award in 1954 for "The High and the Mighty," delivered one of the most famous acceptance speeches in movie history (reproduced here in its entirety in his characteristically-broken English):

"Lady and gentlemen, because I working in this town for twenty-five years, I like to make some kind of appreciation to very important factor what make me successful to lots of my colleagues in this town. I’d like to thank Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Mozart, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov. Thank you."