Biography

David Mendoza(1894-1975)

Music Department
Composer
Actor

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In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into cultural icons, were the musical giants whose compositions defined the very films that captivated a generation of movie-goers. "Hollywoods Musical Moods" is an intimate conversation with some then-living legends from a bygone golden age of cinema.

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Hollywood's Musical Moods (1972)

David Mendoza was born on 13 March 1894 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Local Boy Makes Good (1931), L'ennemi public (1931) and Ver e Amar! (1930). He died on 23 March 1975 in New York City, New York, USA.

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Known for

Joe E. Brown in Local Boy Makes Good (1931)

Local Boy Makes Good

6.1

Music Department(title music, uncredited, Vitaphone Orchestra)

1931

James Cagney and Jean Harlow in L'ennemi public (1931)

L'ennemi public

7.6

Music Department(title music, uncredited, Vitaphone Orchestra)

1931

Soundtrack("Ben-Hur" (foxtrot))

1930

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Intrigues (1928)

7.1

Soundtrack("Love's First Kiss" (1928))

1928

Credits

Music Department

Dixieland Jamboree
Short
- musical director: archive footage
- 1946
Double or Nothing
6.2
Short
- musical director
- 1940
Romance in Rhythm
Short
- musical director
- 1940
Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'
7.2
Short
- musical director (uncredited)
- 1940
One for the Book
5.4
Short
- musical director
- 1940
History Repeats Itself
Short
- musical director
- 1939
Swing Styles
Short
- musical director (uncredited)
- 1939
Seeing Red
5.9
Short
- musical director
- 1939
Three-Minute Fuse
Short
- musical director
- 1939
On the Air
6.3
Short
- musical director (uncredited)
- 1939
The Broadway Buckaroo
Short
- musical director
- 1939
Public Jitterbug No. 1
5.5
Short
- musical director
- 1939
Seeing Spots
Short
- musical director
- 1939
Projection Room
5.2
Short
- musical director
- 1939
Russ Morgan and His Orchestra
Short
- musical director
- 1939

Composer

Dear Old Dad
Short
- Composer
- 1938
Ski Flight
Short
- Composer
- 1938
Roping 'em Alive!
Short
- Composer (music score)
- 1937
Attic of Terror
Short
- Composer
- 1937
His First Flame
5.6
Short
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1935
The Blue and the Gray
5.2
Short
- Composer (musical score)
- 1935
Remember the Alamo
Short
- Composer
- 1934
Dixieland
6.2
Short
- Composer
- 1934
Hail Columbia
5.5
Short
- Composer
- 1934
Detectuvs
Short
- Composer
- 1932
Compromised
5.4
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1931
Le génie fou
6.3
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1931
I Like Your Nerve
5.2
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1931
Alexander Hamilton
5.8
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1931
The Ruling Voice
5.9
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1931

Actor

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Personal details

Born
- March 13, 1894
- New York City, New York, USA
Died
- March 23, 1975
- New York City, New York, USA(undisclosed)

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