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Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was an Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action. Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career.
His most successful compositions were for Cecil B. DeMille's Joan the Woman (1917), The Ten Commandments (1923) and The King of Kings (1927); D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930); and the original scores to F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) and Tabu (1931).
Born in Vienna, Riesenfeld's musical career began at the age of seven with a violin study at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in his city of birth, where he graduated at the age of 17 in piano, violin and composition degrees. He briefly played in the Vienna Philharmonic. By the end of the 19th century, he was playing with Arnold Schönberg, Arthur Bodanzky, and Edward Falck in a local string quartet.
In 1907, Riesenfeld emigrated to New York City. He did his first work in film when he conducted the accompaniment for Jesse L. Lasky's production of Carmen (1915).
On 15 April 1923, with inventor Lee de Forest, Riesenfeld co-presented a show at the Rivoli Theater in New York City of 18 short films made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Riesenfeld died in 1939 in Los Angeles after a severe illness. His daughter Janet starred in some Mexican movies as a dancer and actress under the pseudonym Raquel Rojas and Janet Alcorzia and later became a screenwriter.
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01 November 1928
In old Mexico a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her father's wishes.
02 February 1929
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of.
30 March 1929
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
11 October 1936
This musical tells the story of Campo wooing Damita from Keating with songs "So Divine," "Out of the Hills," "The Love Fiesta," "Oh Bella Mia.
05 June 1925
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady.
12 January 1929
The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr.
22 June 1929
This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
12 October 1926
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career.
06 November 1920
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them.
26 March 1916
A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed.
05 May 1937
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
24 August 1929
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
17 December 2003
This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.
31 March 1923
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
04 November 1927
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
27 May 1928
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult.
01 September 1928
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
01 September 1937
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden.
27 March 1928
Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.
27 October 1918
A series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
15 November 1930
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
26 October 1936
The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayor who ordered them to leave town.
17 November 1934
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A.
07 January 1938
Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.
02 October 1934
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
15 November 1933
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return.
30 September 1927
The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
20 August 1927
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death.
29 April 1927
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
08 November 1930
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A.
30 July 1931
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
02 May 1929
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life.
17 November 1928
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1.
04 June 1936
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. An evil count has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers.
30 April 1930
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
15 June 1938
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house.
28 September 1936
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D.
23 December 1936
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
26 October 1929
Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca.
12 October 1928
Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson.
29 May 1920
Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player.
20 April 1929
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion.
11 January 1937
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
11 November 1938
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
28 December 1928
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man.
29 September 1930
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
30 March 1925
A silent documentary which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia as they and their herds make their epic seasonal journey to better pastures.
10 November 1939
During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia".
07 February 1930
This one has it all, the apprentice, the multiplying brooms, the buckets of water, everything that the Fantasia sequence has.
09 May 1921
Actress Fay McMillan finds her child, Pauline, whom she deserted years ago, in an orphanage, but Monty, her financer, objects to her taking the girl back.
16 February 1925
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
