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Alois Reiser is a Sound Tchèque born on 6 april 1884

Alois Reiser

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Nationality Republique tcheque
Birth 6 april 1884
Death 4 july 1977 (at 93 years)

Alois Reiser est un compositeur, violoncelliste et chef d'orchestre américain d'origine tchèque, né le 6 avril 1884 à Prague (République tchèque ; alors Autriche-Hongrie), mort le 4 juillet 1977 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Biography

Au Conservatoire de Prague, jusqu'en 1903, Alois Reiser étudie le violoncelle avec Jan Burian (1877-1942) et la composition avec Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904). Après des débuts en Europe comme violoncelliste, il poursuit sa carrière aux États-Unis de 1904 à 1909, entre autres au sein du Bohemian Trio (formation de trio avec piano) et comme violoncelliste à l'orchestre symphonique de New York et à l'orchestre symphonique de Pittsburgh. Puis, de retour dans sa ville natale, il est en particulier chef d'orchestre à l'Opéra de Prague.

En 1914, peu avant le déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale, il revient aux États-Unis où il s'installe définitivement (plus tard — date à préciser —, il sera naturalisé américain). De 1918 à 1929, il est chef d'orchestre au Strand Theatre de New York (Broadway).

Comme compositeur de musique classique, on lui doit notamment deux quatuors à cordes, deux trios avec piano, deux concertos pour violoncelle, deux poèmes symphoniques et un opéra (à noter qu'il devient membre de l'ASCAP en 1942).

De plus, sollicité par Hollywood, Alois Reiser est l'auteur de musiques (le plus souvent sans être crédité) pour une trentaine de films américains jusqu'en 1938, le premier étant L'Arche de Noé de Michael Curtiz (avec George O'Brien et Dolores Costello), sorti en 1928. Citons également Her Private Life d'Alexander Korda (1929, avec Billie Dove et Walter Pidgeon), Le Millionnaire de John G. Adolfi (1931, avec George Arliss et James Cagney) et Caravan d'Erik Charell (1934, avec Charles Boyer et Loretta Young).

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Filmography of Alois Reiser (28 films)

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Caravan
Caravan (1934)
, 1h41
Directed by Erik Charell
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Jean Parker, Phillips Holmes, Louise Fazenda, Eugene Pallette
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60% 3.048673.048673.048673.048673.04867
The young Countess Wilma (Young) is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. Wilma impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi (Boyer), offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent.
The Star Witness, 1h8
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Walter Huston, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell, Sally Blane, Leah Remini, Ralph Ince
Roles Music
Rating62% 3.1017353.1017353.1017353.1017353.101735
The Leeds family consists of two adult children, their two young brothers, their parents, and Grandpa Summerill, a feisty retired soldier visiting from the old soldiers' home. Hearing a commotion outside, most of them go to the windows and witness gangster "Maxey" Campo murdering two men. Campo enters the house, assaults Grandpa for confronting him, threatens the family with harm if they talk, and flees by the back exit.
Back Pay
Back Pay (1930)
, 1h10
Directed by Frank Borzage, William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Seena Owen, Corinne Griffith, Matt Moore, Grant Withers, J. Barney Sherry, Montagu Love
Rating63% 3.190683.190683.190683.190683.19068
Hester Bevins is tired of life in the small town where she has lived all her life. Although she has a boyfriend, Gerald Smith, who is in love with her, she deserts him and takes a train to New York with a travelling salesman. Bevins meets a rich older man, Charles Wheeler, who provides her with all the luxuries she wants in return for being his girlfriend. One day, Bevins' friends invite her on a motor trip to Hot Springs, which is about thirty miles from her old home town. She decides to visit her old hometown. She encounters Smith, who, thinking that she is still single and has a job in the city, proposes marriage but she refuses saying that it is now impossible. Disillusioned, he signs up for the war and ends up being gassed, suffering lung damage and blindness. When the news reaches Bevins, she immediately goes to see him and attempts to nurse him back to health. When the doctor tells her that Smith has only a short time left to livem Bevins asks Wheeler's permission to marry Smith before he dies. She finds peace and happiness in her brief relationship with Smith. After Smith dies in her arms, Bevins decides to end her sordid relationship with Wheeler and return to working for a living.
College Lovers, 1h1
Directed by John G. Adolfi
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Marian Nixon, Frank McHugh, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Russell Hopton, Wade Boteler, Phyllis Crane

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, a star football player, decides to leave Sanford college after he has found that his girlfriend has eloped with another man. He is drive to the train station by Russell Hopton, his best friend, and also a football player for the same college. Jack Whiting, who plays the part of the student manager of the Sanford college athletic association as well as part of the president of the student body, knows that the college needs Williams to win the important game against Colton college.
The Flirting Widow, 1h12
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Claude Gillingwater, William Austin, Emily Fitzroy
Roles Music
Rating60% 3.0481253.0481253.0481253.0481253.048125
William Faraday refuses to let his youngest daughter, Evelyn, get married before her older sister, Celia, finds a husband. Faraday is afraid that people will call Celia an old maid. Celia, who has no interest in getting married, attempts to fool her father by pretending to be engaged. After a short vacation away from home she makes the announcement to her family and informs everyone that he has gone to Arabia but that they will be married upon his return to England. When her father receives this news, he finally consents to Evelyn's marriage. At Evelyn's insistence, Celia writes a love letter to her fiancé.
Loose Ankles
Directed by Ted Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Louise Fazenda, Otis Harlan, Edward J. Nugent, Inez Courtney
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59% 2.9983552.9983552.9983552.9983552.998355
Ann Harper Berry (Loretta Young), a young socialite, receives an inheritance of one million dollars from her deceased grandmother. The will stipulates, however, that she will only receive the money after she has been married to someone who meets with the approval of her two prudish aunts Sarah (Louise Fazenda) and Katherine (Ethel Wales) Harper. The will also stipulates that everyone will lose their inheritance if a scandal involving Young occurs before she is married. In the case of a scandal, the entire estate will be donated to an organization for the welfare of cats and dogs.
Big Boy
Big Boy (1930)
, 1h8
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Musical films, Films based on plays, Horse sports in film
Actors Al Jolson, Claudia Dell, Louise Closser Hale, Noah Beery Sr., Lloyd Hughes, Lew Harvey
Roles Music
Rating55% 2.7707052.7707052.7707052.7707052.770705
Al Jolson plays Gus, a loyal stable boy and jockey to a rich family in the South that has been interested in horse racing and breeding horses for generations. (In a flashback we see Jolson's grandfather, who also worked for the same family back in 1870.) The young heir of the family, Jack, loses a lot of money by gambling and is blackmailed by the crooks he lost to for forging a check. They convince Jack to ask his mother to replace Gus with another jockey for the family's racehorse, "Big Boy", but she refuses. The crooks frame Gus and he is discharged for tampering with the horse. Gus is replaced by a jockey who has been bought off to lose on purpose. Gus find works as a waiter in a fancy restaurant. While working there he uncovers the details about the race throwing plot and he reveals this to Hughes and then, with his help, outsmarts the crooks just in time to then ride "Big Boy" to victory.
In the Next Room, 1h9
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Jack Mulhall, Alice Day, Robert Emmett O'Connor, John St. Polis, Claud Allister, Aggie Herring
Roles Music

The film is preceded by a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting of the film then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 1889 murder had occurred. For years the house had been deserted, it's only occupant being the butler. St. Polis moves in with his daughter (Alice Day) and maid and retains the elderly butler to help take care of the house. One night, the police arrive at the house after receiving a telephone call that a murder has just been committed on the premises. When they arrive, the police are surprised to find that no one in the house knows what they are talking about. It so happens that on that day a valuable antique cabinet has arrived at the house and this has attracted several strangers to come to the house to examine it. A young reporter (Jack Mulhall), who has come to see Alice Day, also arrives at the house. As the police are investigating the mysterious telephone call, however, a series of strange murders occur. As Mulhall is helping Day to open the antique cabinet, they find a hypnotized woman inside. The police are then notified but when everyone returns to the cabinet they find the woman has disappeared. One of the police detectives, Robert Emmett O'Connor, is soon knocked unconscious. St Polis is also hit of the head but stays conscious. The son of the former owner of the cabinet is soon found murdered. As Mulhall attempts to call his newspaper, Day is abducted and taken to the wine cellar. She is rescued by a one-legged man who suddenly disappears and is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, the hypnotized girl appears in a revived state and reveals that her partner, a diamond smuggler, has been murdered with poison. Eventually, Mulhall, assuming the role of an amateur detective, clears up the entire mystery.
Murder Will Out, 1h9
Directed by Clarence G. Badger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee, Noah Beery Sr., Malcolm McGregor, Tully Marshall, Alec B. Francis

Leonard Staunton (Mulhall), a young wealthy New York club-man is engaged to Jeanne Baldwin (Lee), daughter of a U.S. Senator (Francis). Mulhall is preparing to spend a weekend at the Senator's estate. He becomes involved in the affairs of a gang of blackmailers through his efforts to help a fellow club member. When Alan Fitzhugh (Allister), a fellow club-member, arrives with a note, imprinted with a purple hieroglyph, in which he, Fitzhugh, is threatened with a horrible death. Since Fitzhugh is nervous and terrified, Leonard agrees to stay with him at his apartment that night.
No, No, Nanette, 1h38
Directed by Clarence G. Badger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bernice Claire, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Alexander Gray, Zasu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield
Rating60% 3.045143.045143.045143.045143.04514
Jim Smith (Lucien Littlefield), a millionaire due to his Bible publishing business, is married to the overly frugal Sue (Louise Fazenda). They desire to teach their ward Nanette (Bernice Claire), who has an untapped wild side, wants to have some fun in Atlantic City, and is being pursued by Tom Trainor (Alexander Gray), to be a respectable young lady.
The Office Wife, 59minutes
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Joan Blondell, Hobart Bosworth, Dickie Moore
Rating61% 3.0929853.0929853.0929853.0929853.092985
Publisher Larry Fellowes (Lewis Stone) believes that his stenographer/secretary (played by Dale Fuller) spends more time with him and makes more decisions than a wife would for her husband. He persuades author Kate Halsey (Blanche Friderici) to write a novel based on this premise.
Spring Is Here, 1h9
Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Lawrence Gray, Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling, Inez Courtney
Rating56% 2.8075652.8075652.8075652.8075652.807565
As the film begins, we find Bernice Claire in love with Lawrence Gray. Claire's father, played by Ford Sterling, disapproves of Lawrence but approves another suitor, played by Alexander Gray. Alexander is shy and clumsy while Lawrence is outgoing and romantic. When Bernice returns one night at 5 a.m. with Lawrence, her father orders him to stay away from his daughter. Alexander, being discouraged at being rejected by Bernice, is offered help by Inez Courtney, Bernice's younger sister. Alexander follows her advice and attempts to make Bernice jealous to get her attention. He makes love to several women, including Bernice's mother. The trick works and soon Bernice thinks she is deeply in love with Alexander. Sterling gets into a argument with Lawrence and tells him to leave his house for good. Lawrence returns in the middle of the night to elope with Bernice but Alexander shows up and carries her off for himself. In the morning they are found together in Bernice's room, to the shock of the family, and they eventually reveal to everyone that they have eloped.