Louis De Francesco

Birth : 1888-12-26, Ales, Sardinia, Italy

Death : 1974-10-05

Movies

Golden Horses
Music
Golden Horses is a 1946 English language short film directed by Tom Cummiskey, starring Ed Thorgersen. It has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Live-Action Short, One-Reel.
The Gay Deception
Music Director
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Caravan
Music Director
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Caravan
Original Music Composer
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Music in the Air
Music Director
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
Grand Canary
Music Director
Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in love with a married woman.
Change of Heart
Original Music Composer
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
Coming Out Party
Music Director
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
I Am Suzanne!
Music
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Mr. Skitch
Original Music Composer
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Hoopla
Music Director
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Hoopla
Original Music Composer
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
The Power and the Glory
Original Music Composer
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
Berkeley Square
Music Director
A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Berkeley Square
Original Music Composer
A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
The Warrior's Husband
Music
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
Pleasure Cruise
Music Director
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
State Fair
Music Director
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
State Fair
Original Music Composer
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Face in the Sky
Music Director
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
Call Her Savage
Music Director
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
6 Hours to Live
Music Director
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
Chandu the Magician
Music
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
Pardon Us
Music
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.