David Mendoza

Nascimento : 1894-03-13, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1975-03-23

Filmes

Double or Nothing
Music Director
In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.
Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'
Music Director
Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.
One for the Book
Music Director
In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.
The Knight Is Young
Music Director
June never leaves her apartment, which has a view of an advertising sign of a knight in shining armor. She is two weeks behind in her rent and believes that if she leaves the apartment, the landlord will never let her back in. The only way she gets food is when her friend, singer Earlayne Schools, brings it to her. One evening June sees Hal, a tap-dancing sign painter, painting over her knight. She explains her predicament, and he does his best to help her out.
Toyland Casino
Music Director
A score of amateur children sing and dance in costume in a multi-act musical revue.
Night Intruder
Music Director
Alibi Mark
Music Director
When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.
Home Run on the Keys
Music Director
In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio.
Home Run on the Keys
David Mendoza
In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio.
Hotel a la Swing
Conductor
In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.
The Backyard Broadcast
Music Director
In this short film, a boy holds a talent show in his backyard by and for his adolescent friends.
Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
Music
Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all Shakespeare’s works in order to mine them for potential film plots. Falling asleep on the job, he dreams of various Shakespearean characters coming to life from the pages of giant books and singing and dancing in celebration of their "goin’ Hollywood." The characters appearing include Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, Puck, Peter Quince, Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s Ghost, Falstaff, Antony, Cleopatra, and Macbeth. Shakespeare appears toward the end of the film to object, but he is quickly convinced by his characters to join a big song and dance routine. Includes passing references to a number of familiar Shakespearean scenes including Hamlet’s "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, Hamlet with Yorick’s skull, and Enobarbus’ speech on Cleopatra’s barge.
Broadway Ballyhoo
Music Director
In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with songs and nightclub tours.
No Contest!
Music Director
Ruth Etting is the star attraction on the Albertson Travel Agency radio show. When her producers learn that her recordings are on another program at the same time, they devise a contest, based on the words in a song she sings, in which the winner gets Etting's services at a banquet.
Hail Columbia
Music
This short film provides highlights from American history, focusing on George Washington's farewell to the troops to the War of 1812.
The Policy Girl
Music Director
An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.
O Gênio do Mal
Conductor
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
O Gênio do Mal
Original Music Composer
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Alexander Hamilton
Music Director
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Alexander Hamilton
Original Music Composer
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
The Ruling Voice
Conductor
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
The Bargain
Music
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
Chances
Original Music Composer
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
Chances
Conductor
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
Gold Dust Gertie
Original Music Composer
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
Smart Money
Music
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Svengali
Original Music Composer
Svengali é um professor de canto, pianista e empresário de música em geral, vivendo em Paris. Ele possui um talento especial: é capaz de hipnotizar outras pessoas através de sua música e através de seus fortes poderes telepáticos. Ele usa esse talento especificamente para seduzir suas alunas para o seu próprio proveito financeiro. E as descarta facilmente quando elas já não possuem mais qualquer utilidade para ele. Mas, depois de ouvi-la e vê-la, Svengali se apaixona por uma jovem modelo chamada Trilby O'Farrell, que ele conhece no estúdio de alguns colegas artistas.
My Past
Original Music Composer
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
Inimigo Público
Conductor
Chicago, 1909. Dois garotos, Tom Powers e Matt Doyle, que são bem amigos, crescem numa área pobre da cidade. Eles frequentam salões de sinuca e fazem pequenos furtos, que são vendidos para o receptador de 3ª categoria Putty Nose. Em 1915 os dois amigos estão se tornado jovens homens, que de dia fazem entregas e à noite planejam roubos com Putty Nose, que lhes dá revólveres e dicas para o 1º grande golpe deles. Porém as coisas não saem como o planejado e, apesar de Tom e Matt conseguirem escapar, um cúmplice deles é morto e Putty Nose, que prometeu protegê-los, deixa a cidade. Em 1920 eles fazem amizade com Paddy Ryan, que lhes diz que a chegada da Lei Seca fará com que ganhem muito dinheiro vendendo bebida. Realmente em pouco tempo Tom e Matt ganham o bastante para frequentar os melhores lugares, usarem roupas finas e carros luxuosos, mas para manter este padrão de vida o preço é às vezes muito alto.
God's Gift to Women
Original Music Composer
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
Father's Son
Music
Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.
Alma no Lodo
Music
Enrico Bandello, um assassino profissional, e seu motorista cúmplice Joe Massara chegam em uma cidade grande e são contratados por um mafioso. Porém, após um roubo e um assassinato, as coisas tomam rumos imprevisíveis.
Kiss Me Again
Music Director
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
The Lash
Original Music Composer
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
Mothers Cry
Original Music Composer
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
The Girl of the Golden West
Musical
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
Oh, Sailor Behave!
Additional Music
Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
The Song of the Flame
Music
This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirator. This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (a Warner Brother's wide screen process)
Disraeli
Original Music Composer
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Glorious Betsy
Music
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Original Music Composer
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
Camille
Original Music Composer
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Don Juan
Original Music Composer
Don Juan é um charmoso jovem que aprendeu com o pai todos os segredos da arte da sedução. Em meio a diversas aventuras amorosas e duelos de espada com maridos enfurecidos, Don Juan conhece a bela Adriana Della Varnese, a única jovem da região que parece não ceder aos seus encantos. Decidido a conquistar a garota, o galã terá de enfrentar uma poderosa tirana local.
La Bohème
Original Music Composer
It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
Ben-Hur
Original Music Composer
Os amigos de infância Judah Ben-Hur e Messala encontram-se novamente quando adultos. Messala é um oficial romano e Ben-Hur é um israelita conquistado. Um mal-entendido durante um desfile romano faz com que Ben-Hur seja escravizado pelo agora ex-amigo e veja sua família humilhada. Este é apenas o começo da épica jornada de Ben-Hur em busca da vingança.
O Grande Desfile
Music
O filho de um rico empresário americano se alista na Primeira Guerra Mundial e é enviado para a França, onde se apaixona e passa a fazer amizade com soldados da classe operária.
Madame DuBarry
Music
Madame DuBarry, amante do rei francês Luís XV, vive muitos amores durante a Revolução Francesa.