Milton Edward Schwarzwald (1891–1950) was a film director and musical theater composer and producer. In the 1930s, he directed numerous
Mentone Productions Mentone Productions was a film company in the United States that produced short musical comedy films featuring a variety of performers. Milton Schwarzwald directed many of their films. In 1939, Schwarzwald moved on to producing musicals. Violinist J ...
comedy musical variety films before departing to produce musical theater in 1939.
Leo Feist
Leopold Feist (January 3, 1869, New York City – June 21, 1930, Mount Vernon, New York), in 1897 founded and ran a music publishing firm bearing his name. In the 1920s, at the height of the golden age of popular music, his firm was among the seve ...
published sheet music for his
operetta
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''Flora Bella'' in 1916. He and
Arthur Francis collaborated on a 1922 musical score.
''Playbill'' and IBDB list him as the musical director of four theatrical productions in the 1920s and as a musical contributor to a couple more.
BFI credits him with the music for five films in 1949 and 1950.
His son Arnold Schwarzwald was a composer and soundman.
Filmography
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Revue à la Carte'' (1935)
*''
Gus Van's Music Shoppe'' (1935), director
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Gus Van's Garden Party'' (1936), director
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Musical Airwaves'' (1936), director of the 10-minute short for
Universal Pictures
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Maids and Music
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'' (1938), producer
*''
Rumba Rhythms'' (1942), musical director
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*'']Top Man (film)
''Top Man'' (also known as ''Man of the Family'') is a 1943 American black-and-white film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster, Lillian Gish, Richard Dix, and Peggy Ryan. It was O'Connor and Ryan's first film aw ...
'' (1943), producer
*''Girl on the Spot
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Partial cast
* Lois Collier as Kathy Lorenz
* Jess Barker as Rick Crane
* George Dolenz as Leo ...
'' (1945), executive producer
*''Johnny Stool Pigeon
''Johnny Stool Pigeon'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by William Castle and starring Howard Duff, Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea.
Plot
A narcotics agent convinces a convict he helped send to Alcatraz go undercover with him t ...
'' (1949), composer
*''Illegal Entry
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'' (1949), music
*'' The Pecos Pistol'' (1949), composer
*''The Story of Molly X
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'' (1949), composer
*''Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
''Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town'' is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the second installment of Universal Pictures, Universal-International's ''Ma and Pa Kettle'' series starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.
Plot
A ...
'' (1950), composer
*''The Kid from Texas
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'' (1950), musical director
*''I Was a Shoplifter
''I Was a Shoplifter'' is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Scott Brady and Mona Freeman.
Plot
A shoplifter, Faye Burton, is being watched by Herb Klaxon, a security guard at a Los Angeles department sto ...
'' (1950), music director
*'' Outside the Wall'' (1950), music director
*''Woman in Hiding
''Woman in Hiding'' is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally and Howard Duff.
Plot
Deborah Chandler Clark watches police drag a North Carolina river for her body. She recounts th ...
'' (1950), music director
Discography
*''Baby Vampire'', sheet music, composer
References
External links
Discogs catalog
*{{IMSLP, id=Schwarzwald, Milton E.
American film directors