Louis Alter
Louis age ( born June 18, 1902 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, † November 5, 1980 in New York City, New York) was an American lyricist and composer of film music, which was nominated twice for an Oscar for best song.
Life
Age began in 1915 as a pianist to play music for silent films in theaters at the age of thirteen and later studied at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music. In the 1920s, he worked on the side of Irène Bordoni in many vaudeville shows and went with Nora Bayes between 1924 and her death in 1928 on tours of the U.S. and abroad.
Then he began saeine career as a songwriter and composer of film music in the film industry in Hollywood in 1929 with the short film Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra for whom he wrote the song " My Kinda Love" for the orchestra bandleader Ben Pollack.
At the Academy Awards in 1937 age was first nominated together with lyricist Sidney D. Mitchell for an Oscar for best song, and indeed for " A Melody from the Sky " from the movie drama battle in the mountains ( The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, 1936 ) by Henry Hathaway with Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda in the lead roles.
His second Oscar nomination for best song in 1942, he was with Frank Loesser for the song " Dolores " from the musical film Las Vegas Nights (1941 ) by Ralph Murphy with the main actors, Constance Moore, Bert Wheeler and Phil Regan.
Age wrote songs such as " Dolores " or " Come Up and See Me Some Time", which were played in sixty films, but also in the TV shows of Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Johnny Carson, David Frost. Age, whose daughter participated Alison age as an actress in 1969 in the short film Hang Up by Joseph Marzano, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.