Louis Silvers
Louis Silvers | |
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![]() Silvers in 1921 | |
Background information | |
Also known as | Lou Silvers |
Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | September 6, 1889
Died | March 26, 1954 Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged 64)
Occupation(s) | Film composer |
Louis "Lou" Silvers (September 6, 1889 – March 26, 1954) was an American film score composer whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. In 1935, he won the first Academy Award for Best Original Score for One Night of Love.
Early life and career[]
Born in New York City, Silvers scored the sound sequences in the D. W. Griffith film Dream Street (1921), and scored the part-talking feature film The Jazz Singer (1927). He was also music director for Lux Radio Theater for most of its long run (1934–1955). He is also the composer of "April Showers" (1921).
Personal life and death[]
Silvers was married to Janet Adair. On March 26, 1954, Silvers died of a heart ailment in Hollywood, California.
Awards and nominations[]
Year | Award | Result | Category | Film |
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1935 | Academy Award | Won | Best Music, Score | One Night of Love |
1938 | Nominated | Best Music, Score | In Old Chicago | |
1939 | Nominated | Best Music, Original Score | Suez | |
1940 | Nominated | Best Music, Scoring | Swanee River |
Selected filmography[]
- Sonny Boy (1929)
- No Greater Glory (1934)
- The Girl Friend (1935)
- A Message to Garcia (1936)
- Private Number (1936)
References[]
- Wright, H. Stephen; Limbacher, James L., Keeping Score. Film and Television Music, 1980–1988. With Additional Coverage of 1921–1979, Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1991.
External links[]
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- 1889 births
- 1954 deaths
- Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners
- American film score composers
- American male film score composers
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
- Musicians from New York City
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American film biography stubs
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs