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3848 Franklin Avenue was the home in the 1940s of Mischa Bakaleinikoff, a composer and accomplished double-bass player and cellist who wrote the scores for 31 films between 1930 and 1959. Mischa fled Russia after the October Revolution of 1917, along with his brothers Vladimir and Constantin. He arrived in America in 1926, and, five years later, got a job with Columbia in Hollywood. He was at first utilized as a musician, but his talents came to be more widely employed during the 1930’s as orchestrator, conductor and (occasional) composer of film scores. More often, he created the incidental or linking music for numerous low-budget westerns, sci-fi’s, horrors and serials. Mischa spent his entire career at Columbia, under contract as musical director from 1944, until his death in 1960. (Internet Movie Database; The Movieland Directory, Wikipedia 2019)