Alfred Herman

Birth : 1889-09-08, New York City, New York, USA

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred Herman (September 8, 1889 – December 1973) was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Love Affair. He was born in New York City, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.

Movies

The Lusty Men
Art Direction
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
Beware, My Lovely
Art Direction
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.
My Forbidden Past
Art Direction
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
The Company She Keeps
Art Direction
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
Gambling House
Art Direction
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
A Dangerous Profession
Art Direction
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.
They Live by Night
Art Direction
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Easy Living
Art Direction
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Berlin Express
Art Direction
Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Crossfire
Art Direction
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
From This Day Forward
Art Direction
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Man Alive
Art Direction
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
Sing Your Way Home
Art Direction
In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. En route, he has been assigned to watch over a band of teenagers who were trapped in Europe four years ago while entertaining the troops. Their entrapment has done nothing to dim their enthusiasm for performing and while waiting for passage the crews entertain everyone at every opportunity. Songs include: "I'll Buy That Dream" (sung by Anne Jeffreys), "Heaven Is a Place Called Home," "Seven O'Clock in the Morning (Waking up Boogie)," "Somebody Stole My Poor Little Heart" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel), and "The Lord's Prayer" (arranged by Albert Hay Malotte).
Having Wonderful Crime
Art Direction
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Pan-Americana
Art Direction
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
Music in Manhattan
Art Direction
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
The Falcon Out West
Art Direction
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
Action in Arabia
Art Direction
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
Rookies in Burma
Art Direction
In the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles, and Mike Strager, are still spending most of their time on KP duty. However they are captured by the Japanese and taken to a prison camp and discover that their long-suffering Sergeant Burke has also been captured. They manage to escape and find their way to a Burmese village in which two American showgirls, Janie and Connie who have escaped from Shanghai, are stranded. They all borrow an elephant and head for India.
Around the World
Art Direction
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Gangway for Tomorrow
Art Direction
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
A Lady Takes a Chance
Art Direction
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Behind the Rising Sun
Art Direction
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Bombardier
Art Direction
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Art Direction
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
The Big Street
Art Direction
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
A Date with the Falcon
Art Direction
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Look Who's Laughing
Assistant Art Director
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
All That Money Can Buy
Other
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Love Affair
Assistant Art Director
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
The Affairs of Annabel
Assistant Art Director
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Blond Cheat
Art Direction
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
This Marriage Business
Assistant Art Director
A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
Super-Sleuth
Assistant Art Director
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Border Cafe
Assistant Art Director
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
Bunker Bean
Assistant Art Director
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Love on a Bet
Art Direction
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
She
Assistant Art Director
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide's daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor.
Red Morning
Art Direction
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Anne of Green Gables
Art Direction
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
Wednesday's Child
Art Direction
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
The Age of Innocence
Art Direction
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
His Greatest Gamble
Art Direction
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Let's Try Again
Art Direction
To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.
Stingaree
Art Direction
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
Sing and Like it
Art Direction
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
Success at Any Price
Art Direction
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
Long Lost Father
Art Direction
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Man of Two Worlds
Art Direction
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
After Tonight
Art Direction
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy.
Ace of Aces
Art Direction
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
Blind Adventure
Settings
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
King Kong
Settings
Adventurous filmmaker, Carl Denham, sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to displayed on Broadway as Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
King Kong
Art Direction
Adventurous filmmaker, Carl Denham, sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to displayed on Broadway as Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
The Past of Mary Holmes
Settings
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.