Max Rée

Nacimiento : 1889-10-07, Copenhagen, Denmark

Muerte : 1953-03-07

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Max Rée (7 October 1889 – 7 March 1953) was a Danish costume designer and art director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Cimarron. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Los Angeles, California.

Películas

Carnegie Hall
Costume Design
Nora, una joven irlandesa y melómana, trabaja en el Carnegie Hall como chica de la limpieza. Está enamorada de Tony Salerno, un pianista dotado pero rebelde que se enfrenta con el director de orquesta por la diferente concepción que tiene de la interpretación de una pieza de Tchaikovski. Tras la muerte de Tony, la protagonista sigue trabajando en el Carnegie Hall, y se obsesiona con que su hijo, también llamado Tony, triunfe como concertista de piano. Nora lleva todas las noches al pequeño al Carnegie Hall, convirtiendo el edificio en la mejor escuela de música posible.
Carnegie Hall
Art Direction
Nora, una joven irlandesa y melómana, trabaja en el Carnegie Hall como chica de la limpieza. Está enamorada de Tony Salerno, un pianista dotado pero rebelde que se enfrenta con el director de orquesta por la diferente concepción que tiene de la interpretación de una pieza de Tchaikovski. Tras la muerte de Tony, la protagonista sigue trabajando en el Carnegie Hall, y se obsesiona con que su hijo, también llamado Tony, triunfe como concertista de piano. Nora lleva todas las noches al pequeño al Carnegie Hall, convirtiendo el edificio en la mejor escuela de música posible.
El sueño de una noche de verano
Costume Design
Teseo, duque de Atenas, se va a casar con Hipólita, Reina de las Amazonas. Demetrio está comprometido con Hermia, pero Hermia ama a Lisandro. Helena ama a Demetrio. Oberon y Titania, del reino de las hadas, tienen una pequeña disputa sobre si el niño que Titania está criando se unirá al bando de Titania o al de Oberon, por lo que Oberon intentará alejarlo de ella usando algo de magia. Pero no están solos en ese bosque. Lisandro y Hermina tienen una cita, Helena y Demetrio también están allí, así como algunos actores, que están practicando una obra de teatro para la próxima boda de Teseo e Hipólita. Debido a algunos malentendidos, todo se vuelve un poco confuso...
La reina Kelly
Costume Design
En Kronberg, capital de un antiguo reino centroeuropeo, la cruel y caprichosa reina Regina V castiga a su primo y prometido, el príncipe Wolfram, a ir de maniobras bajo el sol durante todo el día por su escandalosa escapada de la noche anterior. Por el camino de Kambach, el príncipe y su escuadrón se cruzan con un grupo de monjas y de jóvenes novicias de un convento cercano. Cuando las muchachas se inclinan ante el príncipe, los leotardos de una de ellas, Patricia Kelly, se deslizan hasta el suelo. El príncipe y su escuadron comienzan a reirse, y la muchacha, indignada, se los arroja a la cara. Enamorado locamente de ella desde ese momento, el príncipe decide raptarla conduciéndola a sus habitaciones en palacio, a pesar de que la Reina ya ha anunciado su boda para el día siguiente. (FILMAFFINITY)
La Escuadrilla Deshecha
Costume Design
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
Ladies of the Jury
Set Designer
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
Ladies of the Jury
Costume Design
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
Girl of the Rio
Costume Design
Girl of the Rio finds the gorgeous Dolores del Rio as a cabaret dancer in the employment of slick gambler, Leo Carrillo, who has his eye on the beauty. When she falls for Norman Foster, Carrillo has him locked away. Del Rio must use her smarts to ensure her man is safely freed.
¿Nos divorciamos?
Costume Design
En la fiesta celebrada para conmemorar sus bodas de plata, el matrimonio Bruno se pelea y se separan. Cada uno por su cuenta decide partir a la ciudad de los divorcios –Reno- y allí contratan los servicios de una pareja experta de abogados, que no son otros que Wheeler y Woolsey...
Un matrimonio en peligro
Costume Design
Mary Brown y Steve no parecen tener suerte en el amor. Los dos son abandonados por sus parejas, quedando desencantados y convencidos de que jamás podrán volver a enamorarse. Es así como deciden embarcarse en un matrimonio de conveniencia, pero cuando sus antiguos amantes intenten acercarse de nuevo a ellos deberán decidir qué es lo que realmente les importa...
Secret Service
Costume Design
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
Son éstos nuestros hijos?
Costume Design
¨Un buen chico sin antecedentes comete un robo, mata a un anciano y termina en el corredor de la muerte. Las autoridades tratan de averiguar qué lo llevó a cometerlo.
Volver a casa
Costume Design
Seth Parker acoge a Robbie Turner y lo protege de su cruel padre Rube. Cuando éste desaparece, Seth trata de criar a Robbie como si fuera su propio hijo.
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Art Direction
Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
Fanny Foley Herself
Art Direction
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
Fanny Foley Herself
Costume Design
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
Friends and Lovers
Costume Design
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
Astucia de mujer
Costume Design
Nancy Gibson, una millonaria que cuando vuelve a Nueva York tras una estancia en París, se entera que su marido se ha encaprichado de una joven bailarina con la que pretende casarse. Para evitarlo, Nancy trama un plan aportando la 'astucia de mujer' de su título y se muestra completamente indiferente hacia la nueva situación. Todo se complicará aún más cuando ella...
The Gay Diplomat
Costume Design
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
High Stakes
Costume Design
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.
The Woman Between
Costume Design
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
The Public Defender
Scenic Artist
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
The Public Defender
Costume Design
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Three Who Loved
Costume Design
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
Transgression
Costume Design
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Young Donovan's Kid
Art Direction
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
Everything’s Rosie
Costume Design
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Cracked Nuts
Costume Design
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
Bachelor Apartment
Costume Design
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
Bachelor Apartment
Art Direction
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
Laugh and Get Rich
Costume Design
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Trás las Puertas Cerradas
Costume Design
Mary Linden es una secretaria que se enamora de un compañero que no está ni por asomo a su altura, rechazando a muchos otros, por el que considera el hombre de sus sueños, y al que llevará “sutilmente” a la cima en el mundo de los negocios.
The Lady Refuses
Scenic Artist
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
The Lady Refuses
Costume Design
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
Kept Husbands
Costume Design
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
Cimarrón
Costume Design
Oscarizada superproducción de la época que narra las aflicciones y tribulaciones de una familia en el viejo Oeste a lo largo de cuatro décadas, desde su llegada a Oklahoma en 1889 hasta el surgimiento de sus aspiraciones políticas en los años 20. Amores, luchas, triunfos y separaciones, además de la famosa y verídica carrera de diligencias son los ingredientes de uno de los mayores éxitos de la RKO.
Beau Ideal
Costume Design
Un estadounidense se alista en la Legión Extranjera Francesa, con el fin de rescatar a un amigo de la infancia.
The Royal Bed
Scenic Artist
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
The Royal Bed
Costume Design
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
Hook, Line and Sinker
Costume Design
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
The Silver Horde
Costume Design
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
The Pay-Off
Costume Design
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
Check and Double Check
Art Direction
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
Check and Double Check
Costume Design
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
Half Shot at Sunrise
Costume Design
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
Danger Lights
Costume Design
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
Conspiracy
Costume Design
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
Dixiana
Costume Design
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
Shooting Straight
Costume Design
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
Shooting Straight
Art Direction
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
Inside the Lines
Art Direction
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
The Fall Guy
Art Direction
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
The Runaway Bride
Art Direction
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
The Cuckoos
Art Direction
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
He Knew Women
Art Direction
A novelist has to chose between his wealthy patron and a penniless romantic.
Alias French Gertie
Art Direction
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.
Lovin' the Ladies
Art Direction
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Beau Bandit
Art Direction
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.
Second Wife
Art Direction
A man's pregnant second wife gets upset when he decides to go overseas to his young son, who may be dying of typhoid fever.
Girl of the Port
Art Direction
Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way home she is befriended by a local man who gets her a job working as a barmaid at The Bamboo Bar. There she meets an alcoholic World War I veteran who is haunted by his wartime experiences and has an irrational fear of fire. Under her concerned care, he begins to recover and they fall in love. But then her jealous self-appointed boyfriend forces the veteran to participate in a traditional Fijian fire-walking ritual. To overcome his terror he must walk across 20 feet of burning coals and fight his rival to reach Josie's loving arms.
Love Comes Along
Costume Design
An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding about her feelings toward the local dictator threatens their happiness.
Love Comes Along
Art Direction
An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding about her feelings toward the local dictator threatens their happiness.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Art Direction
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.
Tanned Legs
Art Direction
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
Jazz Heaven
Art Direction
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
Night Parade
Art Direction
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
Half Marriage
Art Direction
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
The Delightful Rogue
Art Direction
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
Side Street
Art Direction
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Street Girl
Costume Design
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
Street Girl
Art Direction
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
The Man and the Moment
Costume Design
Rich lout marries for freedom.
Broadway Babies
Costume Design
Una muchacha quiere ser artista al tiempo que ha decidir entre dos amores.
The Squall
Costume Design
En Hungría, una próspera y feliz familia de granjeros acoge a una muchacha gitana, Nubi, cuando huye de su cruel patrón. Su naturaleza seductora pronto causa problemas entre los hombres de la casa.
Why Be Good?
Costume Design
Un flapper con una dudosa reputación disfruta de una noche vivaz de baile y sin saber muy bien cómo se encuentra vinculada románticamente a su jefe.
Weary River
Costume Design
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
His Captive Woman
Costume Design
Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCarthy, a New York detective, is sent after Anna and arrests her, chartering a steamer to bring her back to the United States. The steamer sinks, and Anna and Tom are stranded on a small island. They fall in love, and Tom's influence brings about a benign change in Anna's character. They are rescued, however, and Anna is placed on trial for her life. Tom takes the stand in her defense and informs the judge of Anna's conversion in the solitude of the island. The judge instructs Tom to marry Anna and then sentences them to life--on the island where they found happiness together.
The Barker
Costume Design
A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement with a showgirl, and his own jealous mistress.
La marcha nupcial
Costume Design
En 1914 en Viena, durante los últimos años de la dinastía de los Ausburgo, el príncipe Nicki von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg se enamora de una joven humilde llamada Mitzi, a la que también pretende un grosero y vulgar carnicero llamado Schani, que es arrestado tras amenazar a Nicki. Durante una orgía en un prostíbulo, el príncipe Otokar, padre de Nicki, un hombre arruinado, acuerda con un hombre rico pero necesitado de un título nobiliario llamado Fortunat Schweisser, que su poco agraciada hija, una joven coja llamada Cecilia, se case con Nicky a cambio de un millón de coronas. Al principio Nicki se niega a esta boda acordada haciendo ver a sus padres que él está enamorado de Mitzi, pero su madre la princesa María le hace ver que necesitan el dinero que solo esa boda les puede proporcionar.
The Yellow Lily
Costume Design
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
The Noose
Costume Design
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
The Scarlet Letter
Costume Design
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.