Esdras Hartley

Nacimiento : 1892-09-03, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1946-01-27

Historia

From Wikipedia Esdras Hartley (1892–1946) was a screen art director. He worked on over a hundred films during his career, many of them at the Warner Brothers studio.

Películas

The Body Disappears
Art Direction
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
Highway West
Art Direction
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Flight from Destiny
Art Direction
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
The Case of the Black Parrot
Art Direction
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
South of Suez
Art Direction
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.
Ladies Must Live
Art Direction
A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
An Angel from Texas
Art Direction
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
El regreso del Doctor X
Art Direction
Una actriz teatral es asesinada, por lo que un reportero da de inmediato la primicia en su periódico; sin embargo, al día siguiente aparece aquella con vida para desmentirlo todo. El extraño hecho despierta la curiosidad del citado periodista que, junto con un joven médico, se pone a investigar, descubriendo que uno de los implicados es el reputado Dr. Flegg, cuyo asistente es el extraño y frío Doctor X...
On Dress Parade
Art Direction
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Everybody's Hobby
Art Direction
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
Indianapolis Speedway
Art Direction
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
On Trial
Art Direction
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
El chico de Oklahoma
Art Direction
La banda de McCord (Bogart) roba el dinero que lleva la diligencia para pagar a los indios por la compra de sus tierras, pero el proscrito Jim Kincaid (Cagney), alias "el chico de Oklahoma", roba a su vez a McCord el dinero. Más tarde, McCord se hace con el control de los salones de juego en la nueva ciudad. Cuando el padre de Kincaid decide presentarse a la elecciones para la alcaldía de la nueva ciudad, McCord incita a multitud para lincharlo, ya que sabe que si gana su negocio se vendría abajo.
Wings of the Navy
Art Direction
Dos hermanos pilotos de aviación se disputan la misma mujer.
Racket Busters
Art Direction
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Art Direction
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Over the Wall
Art Direction
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Swing Your Lady
Art Direction
Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.
Submarine D-1
Art Direction
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
Alcatraz Island
Art Direction
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Talent Scout
Art Direction
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Public Wedding
Art Direction
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Fly Away Baby
Art Direction
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
The Case Of The Stuttering Bishop
Art Direction
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
San Quentin
Art Direction
El nuevo capitán de patio de la penitenciaría de San Quentin quiere hacer de los años de cárcel de los reclusos un tiempo para la reinserción, en lugar de para el castigo. Pero no todo el mundo está de acuerdo. Steve Jameson (Pat O'Brien) pretende unas reformas a base de incentivos y amenazas. Una huelga de reclusos y un presidiario estafador que birla un rifle son algunos de los problemas a los que tendrá que hacer frente Jameson. Otro es el recluso Red (Humphrey Bogart), al principio influenciado, pero que vuelve a ver las cosas como antiguamente, y trata de conseguir su libertad de forma violenta.
Melody for Two
Art Direction
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
That Man's Here Again
Art Direction
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
Isle of Fury
Art Direction
An island fugitive and his bride make room for a shipwrecked detective.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Art Direction
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Hot Money
Art Direction
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Earthworm Tractors
Art Direction
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
Two Against the World
Art Direction
A radio-network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved.
The Law in Her Hands
Art Direction
A female lawyer (Margaret Lindsay) sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
Times Square Playboy
Art Direction
A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
Brides Are Like That
Art Direction
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
Man Hunt
Art Direction
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Freshman Love
Art Direction
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Miss Pacific Fleet
Art Direction
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Keystone Hotel
Art Direction
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigeous beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Special Agent
Art Direction
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
Going Highbrow
Art Direction
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
El predilecto
Art Direction
En Nueva York viven los tres hermanos O'Hara, que son de origen irlandés: uno es policía (Pat O'Brien), otro es bombero (Frank McHugh) y el tercero es promotor de boxeo (James Cagney). Los tres se enfrentarán por el amor de una joven.
Don't Bet on Blondes
Art Direction
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Alibi Ike
Art Direction
Un jugador de beisbol que siempre pone excusas se enamora de la cuñada del entrenador. Poco después, unos gangsters le secuestran para que haga perder al equipo en la final.
Mary Jane's Pa
Art Direction
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
A Night at the Ritz
Art Direction
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
While the Patient Slept
Art Direction
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
The Woman in Red
Art Direction
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
The Right to Live
Art Direction
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
Here Comes the Navy
Art Direction
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
A la caza de herederos
Art Direction
Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney), un tipo sin escrúpulos, tiene una agencia que se dedica a buscar en la prensa diaria gente que ha muerto dejando una herencia que nadie reclama. Su plan consiste en “fabricar” a los herederos adecuados para quedarse él con la herencia. Pero sus perfectos planes acaban torciéndose.
The House on 56th Street
Art Direction
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
¡Que semana!
Art Direction
Durante una convención de una empresa de neumáticos, se suceden toda clase de desmanes sexuales y alcohólicos.
Havana Widows
Art Direction
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Wild Boys of the Road
Art Direction
En plena Gran Depresión, dos adolescentes huyen de su casa para no ser una carga para sus familias que se han quedado sin trabajo. El camino será más difícil de lo esperado.
Goodbye Again
Art Direction
Las confusiones de coqueteo abundan cuando una célebre novelista se enreda con un viejo amor y su desconcertado marido en Cleveland. ¿Su inteligente secretaria le salvará el cuello si ella también está secretamente enamorada de él?
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Art Direction
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
She Had to Say Yes
Art Direction
Una secretaria es informada de que deberá "entretener" a los clientes de la firma, de lo contrario perderá el trabajo.
Por el mal camino
Art Direction
A Patsy Gargan, un antiguo criminal, sus corruptos compinches políticos le pagan sus servicios nombrándolo inspector de un reformatorio. Al principio no muestra ningún interés por la escuela, pero la simpatía que siente por los niños que son víctimas de abusos y maltrato por parte del despiadado director y sus matones, lo empuja a aceptar el trabajo.
The Silk Express
Art Direction
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
Girl Missing
Art Direction
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Blondie Johnson
Art Direction
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
En boca de todos
Art Direction
La atractiva Nan Taylor integrante de una banda que roba un banco, va a la cárcel gracias al evangelista David Slade... que la ama.
Lawyer Man
Art Direction
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
Esclavos de la tierra
Art Direction
Primera de las muchas colaboraciones entre el director Michael Curtiz y la actriz Bette Davis, dos de los máximos exponentes de la Warner Bros. En esta ocasión las críticas no fueron excesivamente buenas ante la propuesta de drama social, si bien la actriz -todavía en los albores de su impresionante carrera- salió bien parada de todas ellas. La novela de Harry Harrison Kroll en que se basa, narra la historia de un honrado agricultor llamado Marvin (Richard Barthelmess) contratado en una plantación. Al ascender al puesto de contable descubre que su jefe ha estado robando dinero. Es entonces cuando este hombre inicia una lucha de clases liderando al pueblo oprimido contra el poder establecido. También Marvin tiene tiempo para un romance con la hija del jefe y con una amiga de la infancia.
Life Begins
Art Direction
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Stranger in Town
Art Direction
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
The Tenderfoot
Art Direction
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
The Mouthpiece
Art Direction
Tras la ejecución de un inocente, un joven fiscal deja su cargo y se hace abogado defensor. Se hace rico y poderoso defendiendo mafiosos, pero pronto verá el error de esta decisión.
Taxi!
Art Direction
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Ilusión juvenil
Art Direction
Un rico productor teatral atrae a una joven chica desesperada a su apartamento. La inocente chica no se da cuenta que el lujurioso productor está planeando hacer algo más que tomar una copa con ella.
Expensive Women
Art Direction
A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors.
Gente viva
Art Direction
Un botones estafador y su novia camarera están establecidos en un hotel.
Alexander Hamilton
Art Direction
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Bought!
Art Direction
Stephanie, hija de madre soltera, se debate entre un hombre mayor y rico, y otro joven pero menos adinerado. Un día, el hombre mayor descubre que es su padre y decide protegerla. Se relaciona con otro hombre que le propone matrimonio, ero la rechaza al averiguar que sus padres nunca se casaron. Al final, no obstante, encontrará el verdadero amor y descubrirá quién es su padre
Entre dos corazones
Art Direction
Amor y muerte. Paz y guerra. Tempestad en las almas de los hombres encendida por el amor de una mujer, y tempestad de metralla en los campos desencadenada por el odio y la rivalidad de las naciones… Historia de dos hermanos enamorados de una misma muchacha, que sin quererlo destroza el afecto fraternal de aquellos, haciendo de uno el favorito de su corazón y haciendo que el otro haga el sacrificio heroico y voluntario de su vida, en las trincheras, devoradoras de vidas...
The Midnight Taxi
Art Direction
The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
The First Auto
Art Direction
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
Clash of the Wolves
Art Direction
A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girl friend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.
The Lighthouse by the Sea
Art Direction
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
Beau Brummel
Technical Supervisor
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
Los peligros del Flirt
Art Direction
El profesor Stock y su mujer Mizzi siempre están peleándose. Mizzi trata un día de de seducir al Dr. Franz Braun, el nuevo marido de su buena amiga Charlotte. Un colega del Dr. Braun, el Dr. Mueller, que está enamorado de Charlotte, ve este flirteo de Mizzi como una buena oportunidad para él, aunque Franz y Charlotte son un matriminio felizmente casado. Por un malentendido, Charlotte piensa que su marido está interesado en la Srta. Hofer, y piede a Mizzi que le mantenga ocupado. Mientras, el profesor Stock comienza a sospechar de su mujer, y contrata a un detective para que la espíe, con la esperanza de obtener pruebas para un divorcio.