Harry Rapf

Harry Rapf

出生 : 1880-10-16, New York City, New York, USA

死亡 : 1949-02-06

略歴

Harry Rapf (16 October 1880 – 6 February 1949) was an American film producer. Rapf began his career in 1917, and during a 20-year career became a well-known producer of films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He created the comedic duo Dane & Arthur featuring Karl Dane and George K. Arthur in the late 1920s. Rapf was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Scene of the Crime
Producer
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Gallant Bess
Producer
Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.)
名犬ラッシー 家路
Executive Producer
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
Joe Smith, American
Executive Producer
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
The Ice Follies of 1939
Producer
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
Let Freedom Ring
Producer
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
The Girl Downstairs
Producer
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Producer
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Producer
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.
Live, Love and Learn
Producer
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
They Gave Him a Gun
Producer
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
The Good Old Soak
Producer
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
Espionage
Producer
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention
Himself
This short film chronicles various events associated with MGM's 1937 convention for the studio's national sales and distribution staff.
Mad Holiday
Producer
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Tough Guy
Producer
An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.
Whipsaw
Producer
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
Trained Hoofs
Producer
This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.
The Murder Man
Producer
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
Donkey Baseball
Producer
This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.
The Night Is Young
Producer
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
A Wicked Woman
Producer
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
The Chief
Producer
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Tugboat Annie
Associate Producer
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
Hollywood Premiere
Scenario Writer
Two strip Technicolor short film. While the film is considered lost, the Library of Congress has acquired a musical sequence from the film.
New Morals for Old
Producer
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
The Passionate Plumber
Producer
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
The Champ
Producer
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Producer
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years.
Min and Bill
Producer
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Producer
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
ブロードウェイ・メロディー
Producer
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Dance Madness
Executive Producer
May s married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser. During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked dancer and trying to seduce him.
グリード
Production Manager
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Where the North Begins
Producer
Action adventure set in the wilds of Alaska
Rags to Riches
Producer
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him. -from IMDB.com
Your Best Friend
Producer
A Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.