Esdras Hartley

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

死亡 : 1946-01-27

略歴

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.

参加作品

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.
The Return of Doctor X
Art Direction
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
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.
The Oklahoma Kid
Art Direction
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
Wings of the Navy
Art Direction
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
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.
The Irish in Us
Art Direction
A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.
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
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
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.
Jimmy the Gent
Art Direction
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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.
Convention City
Art Direction
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
Havana Widows
Art Direction
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Wild Boys of the Road
Art Direction
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Goodbye Again
Art Direction
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
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
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.
The Mayor of Hell
Art Direction
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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.
Ladies They Talk About
Art Direction
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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.
The Cabin in the Cotton
Art Direction
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
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.
Under Eighteen
Art Direction
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
Expensive Women
Art Direction
A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors.
腕の男
Art Direction
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Alexander Hamilton
Art Direction
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Bought!
Art Direction
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
Chances
Art Direction
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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.
The Marriage Circle
Art Direction
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are uhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife, hires a detective to spy on her in hopes of obtaining a divorce. Mizzi sets her sights on seducing Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Dr. Braun's colleague, Dr. Mueller, who has his eye on Charlotte, sees this as his opportunity. Through a misunderstanding, Charlotte thinks that her husband is interested in Miss Hofer, and asks Mizzi to keep him occupied... around and around the circle goes in Lubitsch's refined comedy of mistaken infidelity.