Wiard B. Ihnen
Nascimento : 1897-08-04, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Morte : 1979-06-22
História
Wiard B. “Bill” Ihnen was an American art director. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of an architect, he first studied his father's profession at Columbia University. He later attended the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Ihnen was married to Edith Head from 1940 until his death in 1979, aged 81.
Production Design
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
Set Designer
One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses—especially children—this film describes the sun in scientific but entertaining terms.
Art Direction
Johnny Hawks (Kirk Douglas), um ex-lutador indiano, retorna ao Ocidente após a Guerra Civil. Ele reconhece a banda indiana liderada por Red Cloud (Eduard Franz) e sua filha, que cresceu e está linda. Mas, alguns comerciantes inescrupulosos de uísque começam a ficar atrás de ouro nas terra indianas e Hawks, para evitar derramamento de sangue, convence Red Cloud a fazer um acordo. Hawks lidera um trem que vai passando pelo território indiano, mas quando ele foge para ver a filha do chefe, os problemas entre os bravos e os comerciantes de uísque acendem-se novamente, colocando toda a missão em perigo.
Production Design
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
Production Design
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
Art Direction
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in his first film adventure. Originally screened in 3D.
Production Design
Um homem em busca de vingança infiltra-se em um rancho, escondido em uma região inóspita, onde seu proprietário, Altar Keane, dá abrigo a foras-da-lei que fogem da lei em troca de um preço.
Production Design
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
Production Design
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Production Design
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
Art Direction
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Art Direction
A star hockey player with the Wildcats is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ice-show as the novelty act.
Art Direction
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
Art Direction
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
Art Direction
Um tenente submarino e seu comandante se apaixonam pela mesma garota.
Contra sua preferência pessoal, o comandante da embarcação PT Ward Stewart é nomeado diretor executivo do submarino USS Corsair. De licença antes de zarpar, ele conhece a professora Jean Hewlett e fica apaixonado... sem saber que ela é a queridinha de Dewey Connors, seu novo comandante. No mar, os homens criam um relacionamento enquanto lutam contra os navios alemães. Quando eles descobrirão sua rivalidade romântica mútua? Será que isso vai interferir num ataque de comando espetacular à uma base secreta alemã?
Art Direction
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
Art Direction
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
Art Direction
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Art Direction
British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Art Direction
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Art Direction
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
Art Direction
Frank James deixou sua vida de crimes e se tornou um pacífico fazendeiro. Nem quando Clem Tom Grayson, um jovem e grande amigo, lhe conta que Jesse James foi baleado pelas costas pelos irmãos Ford, Frank procura se vingar, pois crê na justiça. Aparentemente isto acontece, pois Bob e Charles são condenados por assassinato. Porém meia hora após o veredicto o governador lhes dá total perdão, e ainda recebem uma recompensa. Ao ver isto Frank constata que precisa fazer justiça com as próprias mãos.
Art Direction
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Art Direction
Mytyl e Tyltyl são irmãos que acabam sendo levados em uma encantadora viagem pelo passado, presente e futuro. Eles conhecem os poderes da natureza em busca do pássaro azul da felicidade.
Art Direction
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Art Direction
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
Art Direction
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
Art Direction
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
Art Direction
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
Assistant Art Director
Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins) e Amelia Sedley (Frances Dee) são colegas de escola, mas Becky, órfã vinda de uma família de artistas, é de classe social bastante baixa. Ambiciosa, ela sonha em conseguir se casar com um homem rico, para então pertencer à alta sociedade.
Aos poucos, Becky consegue adentrar a família de Amelia, e começa a demonstrar interesse por Joseph (Nigel Bruce), irmão de sua amiga. Mas como ele, apesar de interessado na moça, resolve não propor casamento à uma pobretona, Becky abandona a casa dos Sedley.
Ela começa então a traçar um novo plano para alcançar seus objetivos: armada de charme, beleza, e um particular talento para a farsa, Becky consegue, aos poucos, escalar o seu caminho para classes cada vez mais altas. Mas uma falta de cálculo pode custar à moça mais do que ela pode imaginar...
Art Direction
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
Art Direction
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
Art Direction
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Art Direction
Rufus T. Firefly é nomeado presidente/ditador da corrupta Freedonia e declara guerra à sua vizinha, Sylvania, disputando o amor da rica Sra. Teasdale.
Art Direction
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Art Direction
Uma cantora de cabaré faz acordo com um milionário para pagar a operação do marido gravemente doente.
O químico americano Ned Faraday (Herbert Marshall) se casa com Helen (Marlene Dietrich), uma cantora de cabaré alemã, e começam uma família. Então Ned se envenena com Radium e precisa de um tratamento caro na Alemanha para ter alguma chance de ser curado. A esposa Helen volta ao trabalho no clube noturno para tentar ganhar dinheiro e pagar o tratamento e acaba se tornando popular como a Vênus Loura. Em um esforço para conseguir dinheiro suficiente mais rápido, ela se prostitui com o milionário Nick Townsend (Cary Grant). (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Art Direction
The film is based on an ethnic Jewish comedy with characters created by Montague Glass and Charles Klein.
Art Direction
An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.