Sam Benson

Nascimento : 1886-01-01, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1957-06-13

História

Sam Benson was born on January 1, 1886 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for his work on A Hatful of Rain (1957), All About Eve (1950) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940). He died on June 13, 1957 in West Hollywood, California, USA.

Filmes

O Mundo da Fantasia
Wardrobe Assistant
A saga da família Donahue, que sempre se dedicou ao mundo dos espetáculos. A filha deseja ser uma grande estrela, um dos filhos decidiu ser padre, mas o outro, um dançarino, se apaixona por uma jovem que sonha ardentemente em ser cantora e não está disposta a perder nenhuma oportunidade que possa ajudar seu grande objetivo.
The Raid
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A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
Anjo do Mal
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O batedor de carteiras Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) rouba Candy (Jean Peters) no metrô. Ele ainda não sabe, mas dentro da bolsa que acabou de pegar está um pedaço de microfilme com importantes segredos do governo. Candy tenta seduzir Skip para recuperar o material, mas acaba se apaixonando pelo bandido, que agora está na mira da polícia e dos comunistas – verdadeiros donos do filme.
Torrentes de Paixão
Costume Supervisor
George e Rose Loomis estão em lua de mel em Niagara Falls, mas ele não sabe que sua infiel mulher planeja o seu assassinato forjando um falso suicídio, com a ajuda do amante a quem pede que mate o seu marido.
Baionetas Caladas
Wardrobe Master
A história de um pelotão durante a Guerra da Coreia. Um por um os superiores do Cabo Denno vão sendo mortos chegando ao ponto em que ele deve tentar assumir a responsabilidade de comando.
Homens-Rãs
Costume Design
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
O Matador
Costume Design
Jimmy Ringo é o gatilho mais rápido do oeste, mas ele está ficando cansado de tudo e gostaria de se aposentar. Mas onde quer que vá, há sempre algum garoto durão que quer tentar vencê-lo num duelo.
A Rua Sem Nome
Wardrobe Supervisor
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
Sitting Pretty
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Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Sublime Devoção
Wardrobe Designer
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Anna Karenina
Costume Supervisor
Anna Karenina (Vivien Leigh), uma jovem russa é requisitada por sua irmã, Dolly Oblonsky (Mary Kerridge), para ajudar na conciliação com seu marido, após uma briga entre os dois. Karenina embarca para Moscou a fim de consolar e ajudar a irmã. No trem ela conhece a Condessa Vronsky (Helen Haye), cuja chegada é aguardada por seu filho, Coronel Vronsky (Austin Trevor). Ao chegar na estação, Vronsky e Karenina se apaixonam no instante em que seus olhares cruzam. Eles continuam a se esbarrarem em festas e eventos sociais, até que o sentimento se torna incontrolável e eles decidem se encontrar a sós. No entanto, Karenina é uma mulher casada e eles precisam ter cautela para não serem descobertos.
O Beijo da Morte
Wardrobe Supervisor
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
O Fantasma Apaixonado
Costume Design
Um ano após a morte do marido, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) decide não mais viver com a sogra e a cunhada e aluga o "Chalé Gaivota", uma casa a beira-mar, e para lá se muda com sua filha e sua empregada. Porém, logo o fantasma de Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), o falecido proprietário da casa que morrera em um suposto suicídio, surge para a amendrontá-la, mas isto não surte efeito e entre os dois nasce gradativamente uma amizade. Assim, quando ela se vê em uma grave situação financeira, ele decide lhe narrar sua vida para ser transformada em livro e tirá-la deste aperto. Posteriormente, Lucy acaba conhecendo um escritor de histórias para crianças e pensa em se casar com ele. Apesar de não concordar com esta decisão, Daniel decide não mais aparecer e fazer com que Lucy acredite que todas as conversas que tiveram juntos foi produto da imaginação dela.
Envolto nas Sombras
Wardrobe Supervisor
Investigador particular Bradford Galt mudou-se para Nova Iorque vindo de San Francisco depois de cumprir uma pena de prisão por culpa de seu parceiro advogado Tony Jardine. Quando ele descobre que alguém o está seguindo, e possivelmente tentando matá-lo, Galt acredita que Jardine está por trás disso. Ele descobre que é um pouco mais do que isso, e está cada vez mais feliz por ter sua atraente nova secretária Kathleen, por várias razões.
Um Passeio ao Sol / Caminhada Sob o Sol
Costume Design
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
Laços Humanos
Wardrobe Supervisor
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Laura
Costume Supervisor
Baseado em um conto de Vera Caspary, este mistério sobre o assassinato da personagem principal mostra um detetive se apaixonando pelo retrato dessa bela vítima. Ele investiga três suspeitos para tentar solucionar o crime: um jornalista, o noivo de Laura, a vítima, e sua tia.
Mais Forte que a Vida
Costume Design
Um drama da WW2 que foi produzido para fins de moral. Esta é a história da tripulação de um bombardeio abatido, capturado após uma missão sobre Tóquio, no início da guerra. Relaciona as dificuldades que os homens suportam enquanto estão em cativeiro e a sua humilhação final: ser julgado e condenado como criminoso de guerra.
Claudia
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Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.
O Cisne Negro
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Quando o notório pirata Henry Morgan é nomeado governador da Jamaica, ele pede a ajuda de alguns de seus ex-parceiros para livrar o Caribe dos Bucaneiros. Quando um deles aparentemente seqüestra a linda filha do governador anterior e se junta aos rebeldes, as coisas estão prontas para uma briga. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Consciências Mortas
Costume Design
Dois vagabundos estão passando por uma cidade no oeste, quando chega a notícia de que um fazendeiro local foi assassinado e seu gado roubado. As pessoas da cidade se juntam aos vagabundos, formam uma patrulha para capturar os criminosos. Eles encontram três homens na posse do gado, e estão determinados a ver a justiça ser feita no local. Quando uma patrulha alcança três homens suspeitos de matar um fazendeiro local, alguns deles ficam fortemente divididos sobre se devem ou não linchar os homens.
This Above All
Wardrobe Designer
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Formosa Bandida
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After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
Vinhas da Ira
Costume Supervisor
Tom, filho mais velho de uma pobre família de trabalhadores rurais, retorna para casa após cumprir pena por homicídio involuntário. Ele planeja levar os parentes até a Califórnia, onde dizem que trabalho não falta. Durante a viagem eles passam por diversos tipos de provações e quando finalmente chegam na "Terra Prometida" descobrem que é um lugar bem pior do que aquele que deixaram.
Sonho de Moça
Costume Supervisor
Rebecca é uma garotinha talentosa deixada aos cuidados de sua tia Miranda. Seu vizinho Anthony Kent, um caçador de talentos, leva-a secretamente para participar de um programa de rádio, onde a garota irá se transformar em um sucesso.
The Great Hospital Mystery
Wardrobe Designer
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Seventh Heaven
Wardrobe Designer
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
Love Is News
Wardrobe Master
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
High Tension
Meek-Mannered Man
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Steamboat Round the Bend
Costume Design
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Caravan
Wardrobe Designer
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
A Queridinha da Família
Wardrobe Designer
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
Hoopla
Wardrobe Supervisor
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Pilgrimage
Wardrobe Supervisor
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
State Fair
Costume Design
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Robbers' Roost
Wardrobe Assistant
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.
6 Hours to Live
Costume Design
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
Skyline
Wardrobe Master
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
Quick Millions
Costume Design
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Oh, for a Man!
Wardrobe Supervisor
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
Rio Acima
Wardrobe Master
Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
Upstream
Costume Supervisor
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
3 Bad Men
Costume Design
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
Thank You
Wardrobe Supervisor
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay on a chicken farm in the small village of Dedham. On the day he arrives there pretty Diane Lee, the niece of local Rev. David Lee, arrives from Paris. A few days later Kenneth, reverting back to his wild ways, gets drunk and makes a spectacle of himself, but rather than reproving him, Rev. Lee gives him a heart-to-heart talk and gets Kenneth to turn his life around. Meanwhile, the reverend--barely able to get by on the pittance the local vestrymen pay him--asks for a raise but is denied it, being told that he must send Diane away before they'll even consider giving him any extra money. Soon afterward Kenneth falls gravely ill. His father, hearing of Kenneth's condition and of his infatuation with Diane, arrives at the village to see his son and isn't ready for what he finds.
Lightnin'
Costume Design
Set in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy follows a female hotel owner's efforts to turn a profit and get some work out of her husband.