Henry Blanke

Nascimento : 1901-12-30, Steglitz, Berlin, Germany

Morte : 1981-05-28

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Blanke (December 30, 1901 – May 28, 1981) was a German-born film producer who also worked as an assistant director, supervisor, writer, and production manager. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Nun's Story (1959). He was born Heinz Blanke in Steglitz, Berlin, Germany, the son of painter Wilhelm Blanke. He began his career as a film cutter in 1920. Blanke became an assistant to Ernst Lubitsch and was the production manager of Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. He produced nine films in his native Germany before emigrating to Hollywood. He became a power at Warner Bros., working there for decades. Among his Hollywood producing credits are: Of Human Bondage (1946), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and The Fountainhead (1949). When the announced production of The Life of Emile Zola (1937) came under fire from Georg Gyssling, the Nazi German consul to the United States (due to its portrayal of Alfred Dreyfus, who was of Jewish descent), Blanke lied to him, telling him the Dreyfus affair was only a small part of the film. The Online Archive of California has a transcript of his oral recollections.

Filmes

O Inferno é Para os Heróis
Producer
A realidade brutal que todos os G.I. enfrentaram durante a II Guerra Mundial. Um pequeno esquadrão deve segurar o ataque alemão. Focado em torno da ação de uma única manobra realizada por um pelotão de soldados americanos em retaliação contra a força alemã da linha de Siegfried. Reese se junta a um grupo de soldados cansados que, ​​inesperadamente, receberam a ordem de voltar para a linha de frente quando estavam a caminho da área de descanso.Enquanto a maioria dos homens se retiram de suas posições diante de uma casamata alemã, no lado mais distante de um campo de minas, meia dúzia de homens são deixados para proteger uma vasta frente.
Um Raio em Céu Sereno
Producer
Enquanto o regime nazista subjuga as nações europeias, no Congo Belga, a Dra. Rachel Cade tenta curar a população local. O coronel Derode se apaixona por ela, mas um jovem piloto americano ferido atrapalha seus planos.
Cash McCall
Producer
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.
O Gigante de Gelo
Producer
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
O Milagre
Producer
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
Uma Cruz à Beira do Abismo
Producer
Em 1930, o jovem Gabrielle Van der Mal entra em um convento em sua Bélgica natal para se tornar uma freira. Quase imediatamente, ela tem dificuldade para se ajustar à vida de clausura, e seu votos de pobreza, castidade e obediência. Ela duvida a sua própria capacidade, mesmo quando ela faz seus votos perpétuos. Gabrielle, agora chamada de Irmã Luke, se destaca em seus estudos médicos e sonhos de servir no Congo Belga.
Westbound
Producer
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.
Too Much, Too Soon
Producer
The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore becomes reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.
Serenata
Producer
Um jovem trabalhador do campo sonha ser cantor de ópera. Ao cantar em um restaurante, ele é descoberto por uma socialite por quem se apaixona e que lança sua carreira. Ao ser abandonado por ela, ele vai para o México e se apaixona por outra mulher.
Sincerely Yours
Producer
He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive the Liberace magic in his only starring film, Sincerely Yours. In a poignant story scripted by Irving Wallace, Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from personal sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a warmly humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the 1950s matinee idol of the little-old-lady set. From beginning to end, Sincerely Yours perfectly captures the charisma and sheer musicality of the legendary Mr. Showmanship.
Corações Enamorados
Producer
As vidas e os romances de três irmãs em uma família musical; a vida da filha mais nova é complicada com a chegada de um compositor encantador e depois a chegada de um arranjador de música cínico. Quando Alex Burke (Gig Young) entra na vida da família musical Tuttle, cada uma das três filhas se apaixona por ele. Ele é encantador, bonito e charmoso. Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day) e Alex parecem feitos um para o outro e começam a namorar. Quando Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) entra em cena para ajudar Alex com alguns arranjos musicais as coisas ficam complicadas. Ele é visto como um desafio por Laurie, que não pode acreditar que alguém pudesse ser tão cínico. - traduzido de Ron Kerrigan
Com o Céu no Coração
Producer
Uma trupe teatral de quatro pessoas está trabalhando no hotel, pois eles foram ao caro restaurante do hotel e não tinham dinheiro para pagar a conta! E foram forçados a trabalhar na cozinha. Flo Neely (Nancy Walker) é a única que trabalha como camareira e descobre Dick Carson (Robert Cummings) em sua suíte e faz um teste de improviso para ele. Ele não gosta e a dispensa. Eles insistem e finalmente conseguem fazer um número para o Carson e ele se apaixona por Candy Williams (Doris Day). O título do filme em inglês é porque Candy é totalmente supersticiosa e tromba com coisas ruins o tempo todo, por isso ela se chama Lucky Me, me dê sorte. (traduzido de Rich Wall)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Producer
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.
So Big
Producer
After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.
Nenhuma Mulher Vale Tanto (The Iron Mistress)
Producer
Neste filme biográfico, Jim Bowie vai para Nova Orleans, onde se apaixona por Judalon e torna-se amigo de seu irmão, Narcisse. Logo, Jim é forçado a vingar o assassinato de Narcisse, mas Judalon pega outro homem. Jim acaba tendo outro interlúdio romântico com Judalon e é forçado a matar um de seus pretendentes em legítima defesa. Jim deixa a cidade e se apaixona pela filha de um político do Texas, mas seu envolvimento com Judalon continua a atormentá-lo.
Operation Secret
Producer
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
Sempre Cabe Mais Um
Producer
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
Come Fill The Cup
Producer
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Producer
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
Goodbye, My Fancy
Producer
Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Producer
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Cinzas ao Vento
Producer
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
A Filha de Satanás
Producer
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
Vontade Indômita
Producer
Howard Roark é um jovem arquiteto idealista e individualista, que deseja realizar um trabalho inovador e sem interferências, mas encontra resistência por parte do articulista do jornal "The Banner" Elsworth Toohey, que prefere apoiar medíocres e manipuláveis como Peter Keating. Roark fica sem clientes e para não contrariar seus princípios, fecha seu escritório e vai trabalhar como operário em uma pedreira, onde conhece a rica Dominique. (Gerigato)
Noiva da Primavera
Producer
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong...
The Woman in White
Producer
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.
Encontro no Inverno
Producer
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
O Tesouro de Sierra Madre
Producer
Dois vagabundos e um garimpeiro grisalho descobrem um verdadeiro tesouro em ouro, mas a ganância e a paranoia vai rapidamente se apoderar de todos neste clássico sobre o poder da riqueza escondida nas montanhas e a avareza que se esconde no coração dos homens. e 12.
Quero-te Junto a Mim
Producer
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
Deep Valley
Producer
A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.
Mansão da Loucura
Producer
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
Que o Céu a Condene
Producer
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Of Human Bondage
Producer
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
Minha Reputação
Producer
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
O Preço da Felicidade
Producer
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Producer
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Uma Velha Amizade
Producer
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
De Amor Também Se Morre
Producer
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
Revolta!
Producer
Depois de dois anos sob o domínio alemão, uma pequena vila de pescadores noruegueses se levanta e se revolta contra os nazistas que a ocupam.
As Três Herdeiras
Producer
The eldest (Barbara Stanwyck) of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer (George Brent) she once married.
Blues in the Night
Producer
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
Relíquia Macabra
Producer
Um detetive particular (Humphrey Bogart) é procurado por uma mulher misteriosa (Mary Astor), que alega estar sendo ameaçada. Mas tanto o seu perseguidor quanto o homem encarregado de protegê-la aparecem mortos e tudo gira em torno de uma estátua de falcão de valor incalculável. Foi lançado no Brasil com o título "Relíquia Macabra".
Quando a Noite Cai
Associate Producer
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
A Grande Mentira
Associate Producer
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
O Lobo do Mar
Producer
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
Honeymoon for Three
Associate Producer
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
Four Mothers
Associate Producer
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
O Gavião do Mar
Associate Producer
Enquanto a Espanha prepara um exército para invadir a Inglaterra, o pirata britânico Geoffrey Thorpe embarca em uma missão para saquear barcos espanhóis. Quando ele captura o barco que transportava o embaixador Don Jose Alvarez de Cordoba, o vistoso capitão apaixona-se por sua sobrinha, a bela Dona Maria, que se instala confortavelmente na Inglaterra. Dedicado a proteger os interesses ingleses, Thorpe vai para o mar em uma perigosa expedição que pode determinar o destino do país.
Quatro Esposas
Associate Producer
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
We Are Not Alone
Associate Producer
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Eu Soube Amar
Associate Producer
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Filhas Corajosas
Associate Producer
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Juarez
Associate Producer
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
As Aventuras de Robin Hood
Producer
Quando o Rei Richard é capturado, seu irmão, o Príncipe John planeja em alcançar o trono, para a revolta do senhor Robin de Locksley, o rei bandido da floresta de Sherwood. Com o seu bando de homens e ganhando o suporte de Maid Marian, Robin acusa o Príncipe John de traição. Quando o fugitivo Richard volta para a Inglaterra, ele junta forças com o rei para impedir que o Príncipe John tome a coroa.
Jezebel
Associate Producer
Em 1852, em Nova Orleans, uma jovem egocêntrica da aristocracia local provoca o rompimento do seu noivado ao usar um vestido vermelho, quando as moças deviam usar branco. Apesar de seu antigo noivo se casar com outra mulher, ela continua amando-o. Ela tem a grande chance de lhe provar que realmente deixou de ser uma jovem mimada quando uma peste se abate sobre a cidade. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
A Vida de Emile Zola
Producer
O ator Paul Muni foi o rei das chamadas cinebiografias nos Anos Dourados de Hollywood, criando uma galeria de grande interpretações. Warner Bros era o estúdio de maior evidência na época entre o gosto popular, oferecendo ao público, produções arrebatadoras e polêmicas, banhadas de contestação social. Estas duas forças do estrelato e do humanitarismo se uniram em 1937, neste marco da cinematografia: Emile Zola foi a primeira produção da Warner a ganhar o Oscar de Melhor Filme (ainda recebeu outras 10 indicações e 3 estatuetas). O filme narra a ascensão do escritor francês Emile Zola e seu envolvimento na defesa do capitão Alfred Dreyfus, um militar condenado injustamente sob a acusação de traição apenas por ser judeu. Na verdade, ele passa a se interessar pelo caso somente quando procurado pela esposa de Dreyfus, e desafia os militares publicando o famoso J'accuse, um manifesto a favor do capitão.
Green Light
Producer
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
Mais Próximo do Céu
Supervising Producer
Deus, o paraíso e várias histórias do Antigo Testamento - incluindo a criação e Arca de Noé - são descritos (supostamente) através da perspectiva de cidadãos rurais negros dos Estados Unidos.
Sonho de uma Noite de Verão
Producer
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Quando o Amor Agarra
Producer
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam
Casados em Segredo
Associate Producer
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
Espionagem
Camera Operator
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
Névoa de Mistério
Supervising Producer
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Fashions of 1934
Producer
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Easy to Love
Producer
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Convention City
Producer
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
Os Desaparecidos
Producer
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Mais Uma Vez Adeus
Producer
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?
The Silk Express
Producer
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.
Os Crimes do Museu
Producer
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Le bluffeur
Director
Parallel French-speaking version of Warners' "High Pressure" (1932), a comedy satire on fast-talking promoters, crazy inventors, and stock market hype. The story line comes from Kandel's stage play "Hot Money," which had played on Broadway a month or two in 1931, before Warners bought screen rights and changed the title.
The Holy Flames
Producer
This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.
Demon of the Sea
Producer
Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard. When he has caught the monstrous whale he will then deal with his brother.
Those who dance
Producer
The Desired Woman
Assistant Director
The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote post becomes one trial after another for Diana. Then Larry Trent, a young lieutenant, arrives to provide a pleasant reminder of days past, but Maxwell, in a jealous rage over their innocent companionship, sends Trent to a distant village.
O Terceiro Degrau
Assistant Director
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man (Underwood) to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently, he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.