Robert Stevenson
Nascimento : 1905-03-31, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Morte : 1986-04-30
História
Robert Stevenson (31 March 1905, Buxton, Derbyshire – 30 April 1986) was an English film writer and director. He was educated at Cambridge University where he became the president of both the Liberal Club and the Cambridge Union Society.
He moved to California in the 1940s and ended up directing 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, Stevenson is best remembered for directing the Julie Andrews musical Mary Poppins, for which Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Stevenson received a nomination for Best Director Oscar.
Stevenson divorced his first wife Cecilie and married actress Anna Lee in 1934. They lived on London's Bankside for five years, moving to Hollywood in 1939, where he remained for many years. They had two daughters, Venetia and Caroline, before divorcing in March 1944.
He married Frances Holyoke Howard on October 8, 1944; they later divorced. They had one son, Hugh Howard Stevenson. Robert Stevenson's widow, Ursula Henderson, appeared as herself in the documentary Locked in the Tower: The Men behind Jane Eyre in 2007.
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Um advogado faz uma importante descoberta que poderia afetar suas chances de ser eleito para o cargo.
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Filme sobre o roubo de um esqueleto de dinossauro do Museu de História Natural, cujos ossos guardam um precioso segredo: a misteriosa fórmula "Lotus X".
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Um arqueólogo americano junta-se a um rico empresário inglês, a um excêntrico inventor francês e a um caçador esquimó para uma grande expedição ao Ártico. Eles procuram por um filho desaparecido, mas descobrem um mundo esquecido pelo tempo. Um mundo dos Vikings do século X, vulcões em erupção e o lendário cemitério de baleias. "A Ilha do Topo do Mundo" é uma aventura fantástica na tradição de Júlio Verne e H.G. Wells, com todo o espetáculo e beleza, romance e comédia, que faz este um dos maiores filmes clássicos da Disney de todos os tempos e adorados por todo o público.
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Quando um ambicioso milionário decide construir um arranha-céu no terreno de uma bondosa senhora, Herbie, o fusquinha com personalidade própria, decide ajudá-la.
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Uma aprendiz de feiticeira chamada Englantine Price, acaba tendo de cuidar de três crianças sapecas. Logo, elas se vêem a bordo de uma cama voadora, com maçanetas mágicas que abrem as portas para uma aventura fantástica atrás da outra. O quarteto finalmente une forças com um divertido professo, para procurar um antigo amuleto que poderia salvar o país de terríveis invasores.
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Um repórter descobre que seu cão acidentalmente roubou um colar inestimável de uma quadrilha de contrabandistas de jóias.
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Herbie, um Fusca com personalidade própria, é desprezado por um mau caráter que é dono de uma agência de automóveis de luxo e piloto de corridas, mas o Fusca é acolhido por um piloto boa praça e, em gratidão, o pequeno carro lhe dá diversas vitórias, acabando com a maré de azar do piloto, que inicialmente não entende que foi o fusquinha quem ganhou as corridas. Porém, ele aos poucos entende que o carrinho é o principal responsável pelas vitórias e decide correr sempre com ele. Mas ambos terão que lutar contra um rico rival, que usa toda a espécie de golpes sujos para derrotá-los.
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Nesta deliciosa comédia, o premiado e talentoso ator Peter Ustinov interpreta o fantasma do lendário pirata Barba Negra. Condenado a vagar pela eternidade até que pratique uma boa ação, o malvado Barba Negra aparece em uma cidadezinha da Nova Inglaterra. Sua grande oportunidade de livar-se desta maldição surge quando ele decide ajudar uma equipe de atletas da faculdade local... que não tem a menor chance de vencer! Usando seus poderes sobrenaturais, este fantasma brincalhão e irreverente apronta as maiores trapalhadas, nesta comédia que vai fazer você morrer de rir!
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Sr. Mulrooney, dono de uma poderosa madeireira, busca seus dois netos - Rodney e Elisabeth - para uma viagem. No caminho, passam por uma floresta onde Elisabeth encontra um gnomo chamado Jasper e seu velho avô, que lhe pedem ajuda, pois são os únicos sobreviventes da devastação da madeireira.
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O gato D.C. aparece em casa com um relógio de pulso no pescoço e um pedido de ajuda nele. Desconfiada, Patti, a dona do felino, fala com o FBI acreditando que o item é de Margaret, sequestrada recentemente. Ela então se junta ao agente Zeke Kelso e seu bichinho de estimação para investigar o caso. .
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O estudioso universitário Merlin Jones encontra um método de ensino de informações avançadas a um chimpanzé, e com isso cria sua própria máquina voadora, o que causa caos no campus.
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Na Londres de 1910, o banqueiro Mr. Banks, um homem frio que trata com rigidez Jane e Michael, seus filhos sapecas, não consegue contratar uma babá, pois elas desistem facilmente do emprego. Em uma noite, enquanto redige com sua esposa um anúncio de jornal procurando uma babá, sua filha Jane aparece com uma carta mostrando como seria uma babá perfeita. Esta carta acaba chegando nas mãos de Mary Poppins, que é tudo aquilo que está descrito na carta. Mary Poppins possui poderes mágicos e, com seu amigo faz-tudo Bert, transforma a vida daquela família, com muita música, magia e diversão.
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Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk), é um rapaz inteligente que estuda a escola secundária. Tem como hobby fazer experimentos científicos. Após um curto-circuito em uma máquina de leitura cerebral, ele adquire o poder de ler mentes, o que o coloca em grandes confusões. Depois ele se mete em novos problemas ao fazer experiências com hipnotismo.
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Quando o Professor Brainard continua seus experimentos em derivados da substância Flubber, mistura das palavras inglesas "flying" (voadora) e "rubber" (borracha), ele se mete em confusões e somente seus alunos podem ajudar.
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Ninguém pode deter a agitada Mary Grant (HAYLEY MILLS) de viajar pelos quatro cantos do mundo para encontrar seu pai, Capitão Grant - mesmo que tudo o que ela saiba sobre seu paradeiro seja uma mensagem dentro de uma garrafa. Maurice Chevalier junta-se a ela nesta fantástica aventura pelo mundo. Um filme repleto de efeitos especiais, baseado no livro de Julio Verne.
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Um desmiolado professor inventa uma "borracha voadora", um incrível material que ganha energia cada vez que bate em uma superfície dura. Infelizmente ninguém acredita nele, exceto um corrupto empresário que quer roubar o invento para si mesmo.
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O jovem David junta forças com o aventureiro Alan. Falsamente acusados de assassinato, eles fogem através das montanhas para eludir aos casacas vermelhas.
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O jovem David junta forças com o aventureiro Alan. Falsamente acusados de assassinato, eles fogem através das montanhas para eludir aos casacas vermelhas.
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Pegue um pouco de folclore antigo, misture alguns efeitos especiais espetaculares e um elenco mágico (incluindo Sean Connery) - e você tem uma das fantasias mais encantadoras de todos os tempos! Um velho contador de histórias chamado Darby O'Gill está procurando desesperadamente o proverbial Pote de Ouro. Há apenas uma pequena coisa em seu caminho: um Leprechaun de 21 polegadas (53 cm) chamado King Brian. Para conseguir o ouro, Darby deve toda sua perspicácia contra o maldito malandro - o que não é um trabalho fácil, na verdade! Caia sob o feitiço de A Lenda dos Anões Mágicos para uma noite cheia de diversão de magia, alegria e malandragens sem parar!
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Um olhar de bastidores sobre as filmagens de "O Senhor da Terra" com Walt Disney e Pat O'Brien. Neste programa, Walt Disney prova o seu valor como ator. Aprende sobre as tradições irlandesas, onde conhece o Rei Brian dos Duendes e Darby O'Gill. Gosta tanto das histórias deles, que os convida para a Califórnia para protagonizarem um filme dele.
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O jovem Travis Coates (Tommy Kirk) fica encarregado de cuidar do rancho da família, junto com sua mãe e seu irmão mais novo, quando o pai dele viaja para levar uma boiada, na década de 1860. O pequeno Arliss Coates (Kevin Cocoran) acha um cão amarelo perdido na fazenda e resolve dar abrigo, mesmo com a resistência do irmão mais velho Travis. Logo, o cão passa a ser muito amado por todos, mas o seu tempo junto à família pode não durar muito.
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"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on November 20, 1957. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and Larry Lansburgh. This episode provides a preview of Old Yeller, and also features Arizona Sheepdog.
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Johhny Tremain é acusado injustamente de um delito que o impede de encontrar emprego. Sendo assim, ele acaba se alistando na guerra e se torna um patriota lutando para libertar as colônias da Inglaterra. Ele acaba descobrindo a si mesmo nesse processo.
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Walt Disney presents a combination live-action and animated drama of America's historical fight for freedom. Includes a segment from Johnny Tremain, depicting the Boston Tea Party and the battle at Concord, and is followed by Ben and Me.
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One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real thing.
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Drama showing the reactions of citizens of a small town to the construction of a nuclear energy plant in their community, and their acceptance of the peaceful aspects of atomic energy.
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When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
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An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
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A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
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Bem sucedido, o recém casado Brad Collins já pertenceu ao Partido Comunista dos EUA, que está o chantageando agora.
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A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
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Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the Alliance.
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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.
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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.
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In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Um esquadrão da RAF é derrubado sobre a França ocupada. Os panfletos chegam a Paris apesar do fato de que o mais novo, Baby, está ferido. Ele deve estar escondido e suas feridas cuidadas. A Gestapo já emitiu ordens para sua prisão.
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Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
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A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
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When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
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When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
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Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
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An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
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Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
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A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
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A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
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In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
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Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
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The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
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A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.
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The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
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English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice which is not that of empress, but of hairdresser.' (British Film Catalogue)
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In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
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In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
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Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
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A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
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A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.
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Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film The Private Secretary, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller who starred in the original, was again cast as the country girl seeking fame and fortune in the big city. She takes a secretarial job at a bank, and sets about catching the heart of her boss, Herr Hasel (Jack Hulbert).
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A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
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A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
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Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
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A Soho restaurateur's protégé becomes a star.
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A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
