Irving Rapper
Nascimento : 1898-01-16, London, England, UK
Morte : 1999-02-20
História
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Irving Rapper (16 January 1898, or 1902 – 20 December 1999) was an England-born American film director.
Born to a Jewish family in London, England, Rapper emigrated to the United States and became an actor and stage director on Broadway while studying at New York University. In 1936, he went to Hollywood, where he was hired by Warner Bros. as an assistant director and dialogue coach. He proved invaluable in translating and mediating for non-native English-speaking directors. By the early 1940s, he had metamorphosed into one of the hottest directors on the Warner Bros. lot.
He made his directing debut with the 1941 film Shining Victory, in which his friend Bette Davis appeared as a show of support for him. He would go on to direct her in four more films, Now, Voyager (1942), The Corn Is Green (1945), Deception (1946), and Another Man's Poison (1952). In later years, Rapper admitted that he found Davis very difficult to work with and that she would, "...hold the whole set hostage, stopping production for a day, because of her mood."
Rapper's film One Foot in Heaven (1941) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film. Perhaps his best film in a studio other than Warner Bros. was The Brave One (1956) about a Mexican boy who must rescue his bull from a brutal fight against a top matador, which earned the then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an Academy Award for his original screenplay despite being a box office failure.
Additional credits include The Voice of the Turtle (1947), The Glass Menagerie (1950), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), and The Miracle, a 1959 remake of the 1912 hand-colored, black-and-white film The Miracle.
Biopics directed by Rapper include The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), Rhapsody in Blue (1945), Pontius Pilate (co-director, 1962) and his last film, Born Again (1978), about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson.
Rapper died at the age of 101 on 20 December 1999 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, where he had been a resident since 1995.
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Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
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Christine Jorgensen goes to 1950s Denmark and makes headlines for having the first sex-change operation.
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The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.
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A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.
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Em 303 d.C., Constantino proclama o Edito de Milão ao se tornar o imperador de Gaul. Comandando seus soldados, derrota as legiões romanas, assegurando liberdade de culto aos cristãos. Filmado em locações na Itália, este grande épico possui incríveis cenas de batalhas e grandes atuações do elenco. O ator norte-americano Cornel Wilde dá credibilidade internacional à trama no papel do Imperador Constantino. A obra possui todas as características tão apreciadas de um grande épico: longas batalhas, traições, cristãos sendo jogados aos leões e mulheres bonitas, entre elas, Belinda Lee, a belíssima atriz inglesa no papel de Fausta, esposa de Constantino.
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A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
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While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
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A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
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A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.
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A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
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An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
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Uma escritora de mistério se envolve numa emaranhada teia de engano e assassinato, não muito diferente das tramas de seus romances. A escritora de mistério Janet Frobisher vive sozinha numa isolada e obscura casa de campo, isso quando não está paquerando o noivo de sua secretária. Em um momento extremamente embaraçoso, ela recebe um visitante indesejável: George Bates, que afirma ser o parceiro no crime do marido de Janet. George se insinua na casa e na vida de Janet, apesar dos esforços dela para se livrar dele; os relacionamentos emaranhados se transformam em um macabro e assassino jogo de gato e rato.
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An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
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A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.
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An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
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After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
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Ascensão de George Gershwin, de uma editora musical em Manhattan aos píncaros da fama internacional. O excesso de trabalho cobra seu preço e Gershwin falece aos trinta e nove anos, de hemorragia cerebral, em 1937.
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When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
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A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
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Uma filha é controlada pela mãe, que lhe determina tudo que deve fazer. Um dia um famoso psiquiatra vai na sua casa e a vê prestes a ter um ataque de nervos. O psiquiatra lhe recomenda algumas semanas em uma casa de repouso, que ele administra. Quando ela sai da clínica faz uma viagem de navio até o Rio de Janeiro e, na viagem, sente-se altamente atraída por um homem casado, que tem sentimentos recíprocos. Ao voltar para casa ela é uma mulher muito diferente, que agora age e pensa por conta própria, não aceitando mais as imposições da mãe.
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The eldest (Barbara Stanwyck) of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer (George Brent) she once married.
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Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
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Adaptação do best-seller de Rachel Field. Bette Davis é a professora Henriette, que relembra sua história em flashbacks, trazendo à tona o tempo em que trabalhava como governanta do Duque de Praslin. Dominada por um ciúme doentio, a duquesa acusou Henriette de manter um caso com o duque. A governanta achou melhor deixar o emprego ao invés de criar confusão, mesmo com a promessa não cumprida da duquesa em escrever uma carta de referências. Logo depois, porém, a duquesa foi encontrada morta.
Script Supervisor
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Dialogue Coach
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Assistant Director
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
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A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
