Alfred Herman
Рождение : 1889-09-08, New York City, New York, USA
История
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Alfred Herman (September 8, 1889 – December 1973) was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Love Affair.
He was born in New York City, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
Art Direction
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
Art Direction
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.
Art Direction
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
Art Direction
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
Art Direction
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Art Direction
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.
Art Direction
Трое уголовников бегут из тюрьмы: один из них 23-летний Артур — отсидевший в тюрьме семь лет за убийство. Бандиты укрываются на заправке у одной из своих бывших знакомых, а Артур Боуерс или просто «Бой» — в первый раз в жизни знакомится с девушкой…
Art Direction
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Art Direction
Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Art Direction
Капитан Финли находит доказательства причастности к смерти Джозефа Самуэльса группы демобилизованных солдат. В ретроспективных кадрах мы видим события ночи убийства с различных точек зрения. Сержант Кили занимается собственным расследованиям, пытаясь очистить от подозрений своего друга Митчелла, на которого указывают косвенные улики. Тогда же выясняется реальная причина убийства...
Art Direction
По роману Томаса Белла "Все невесты прекрасны"
Девушка и парень любят друг друга, и в этом состоит их жизнь. Они живут и работают, они печалятся и радуются, они страдают и надеются – они дышат и они свободны. О чем еще может мечтать человек?
Art Direction
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
Art Direction
In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. En route, he has been assigned to watch over a band of teenagers who were trapped in Europe four years ago while entertaining the troops. Their entrapment has done nothing to dim their enthusiasm for performing and while waiting for passage the crews entertain everyone at every opportunity. Songs include: "I'll Buy That Dream" (sung by Anne Jeffreys), "Heaven Is a Place Called Home," "Seven O'Clock in the Morning (Waking up Boogie)," "Somebody Stole My Poor Little Heart" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel), and "The Lord's Prayer" (arranged by Albert Hay Malotte).
Art Direction
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Art Direction
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
Art Direction
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
Art Direction
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
Art Direction
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
Art Direction
In the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles, and Mike Strager, are still spending most of their time on KP duty. However they are captured by the Japanese and taken to a prison camp and discover that their long-suffering Sergeant Burke has also been captured. They manage to escape and find their way to a Burmese village in which two American showgirls, Janie and Connie who have escaped from Shanghai, are stranded. They all borrow an elephant and head for India.
Art Direction
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Art Direction
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
Art Direction
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Art Direction
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Art Direction
Майор Чик Дэвис демонстрирует армии США достоинства высотного прицельного бомбометания, с помощью нового высокотехнологичного прицела, а так же организовывает школу бомбардиров. Тренировки показаны в полудокументальном стиле, скрашенном драматическими моментами из личной жизни и учебных будней курсантов.
Art Direction
Вена, 1939 год. Кэти О`Хара — стриптизерша из Нью-Йорка, выдающая себя за представительницу светского общества из Филадельфии, собирается замуж за австрийского барона Фон Любера. Радио-репортер Пэт О`Тул хочет использовать этот шанс для того, чтобы узнать как можно больше о бароне, который подозревается в связях с нацистами. Маршрут свадебного путешествия странным образом проходит по странам, в которые впоследствии вторгается Гитлер. Следуя за парой молодоженов в их медовом месяце по всей Европе, О`Тул пытается открыть глаза Кэти на деятельность ее мужа, постепенно влюбляясь в героиню.
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Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
Art Direction
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Assistant Art Director
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
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Джейбз Стоун, простой фермер в Новой Англии, страдает от неурожая и долгов и не видит смысла продолжать заниматься фермерством. В отчаянии, он говорит, что готов продать душу в обмен на деньги и достойный урожай. Тут как тут появляется некий мистер Скрэтч, и предлагает контракт на семь лет: деньги, процветание и удача в обмен на душу. Вскоре к Стоуну приходит успех и он становится самым богатым фермером Новой Англии. Однако он становится тираном и теряет любовь семьи и уважение друзей. Через семь лет Стоун осознает свою ошибку, но контракт есть контракт. И спасти его может только блистательный оратор, возможно будущий президент Соединенных Штатов - Дэниэл Уэбстер...
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Океанский роскошный лайнер пересекает Атлантику, держа курс на Нью-Йорк. На его борту знакомятся Терри МакКей — певица из ночного клуба и известный во всем мире французский художник Мишель Марне, который плывет, чтобы жениться на американке, наследнице промышленного магната Лоне Кларк. Терри, также как и Мишель, уже помолвлена и должна обручиться со своим продюсером Кеннетом Брэдли, но, тем не менее, они влюбляются друг в друга с первого взгляда.
Assistant Art Director
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Art Direction
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Assistant Art Director
A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
Assistant Art Director
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Assistant Art Director
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
Assistant Art Director
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Art Direction
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
Assistant Art Director
Умирающий отец Лео Винсея просит сына отправиться на поиски нового химического элемента, который, считается, способен даровать бессмертие. Пятьсот лет назад предок Лео по имени Джон нашёл его в заброшенном городе на Крайнем Севере. Лео снаряжает экспедицию. После многочисленных приключений путешественники находят затерянный город, расположенный подо льдом. Там они встречают жестокую и властную королеву Аишу. Она утверждает, что Лео — реинкарнация Джона, в которого когда-то была сильно влюблена. Все эти годы она ждала, что он вернётся к ней, и теперь не намерена отпускать Лео из своего города…
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A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
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Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
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A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Art Direction
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
Art Direction
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Art Direction
To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.
Art Direction
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
Art Direction
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
Art Direction
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
Art Direction
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Art Direction
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
Art Direction
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy.
Art Direction
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
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Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
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Интересно смотреть на эту ленту с высоты прошедших лет, и с удивлением отмечать высокое мастерство спецэффектов, грамотную режиссуру и добротный сценарий. Начинаются приключения с того, что на отдаленном, диком острове научная экспедиция захватывает громадную человекообразную обезьяну и, не мудрствуя лукаво, привозит ее в Нью-Йорк для показа праздной публике. Кто бы мог подумать, что этот жуткий монстр, способен на такое тонкое чувство, как любовь - эта чертова обезьяна, жить не может без миниатюрной и нежной главной героини...
Art Direction
Интересно смотреть на эту ленту с высоты прошедших лет, и с удивлением отмечать высокое мастерство спецэффектов, грамотную режиссуру и добротный сценарий. Начинаются приключения с того, что на отдаленном, диком острове научная экспедиция захватывает громадную человекообразную обезьяну и, не мудрствуя лукаво, привозит ее в Нью-Йорк для показа праздной публике. Кто бы мог подумать, что этот жуткий монстр, способен на такое тонкое чувство, как любовь - эта чертова обезьяна, жить не может без миниатюрной и нежной главной героини...
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Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.