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George Hopkins is a Actor, Scriptwriter, Production Design and Costume Design American born on 23 march 1896 at Pasadena (USA)

George Hopkins

George Hopkins
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Nationality USA
Birth 23 march 1896 at Pasadena (USA)
Death 11 february 1985 (at 88 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

George James Hopkins (March 23, 1896 – February 11, 1985), was a set designer, playwright and production designer.

A native of Pasadena, California, Hopkins got his start designing scenery on stage after studying design in college. He moved to films in 1917, working as an art director for various studios. During his long career, Hopkins had been nominated for the Oscars thirteen times.

Best films

My Fair Lady (1964)
(Set Decoration)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
(Set Decoration)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
(Set Decoration)
The Great Race (1965)
(Set Decoration)
Casablanca (1943)
(Set Decoration)
This Is the Army (1943)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Max Steiner
Max Steiner
(16 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(11 films)
John W. Boyle
John W. Boyle
(5 films)
Henry Blanke
Henry Blanke
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of George Hopkins (66 films)

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Scriptwriter

A Woman There Was, 50minutes
Directed by J. Gordon Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe, William B. Davidson, Robert Elliott
Roles Story

As described in a film magazine, Zara (Bara), daughter of tribal chief Majah (Ardizoni), is beloved by Pulke (Elliott), a pearl diver. When New England missionary Winthrop Stark (Davidson) arrives, Zara has no time for Pulke but offers her love to Stark, who refuses her as he expects to wed a girl back home. Pulke, jealous of the missionary, attempts to kill him with a spear but Zara shield him at risk to her life. When a typhoon hits the natives, to appease the gods, decide to offer Stark as a sacrifice, but again Zara saves him by offering herself in his place. She plunges into the ocean but is saved by the missionary before she drowns. As a result of his exertions, Stark lingers near death. Zara steals the sacred black pearl from the tomb of her father, who died during the storm, and with it Stark recovers. The natives stab Zara for taking the pearl, and once more she saves Stark, though dying herself, by returning the black pearl as payment for his safety.
The She Devil
Directed by J. Gordon Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe
Rating62% 3.138253.138253.138253.138253.13825

Art

The Day of the Locust, 2h24
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about films
Actors William Atherton, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Lelia Goldoni
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.4459753.4459753.4459753.4459753.445975
A cynical and gothic look at Hollywood during the late 1930s, The Day of the Locust tells the tales of residents of the dilapidated San Bernardino Arms: Faye Greener, a trashy aspiring actress with limited talent, and her father Harry, a washed-up vaudevillian reduced to working as a door-to-door salesman; sexually repressed accountant Homer Simpson, who desperately loves Faye, and East Coast WASP Tod Hackett, an aspiring artist employed by the production department of a major studio, who also fancies Faye.
40 Carats
40 Carats (1973)
, 1h50
Directed by Mike Frankovich, Milton George Katselas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Binnie Barnes, Deborah Raffin, Nancy Walker
Roles Set Decoration
Rating63% 3.1971753.1971753.1971753.1971753.197175
Ann Stanley, who sells real estate in New York City, is on vacation [by herself] with her mother in Greece when her car breaks down. To her rescue comes a young man on a motor [scooter] bike, Peter Latham, who has a difficult time persuading Ann to accept a ride.
The Love Machine, 1h48
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Genres Drama
Actors John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Maureen Arthur
Roles Set Decoration
Rating47% 2.370232.370232.370232.370232.37023
Robin Stone works at a powerful TV network doing the news. He encounters an array of women, among them Judith Austin, the wife of a network executive. Judith asks her husband Greg to promote Robin and he does so. Robin and Judith then get into an extramarital affair while her husband is in the hospital for cardiac care.
The Love Machine
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Genres Drama
Actors John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Edith Atwater
Roles Set Decoration
Rating47% 2.370232.370232.370232.370232.37023
Robin Stone a d'autres ambitions que de présenter le JT. Beau gosse auquel nulle femme ne résiste, c'est sur Judith Austin qu'il jette son dévolu. Pour sa beauté bien sûr, mais surtout parce qu'elle est la femme du président d'une chaîne de télévision. Il espère bien qu'elle va l'aider à faire s'envoler sa carrière.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, 2h9
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Bob Newhart, Jack Nicholson
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.2002953.2002953.2002953.2002953.200295
At the behest of her ultra-conservative fiancé Warren, scatterbrained five-pack-a-day chain smoker and clairvoyant Daisy Gamble attends a class taught by psychiatrist Marc Chabot for help in kicking her habit. While undergoing hypnosis, it is discovered she is the reincarnation of Lady Melinda Winifred Waine Tentrees, a seductive 18th century coquette who was born the illegitimate daughter of a kitchen maid. She acquired the paternity records of the children housed in the orphanage where her mother worked and used the information to blackmail their wealthy fathers. She eventually married nobleman Robert Tentrees during the period of the English Regency, then was tried for espionage and treason after he abandoned her.
Hello, Dolly!, 2h22
Directed by Gene Kelly, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Edra Jean Peaker, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, J. Pat O'Malley
Roles Set Decoration
Rating69% 3.498523.498523.498523.498523.49852
In 1890, all of New York City is excited because widowed, brassy Dolly Levi is in town ("Call On Dolly"). Dolly makes a living through matchmaking and numerous sidelines ("Just Leave Everything to Me"). She is currently seeking a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder, the well-known "half-a-millionaire", but it becomes clear that Dolly intends to marry Horace herself. Dolly travels to Yonkers, New York to visit Horace. Ambrose Kemper, a young artist, wants to marry Horace's weepy niece, Ermengarde, but Horace opposes this because Ambrose's vocation does not guarantee a steady living. Horace, who is the owner of Vandergelder's Hay and Feed, explains to his two clerks, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, that he is going to get married because "It Takes a Woman" to cheerfully do all the household chores. He plans to travel to New York City to propose to Irene Molloy, who owns a hat shop there. Dolly arrives in Yonkers and sends Horace ahead to the city. Before leaving he tells Cornelius and Barnaby to mind the store.
Assignment to Kill, 1h42
Directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman, Peter van Eyck
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.000983.000983.000983.000983.00098
A private detective is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping tycoon who is suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships in order to claim the insurance money.
Wait Until Dark, 1h48
Directed by Terence Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, La cécité
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist II, Jack Weston, Robby Benson
Roles Set Decoration
Rating76% 3.8473953.8473953.8473953.8473953.847395
In a Montreal apartment, a woman named Lisa (Samantha Jones) waits for an old man to sew bags of heroin into the cloth body of an old-fashioned doll. As she leaves the apartment with the doll, we see the man watching her leave, then dialing someone on the phone. Lisa takes the doll with her on an airline flight to New York City, but when, on disembarking, she sees a man watching her, she becomes worried and gives the doll for safekeeping to a man she'd spoken with on the plane, professional photographer Sam Hendrix (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). The man who'd been watching Lisa then roughly escorts her away. Later, when Lisa calls Sam about the doll, Sam and his wife, Susy (Audrey Hepburn), who is blind from an auto accident, are unable to find it.
Hotel
Hotel (1967)
, 2h4
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Rennie, Melvyn Douglas
Roles Set Decoration
Rating65% 3.296613.296613.296613.296613.29661
The story takes place at the fictional St Gregory Hotel in New Orleans, owned by Warren Trent (Melvyn Douglas).