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Irving Rapper is a Director, Dialogue, Producer, Assistant Director and Dialogue Coach American born on 16 january 1898 at London (United-kingdom)
Irving Rapper (16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999) was an England-born American film director. His most successful body of work is 10 films he made while under contract with Warner Brothers.
Born 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), which earned the then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an Academy Award for his original screenplay.
Additional credits include 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), 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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Nationality USA
Birth 16 january 1898 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 20 february 1999 (at 101 years) at California (USA)
Birth 16 january 1898 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 20 february 1999 (at 101 years) at California (USA)
Born 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), which earned the then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an Academy Award for his original screenplay.
Additional credits include 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), 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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Born Again (1978)
, 1h50Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films
Actors Dean Jones, Anne Francis, Jay Robinson, Dana Andrews, Raymond St. Jacques, Corey Feldman
Rating51%
L'implication de Charles Colson, conseiller à la Maison-Blanche du président Richard Nixon, dans le scandale du Watergate, sa conversion ultérieure au christianisme et sa peine de prison découlant de Watergate.
, 1h38Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Joan Tompkins, Quinn K. Redeker, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Pamelyn Ferdin, Bill Erwin, Trent Lehman
Rating55%
Pontius Pilate (1962)
, 1h40Directed by Irving Rapper, Gian Paolo Callegari
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain, Basil Rathbone, Letícia Román, Massimo Serato, Riccardo Garrone
Rating55%
Ponce Pilate, le procurateur de Judée, revient à Rome pour se défendre devant ses accusateurs, Caligula, le nouvel empereur, et le Sénat tout entier. Pendant son procès, Ponce Pilate revoit les dernières années de sa vie, depuis son arrivée en terre palestinienne, jusqu'à l'exécution d'un prophète poursuivi par la haine des Pharisiens, Jésus de Nazareth.
Joseph and His Brethren (1961)
, 1h43Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Peplum
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Geoffrey Horne, Robert Morley, Robert Rietti, Belinda Lee, Terence Hill, Finlay Currie
Rating54%
Joseph, son of Israel (Jacob) and Rachel, lived in the land of Canaan with eleven brothers and one sister. He was Rachel's firstborn and Israel's eleventh son. Of all the sons, Joseph was loved by his father the most. Israel even arrayed Joseph with a "long coat of many colors". Israel's favoritism toward Joseph caused his half brothers to hate him, and when Joseph was seventeen years old he had two dreams that made his brothers plot his demise. In the first dream, Joseph and his brothers gathered bundles of grain. Then, all of the grain bundles that had been prepared by the brothers gathered around Joseph's bundle and bowed down to it. In the second dream, the sun (father), the moon (mother) and eleven stars (brothers) bowed down to Joseph himself. When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they despised him for the implications that the family would be bowing down to Joseph. They became jealous that their father would even ponder over Joseph's words concerning these dreams.
Constantine and the Cross (1961)
, 2hDirected by Irving Rapper, Lionello De Felice
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato, Christine Kaufmann, Fausto Tozzi, Renato Terra
Rating57%
Constantin, qui guerroie aux côtés de son père contre les Barbares, est appelé à Rome. Avant d'arriver à la ville, il tombe dans un guet-apens organisé par Maxence
The Miracle (1959)
, 2h1Directed by Irving Rapper
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on plays, Films about virginity
Actors Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak, Vittorio Gassman, Katína Paxinoú, Gustavo Rojo
Rating59%
Teresa (Carroll Baker), a postulant at the convent of Miraflores in Salamanca, Spain, is an orphan taken in by the sisters there. She enjoys the convent life, despite being a handful for her superiors. She sings worldly love songs to the other postulants and reads secular stories and plays such as Romeo and Juliet. Still, she has a lively devotion to Christ and to His Blessed Mother. A statue of the Madonna, in fact, is held in high regard by Teresa as she goes about her duties.
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
, 2h8Directed by Irving Rapper, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Transport films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Road movies
Actors Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Carolyn Jones, Martin Milner
Rating61%
Marjorie Morgenstern is a student at Hunter College and the girlfriend of an eligible young man, Sandy Lamm, who attends her family's synagogue. Her parents are happy with her choice of mate, and her mother Rose Morgenstern (Claire Trevor) tells her father, Arnold (Everett Sloane), that she hopes the two kids marry.
The Brave One (1956)
, 1h40Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films
Actors Elsa Cárdenas, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr., Joi Lansing, Rafael Storm, Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Rating65%
Un garçon mexicain sauve un taureau de la mort dans l'arène en demandant sa grâce au président.
Strange Intruder (1956)
, 1h22Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edmund Purdom, Ida Lupino, Eric Chase Anderson, Mimi Gibson, Carl Benton Reid, Ann Harding
Rating56%
Dying in a Korea prisoner-of-war camp, Adrian Carmichael learns his wife Alice has been unfaithful back home. He makes friend Paul Quentin promise not to let the Carmichaels' children be raised by another man, no matter what.
Forever Female (1954)
, 1h33Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, Pat Crowley, James Gleason, Maidie Norman
Rating65%
The reviews are in and a new play starring Beatrice Page and produced by Harry Phillips is a flop. Long divorced but still a team, they need a new project and meet playwright Stanley Krown, who has written one in which the lead roles are a mother and a 19-year-old daughter.
Bad for Each Other (1953)
, 1h23Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianne Foster, Mildred Dunnock, Arthur Franz, Ray Collins
Rating58%
Army colonel and doctor Tom Owen returns home to Coalville, Pennsylvania, on leave. He learns from wealthy mine owner Dan Reasonover that his brother Floyd, a mine safety engineer killed in an explosion, had betrayed Dan's trust by purchasing substandard equipment and taking kickbacks. Floyd was also heavily in debt. Tom wants to pay Dan back, but Dan tells him to forget about the money.
Another Man's Poison (1951)
, 1h30Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel, Barbara Murray, Reginald Beckwith
Rating67%
Successful mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, who has been separated for years from her husband, a man with a criminal past, lives in an isolated home in England. Her nearest neighbour is nosy veterinarian Dr. Henderson. Janet falls in love and occasionally dabbles with her secretary Chris' fiancé, Larry, who is years younger than she. When her estranged husband unexpectedly appears, Janet poisons him by administering horse medication given to her by her neighbour. One of the deceased man's criminal cohorts arrives as she's preparing to dispose of the body in the local lake. When Frobisher's secretary and Larry arrive at the secluded house, the mysterious man, who has assisted her with her scheme, impersonates the long-absent spouse of Janet, who plots to get rid of her unplanned accomplice, as well.
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
, 1h47Directed by Irving Rapper, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, John Arthur Kennedy, Ralph Sanford, Ann Tyrrell
Rating70%
While on duty, Merchant Mariner Tom Wingfield recalls his life in a dilapidated St. Louis apartment with his delusional mother Amanda and crippled younger sister Laura, and their story unfolds via flashback.
Anna Lucasta (1949)
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Paulette Goddard, Dennie Moore, Oskar Homolka, John Ireland, Broderick Crawford, Will Geer
Rating61%
When the Lucasta family in Pennsylvania receives a message that a friend's son Rudolf is coming to town to find a wife, they see a chance to make some money. The friend of the family, Strobel, will send $4,000 to accompany Rudolf. The family decides on trying to "sell" one of their own daughters, Anna, to Rudolf. The only one opposed to the idea is the father, Joe, because he hates Anna more than the others. His daughter Stella's husband Frank has to persuade Joe with a beating before he agrees.
The Voice of the Turtle (1948)
, 1h43Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris, Kent Smith, John Emery
Rating67%
A young actress, Sally Middleton, agrees to a date with a soldier, Bill Page, on a weekend pass after he's stood up by Olive Lashbrooke, her friend. When the soldier has trouble getting a hotel room, he ends up spending the weekend at her apartment.