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George Amy is a Director, Associate Producer and Editor American born on 15 october 1903 at New York City (USA)
George Joseph Amy, né le 15 octobre 1903 à New York — Circonscription de Brooklyn (État de New York), mort le 18 décembre 1986 à Los Angeles (Californie), est un monteur, producteur (de cinéma et de télévision) et réalisateur américain.
Il est généralement crédité George Amy, parfois George J. Amy.
Travaillement essentiellement au sein de la Warner Bros., il devient ainsi l'un des monteurs attitrés de Michael Curtiz, sur bon nombre de ses films, dont Capitaine Blood (1935), La Charge de la brigade légère (1936) et La Piste de Santa Fe (1940), tous trois avec Errol Flynn et Olivia de Havilland.
Toujours comme monteur, il assiste également les réalisateurs Lloyd Bacon (ex. : Voici la marine, 1934), Howard Hawks (Air Force, 1943), Fritz Lang (Le démon s'éveille la nuit, 1952), ou encore Raoul Walsh (ex. : Aventures en Birmanie, 1945), entre autres.
Par ailleurs, il est producteur associé sur trois films de Michael Curtiz, sortis en 1947 et 1949. Enfin, il est le réalisateur de sept films (y compris trois courts métrages), notamment She Had to Say Yes (1933), coréalisé par Busby Berkeley, et dont il assure en outre le montage.
À la télévision, George Amy est monteur (ou superviseur au montage) sur dix-huit épisodes, diffusés de 1953 à 1956, de la série Schlitz Playhouse of Stars. De plus, il est producteur associé de vingt-deux épisodes (diffusés en 1969-1970) d'une autre série, Ranch L.
Dans les années 1940, il obtient trois nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage, dont un gagné en 1944, pour Air Force déjà cité.
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Birth name George Joseph Amy
Nationality USA
Birth 15 october 1903 at New York City (USA)
Death 18 december 1986 (at 83 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 15 october 1903 at New York City (USA)
Death 18 december 1986 (at 83 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
George Joseph Amy, né le 15 octobre 1903 à New York — Circonscription de Brooklyn (État de New York), mort le 18 décembre 1986 à Los Angeles (Californie), est un monteur, producteur (de cinéma et de télévision) et réalisateur américain.
Il est généralement crédité George Amy, parfois George J. Amy.
Biography
Au cinéma, George Amy débute comme monteur, sur un film muet sorti en 1921 (il a alors 17 ans à peine). Il exerce cette activité (principale) sur soixante-six films américains (dont des westerns) au total, le dernier sorti en 1954.Travaillement essentiellement au sein de la Warner Bros., il devient ainsi l'un des monteurs attitrés de Michael Curtiz, sur bon nombre de ses films, dont Capitaine Blood (1935), La Charge de la brigade légère (1936) et La Piste de Santa Fe (1940), tous trois avec Errol Flynn et Olivia de Havilland.
Toujours comme monteur, il assiste également les réalisateurs Lloyd Bacon (ex. : Voici la marine, 1934), Howard Hawks (Air Force, 1943), Fritz Lang (Le démon s'éveille la nuit, 1952), ou encore Raoul Walsh (ex. : Aventures en Birmanie, 1945), entre autres.
Par ailleurs, il est producteur associé sur trois films de Michael Curtiz, sortis en 1947 et 1949. Enfin, il est le réalisateur de sept films (y compris trois courts métrages), notamment She Had to Say Yes (1933), coréalisé par Busby Berkeley, et dont il assure en outre le montage.
À la télévision, George Amy est monteur (ou superviseur au montage) sur dix-huit épisodes, diffusés de 1953 à 1956, de la série Schlitz Playhouse of Stars. De plus, il est producteur associé de vingt-deux épisodes (diffusés en 1969-1970) d'une autre série, Ranch L.
Dans les années 1940, il obtient trois nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage, dont un gagné en 1944, pour Air Force déjà cité.
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Granny Get Your Gun (1940)
, 56minutesDirected by George Amy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Western
Actors May Robson, Harry Davenport, Margot Stevenson, Hardie Albright, Clem Bevans, Clay Clement
Rating60%
Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
, 55minutesDirected by George Amy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland, John Litel, Roger Pryor, John Gallaudet
Rating59%
Kid Nightingale (1939)
, 57minutesDirected by George Amy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett, Edward Brophy, John Ridgely, William Haade
Rating58%
She Had to Say Yes (1933)
, 1h5Directed by George Amy, Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Loretta Young, Winnie Lightner, Lyle Talbot, Regis Toomey, Hugh Herbert, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Rating59%
Sol Glass (Ferdinand Gottschalk) owns a clothing manufacturing company struggling to survive in the midst of the Great Depression. Like his competitors, Glass employs "customer girls" to entertain out-of-town buyers. However, his clients have become tired of his hard-bitten "gold diggers" and have started taking their business elsewhere. Tommy Nelson (Regis Toomey), one of his salesmen, suggests that they use their stenographers instead. Glass decides to give it a try.
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My Dream Is Yours (1949)
, 1h41Directed by Michael Curtiz, Friz Freleng
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Associate Producer
Rating65%
The film opens in Los Angeles, where Doug Blake (Carson) is dumped as a manager by Gary Mitchell (Bowman). He goes to New York City to find a new singer to replace Gary on the Hour of Enchantment radio show. While in New York, he discovers Martha Gibson (Day) turning records in a jukebox factory. He takes her to Los Angeles and tries to introduce her to Felix Hofer (Sakall). His efforts lead to a series of communication failures.
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
, 1h39Directed by Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Associate Producer
Rating69%
Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) and her husband Michael (Don DeFore) suspect each other of cheating. For their wedding anniversary, Elvira books an ocean cruise to Rio de Janeiro but her husband claims that unexpected business will prevent him from going. Seeing an opportunity, Elvira pretends to take the trip alone, but in fact sends singer Georgia Garrett (Doris Day), a woman she'd met at the travel agency, in her place and under her name. By secretly staying behind, Elvira hopes to find out if Michael is indeed sneaking around behind her back. Michael, however, is suspicious over Elvira's supposed willingness to go on the trip alone, and so hires private detective Peter Virgil (Jack Carson) to see if she is sneaking around behind his back.
Editor
She Couldn't Say No (1954)
, 1h29Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford, Raymond Walburn
Roles Editor
Rating58%
Wealthy Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) visits the small American hamlet of Progress, Arkansas, whose residents had paid for a critical medical operation for her when she was a child. She decides to express her gratitude by giving them money anonymously. The headstrong woman clashes with the local doctor, Robert Sellers (Robert Mitchum), who foresees the resulting chaos.
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
, 1h28Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire, Jeanne Cagney
Roles Editor
Rating60%
Charismatic roving peddler Hank Martin (James Cagney) falls in love at first sight with schoolteacher Verity Wade (Barbara Hale) and soon marries her. On their wedding day, he rents a ramshackle home from his upper class lawyer friend Jules Bolduc (Warner Anderson). Hank rounds up some of his many friends to fix up the place, but Verity begins to realize that he is not as nice as he appears to be; while they do the work, he sees nothing wrong in going inside to read a law book. He confides to her that it is all a matter of manipulating people the right way.
Affair with a Stranger (1953)
, 1h27Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Monica Lewis, Olive Carey
Roles Editor
Rating57%
On a train, playwright Bill Blakeley fends off the romantic flirtations of Janet Boothe, an actress from his play. But when wife Carolyn decides not to join him, Bill makes a dinner date with Janet, who plants a story with a gossip columnist about the Blakeleys possibly heading for a divorce.
Clash by Night (1952)
, 1h45Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, Keith Andes, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Editor
Rating69%
Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to her home town, the fishing village of Monterey, California after ten years "back East." Her fisherman brother Joe (Keith Andes) is not particularly pleased to see her, but accepts her back into the family home. His girlfriend Peggy (Marilyn Monroe) is more welcoming. When Joe asks Mae about the rich man she was seeing, she explains he was a married politician. He died and left her some money, but his wife and relatives took her to court and won.
The Lady Says No (1952)
, 1h20Directed by Frank Ross
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Caulfield, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, Lenore Lonergan, Frances Bavier, Peggy Maley
Roles Editor
Rating52%
David Niven plays a globe-trotting author and photographer on assignment from LIFE magazine to do a photo story on best-selling author of the title book, "The Lady Says 'No'," Joan Caulfield. Rather than finding a dour spinster, as he expects, she is a young, attractive blonde, who finds her published theories against love and men set on their head.
The Blue Veil (1951)
, 1h53Directed by Busby Berkeley, Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor
Roles Editor
Rating71%
Following the death of her newborn baby, war widow LouLou Mason accepts a temporary two-week assignment as nursemaid to the infant son of corset manufacturer Frederick K. Begley, who lost his wife in childbirth. She ingratiates herself with the family and eventually becomes a permanent fixture. When she declines Frederick's proposal, he marries his secretary Alicia Torgersen, who fires LouLou following her honeymoon.
Queen for a Day (1951)
, 1h47Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jack Bailey, Phyllis Avery, Darren McGavin, Joan Winfield, Lonnie Burr, Tristram "Tris" Coffin
Roles Editor
Rating65%
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The Capture (1950)
, 1h31Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White, Jimmy Hunt, Barry Kelley
Rating59%
Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres), is manager of an oil company. The payroll has been stolen in a hold-up. His fiance urges him to pursue the suspect in hope that he will gain recognition. Deducing the road the robber may have taken over the border with Mexico, he goes along to intercept him. He shoots a man who shouts back at him and does not raise his hands when challenged by Lin.
The Sound of Fury (1950)
, 1h25Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Gale Storm, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Locke
Roles Editor
Rating71%
Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler into participating in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police.