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Merrill Pye is a Director, Art Direction and Scenic Artist born on 14 august 1902

Merrill Pye

Merrill Pye
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Birth 14 august 1902
Death 17 november 1975 (at 73 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Merrill Pye (14 August 1902 – 17 November 1975) was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film North by Northwest.

Best films

North by Northwest (1959)
(Art Direction)
Bathing Beauty (1944)
(Art Direction)

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(16 films)
Adrian
Adrian
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Merrill Pye (31 films)

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Director

Ziegfeld Follies, 1h50
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Norman Taurog, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Merrill Pye, George Sidney, Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson
Rating63% 3.198153.198153.198153.198153.19815
Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell), au paradis, veut faire revivre ses grands spectacles de music-hall. S'ensuit, sortie de son esprit, une série de sketches musicaux ou humoristiques mettant en scène diverses vedettes.

Art

The Young Runaways, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Brooke Bundy, Lloyd Bochner, Patty McCormack, Lynn Bari, Norman Fell, Quentin Dean
Roles Art Direction
Rating53% 2.6687452.6687452.6687452.6687452.668745
The film begins with Shelley Morrison (Brooke Bundy) packing to run away from home because she feels she is not loved by her widowed father (Lloyd Bochner). She tells their maid (future The Jeffersons star Isabel Sanford) that to her father she is not his daughter,but a product. She has overheard him telling columnist Army Archerd that he is testing some of his psychological theories about teenagers on his own daughter.
The Power
The Power (1968)
, 1h48
Directed by Byron Haskin
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Aldo Ray, Richard Carlson, Yvonne De Carlo, Earl Holliman
Roles Art Direction
Rating59% 2.953632.953632.953632.953632.95363
Professor Jim Tanner, a biochemist, discovers evidence of a person with psychic abilities among his co-workers in a research laboratory. His colleagues include geneticist Margery Lansing, physicist Carl Melkinen, biologist Talbot Scott and chairman Norman Van Zandt, all working for Navy liaison Arthur Nordlund.
Double Trouble, 1h30
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, John Williams, Michael Murphy, Yvonne Romain, Chips Rafferty, Norman Rossington
Roles Art Direction
Rating51% 2.552622.552622.552622.552622.55262
Lorsque le chanteur Guy Lambert va en tournée en Europe, il est poursuivi par deux belles femmes, maladroit voleurs de bijoux, et un mystérieux tueur.
Riot on Sunset Strip, 1h27
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mimsy Farmer, John Hart, Aldo Ray, Pat Renella, Tim Rooney
Roles Art Direction
Rating49% 2.464942.464942.464942.464942.46494
Hot Rods to Hell
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Mimsy Farmer, Jeffrey Byron, Charles P. Thompson, Liz Renay
Roles Art Direction
Rating53% 2.654362.654362.654362.654362.65436
Traveling salesman Tom Phillips (Dana Andrews) is driving home to Boston, Massachusetts for Christmas when he encounters a drunken driver on a rain-streaked road. He cannot avoid a collision, and is hospitalized with spinal damage. Since he cannot be a traveling salesman anymore, his brother arranges for Tom to buy a remote motel in the desert town of Mayville, California. Tom is reluctant, since he has never been an innkeeper before—but in the end he decides that he must travel in order to get as far away from the site of his accident as possible, as soon as possible.
The Horizontal Lieutenant, 1h30
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Jim Backus, Charles McGraw, Miyoshi Umeki
Roles Art Direction
Rating59% 2.9509852.9509852.9509852.9509852.950985
Merle Wye, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army stationed in Hawaii, is attracted to nurse Molly Blue, but she barely gives him the time of day.
The Horizontal Lieutenant, 1h30
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jim Backus, Charles McGraw, Jack Carter, Miyoshi Umeki
Roles Art Direction
Rating59% 2.9509852.9509852.9509852.9509852.950985
À Hawaï, Merle Wye, un lieutenant du service de renseignement de l'armée, tombe amoureux d'une infirmière, Molly Blue, une ancienne camarade d'école. À cause de ses faibles aptitudes au baseball, il est transféré dans l'île de Rotohan, avec la mission de capturer un certain Kobayashi, un Japonais qui vole des denrées "vitales" à l'armée, comme du poisson ou du soda. Après plusieurs tentatives infructueuses, il est sur le point d'être transféré vers un poste encore plus éloigné lorsqu'il découvre par hasard avec Molly, nouvellement affectée à l'hôpital de la base, la cachette du voleur.
North by Northwest, 2h16
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Sol Gorss, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Art Direction
Rating82% 4.1482654.1482654.1482654.1482654.148265
Advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan and kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein), who take him to the Long Island estate of Lester Townsend. He is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is actually spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Vandamm's "associate" Leonard (Martin Landau) intends to get rid of Thornhill once they finish questioning him.
Gun Glory
Gun Glory (1957)
, 1h29
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Stewart Granger, Chill Wills, Rhonda Fleming, James Gregory, Jacques Aubuchon, Arch Johnson
Roles Art Direction
Rating61% 3.0966953.0966953.0966953.0966953.096695
Tom Early rides into a Wyoming town where he once lived with his wife and son. In the general store, owner Wainscott is annoyed when he believes clerk Jo is flirtatious with Early.
The Invisible Boy, 1h30
Directed by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Robot films
Actors Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Harold J. Stone, Robert H. Harris, Than Wyenn
Roles Art Direction
Rating53% 2.651482.651482.651482.651482.65148
The Invisible Boy is a mixture of lighthearted playfulness and menacing evil. As it begins, ten-year-old Timmie Merinoe (Eyer) seems only to want a playmate. After he is mysteriously invested with superior intelligence, he reassembles a robot that his father and other scientists had been ready to discard as unrepairable junk. No one pays much attention to the robot, named Robby, after Timmie gets it operating again, until Timmie's mother becomes angry when her son is taken aloft by a huge powered kite that Robby has built at Timmie's urging.
The Rack
The Rack (1956)
, 1h40
Directed by Arnold Laven
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Politique, Prison films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien, Anne Francis, Lee Marvin
Roles Art Direction
Rating67% 3.395383.395383.395383.395383.39538
Having survived two years in Korea in a prisoner-of-war camp, Captain Edward W. Hall, Jr., returns home to San Francisco and reports to an Air Force base there. His father, a retired lieutenant colonel, is glad to have his son back, but still grieving over the death of his other son, Pete, in the war.
The Fastest Gun Alive, 1h36
Directed by Russell Rouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Joslyn, Leif Erickson
Roles Art Direction
Rating70% 3.54553.54553.54553.54553.5455
Son of a notorious fast drawing Sheriff, George Kelby Jr. (Glenn Ford) and his wife Dora (Jeanne Crain) settle down in the peaceful town of Cross Creek under assumed identities to avoid having to continually face men out to become famous for shooting down the "fastest gun alive." Now known as George Temple, he becomes a mild-mannered teetotal shopkeeper, little respected by the other townsfolk.
Rose Marie
Rose Marie (1954)
, 1h44
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main, Joan Taylor
Roles Art Direction
Rating57% 2.898642.898642.898642.898642.89864
Rose Marie Lemaître (Ann Blyth) rencontre Mike Malone (Howard Keel), policier canadien qui tente de l'utiliser afin de capturer James Duvall (Fernando Lamas), trappeur recherché, et amant de la jeune femme.
Ziegfeld Follies, 1h50
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Norman Taurog, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Merrill Pye, George Sidney, Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson
Roles Art Direction
Rating63% 3.198153.198153.198153.198153.19815
Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell), au paradis, veut faire revivre ses grands spectacles de music-hall. S'ensuit, sortie de son esprit, une série de sketches musicaux ou humoristiques mettant en scène diverses vedettes.