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Robert M. Haas is a Art Direction and Costume Design American born on 3 january 1889 at Newark (USA)

Robert M. Haas

Robert M. Haas
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Nationality USA
Birth 3 january 1889 at Newark (USA)
Death 17 december 1962 (at 73 years) at Costa Mesa (USA)

Robert M. Haas (3 January 1889 – 17 December 1962) was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 120 films between 1920 and 1950.

He was born in Newark, New Jersey and died in Costa Mesa, California.

Biography

Après une formation d'architecte, Robert M. Haas intègre l'industrie du cinéma et œuvre comme directeur artistique ou chef décorateur sur près de cent-trente films américains dès 1919, principalement au sein de la Warner Bros. (à partir de 1929).

Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons Romola d'Henry King (1924), Le Prince et le Pauvre de William Keighley (1937), Le Faucon maltais de John Huston (1941, remake du film éponyme de 1931 auquel il avait déjà contribué), ou encore La Garce de King Vidor (1949).

Ses deux derniers films sont L'Esclave du gang de Vincent Sherman et La Ménagerie de verre d'Irving Rapper, sortis en 1950.

Durant sa carrière, il obtient deux nominations à l'Oscar des meilleurs décors (sans en gagner), en 1948 pour Mon père et nous de Michael Curtiz (1947) et en 1949 pour Johnny Belinda de Jean Negulesco (1948).

Best films

Johnny Belinda (1948)
(Art Direction)
Now, Voyager (1942)
(Art Direction)
Dark Victory (1939)
(Art Direction)
Jezebel (1938)
(Art Direction)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
(Art Direction)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
(Art Direction)

Usually with

Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(49 films)
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(32 films)
Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
(29 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(27 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert M. Haas (98 films)

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Art

The Damned Don't Cry, 1h43
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Kent Smith, Selena Royle
Roles Art Direction
Rating71% 3.596453.596453.596453.596453.59645
Ethel Whitehead (Crawford) is a weary housewife living at the edge of the Texas oil fields. When her young son is killed in a bicycle accident, she leaves her laborer husband Roy (Egan) for the big city. She quickly learns to use her physical charms to get ahead. In cahoots with bookkeeper friend Martin Blackford (Smith), Ethel works her way into the entourage of George Castleman (Brian), a mobster who enjoys an elegant lifestyle. With the help of socialite Patricia Longworth (Royle), Castleman grooms Ethel in the arts of cultured living. After making her his mistress, he tries to use her to trap his arch-rival Nick Prenta (Cochran). The trap fails when Ethel falls in love with Prenta. The betrayed Castleman kills Prenta and goes gunning for Ethel but dies in a shootout with Blackford.
The Glass Menagerie, 1h47
Directed 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
Roles Art Direction
Rating70% 3.5378353.5378353.5378353.5378353.537835
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.
My Dream Is Yours, 1h41
Directed 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 Art Direction
Rating65% 3.296583.296583.296583.296583.29658
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.
Beyond the Forest, 1h37
Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Melodrama
Actors Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Minor Watson, Dona Drake
Roles Art Direction
Rating67% 3.39793.39793.39793.39793.3979
Rosa Moline is the neglected wife of a small-town Wisconsin doctor. She grows bored and becomes infatuated with a visiting Chicago businessman. She extorts money from her husband's patients and uses the cash to flee to Chicago, but the businessman does not welcome her. She returns home and becomes pregnant by her husband. The businessman has a change of heart and follows her to Wisconsin. He wants her back, but not her baby, so she attempts to abort by throwing herself down a hill, gets peritonitis and dies.
The Inspector General, 1h42
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart
Roles Art Direction
Rating66% 3.34623.34623.34623.34623.3462
Georgi (Danny Kaye), an illiterate member of a wandering band of Gypsies led by Yakov (Walter Slezak) escapes from a travelling medicine show after he innocently lets slip that the elixir they're selling is a fraud. Tired and hungry, he wanders into the small town of Brodny and whilst trying to sample the contents of a horse's feedbag, he's arrested as a vagrant and sentenced to hang the next day by a corrupt police chief (Alan Hale Sr.), desperate to prove his efficiency.
Always Leave Them Laughing, 1h56
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Bert Lahr, Alan Hale, Jerome Cowan
Roles Art Direction
Rating57% 2.85382.85382.85382.85382.8538
A nobody, comic Kip Cooper does his act on stage in Asbury Park, New Jersey to more snores than roars. He asks out one of the performing Washburn sisters for a date, and finds that Fay's parents once did a vaudeville act that Kip still knows by heart.
John Loves Mary, 1h36
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Jack Carson, Ronald Reagan, Wayne Morris, Patricia Neal, Edward Arnold, Virginia Field
Roles Art Direction
Rating61% 3.0964553.0964553.0964553.0964553.096455
John Lawrence (Ronald Reagan) is a returning GI. Mary McKinley (Patricia Neal in her film debut) is the girl he left behind. But their reunion will have to wait: John has returned with cockney war bride Lilly Herbish (Virginia Field) in tow. It seems that John married Lilly as a favor to get her into the U.S., intending to divorce her so that she can wed her true love, John's old pal Fred Taylor (Jack Carson).
Johnny Belinda, 1h42
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally, Jan Sterling
Roles Art Direction
Rating76% 3.842353.842353.842353.842353.84235
The film is the story of a deaf-mute young woman, Belinda McDonald (Jane Wyman), who is befriended by the new doctor, Dr. Robert Richardson (Lew Ayres), who comes to Cape Breton Island on the east coast of Canada. The doctor realizes that, although she cannot hear or speak, Belinda is very intelligent. She lives on a farm with her father, Black McDonald (Charles Bickford), and her aunt, Aggie McDonald (Agnes Moorehead), and rarely goes into town. The family sells farm goods to the nearby town, mainly flour. Her father and aunt resent Belinda because her mother died giving birth to her. Dr. Richardson teaches Belinda sign language and what things are. Over time, his affection for her grows.
The Voice of the Turtle, 1h43
Directed 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
Roles Art Direction
Rating67% 3.3927553.3927553.3927553.3927553.392755
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.
My Girl Tisa, 1h35
Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lilli Palmer, Sam Wanamaker, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Hale, Hugo Haas, Gale Robbins
Roles Art Direction
Rating65% 3.2809353.2809353.2809353.2809353.280935
Life with Father, 1h58
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, Zasu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon
Roles Art Direction
Rating70% 3.5461553.5461553.5461553.5461553.546155
Clarence Day (William Powell), is a benevolent despot of his 1880s New York City household. His wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne), is the real head of the household. The anecdotal story encompasses such details as the romance of Clarence (Jimmy Lydon) with pretty out-of-towner Mary (Elizabeth Taylor). Vinnie tries to get her headstrong husband baptized, else he'll never be able to enter the Kingdom of God.
Devotion
Devotion (1946)
, 1h47
Directed by Edward Chodorov, Robert Buckner, Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about writers, Films about families
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Nancy Coleman, John Arthur Kennedy
Roles Art Direction
Rating65% 3.2946053.2946053.2946053.2946053.294605
The story takes place in the early 1800s, when the Brontë sisters Charlotte and Anne have made the decision to leave their family - their sister Emily, their brother Branwell, their aunt and their vicar father - to take positions as governesses in other families. The two sisters long to break free from their tedious life and get experiences from the outside world, to prepare for their careers as writers.
A Stolen Life, 1h49
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan, Charles Ruggles, Bruce Bennett
Roles Art Direction
Rating71% 3.5944853.5944853.5944853.5944853.594485
Kate Bosworth (played by Davis) is a sincere, demure girl and artist who misses her boat to an island off New England, where she intends to meet her sister Patricia and cousin Freddie. She persuades Bill Emerson (played by Ford) to take her home in his boat. Their relationship grows while she paints a portrait of Eben Folger (Walter Brennan), the old lighthouse keeper, and Kate is very much in love.
Janie Gets Married, 1h29
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Malone
Roles Art Direction
Rating60% 3.0015653.0015653.0015653.0015653.001565
Dick Lawrence revient de guerre dans sa bonne ville d'Hortonville. Il y retrouve sa mère Thelma, son beau-père John et surtout sa charmante petite amie Janie Conway, à laquelle il ne tarde pas à se fiancer puis à se marier. La jeune femme, qui trouve son époux encore trop peu adapté à la vie civile, va tout faire le réformer... en toute discrétion.
Roughly Speaking, 1h57
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, Robert Hutton, Andrea King, Johnny Sheffield
Roles Art Direction
Rating69% 3.4930553.4930553.4930553.4930553.493055
Louise Randall Pierson (Rosalind Russell) does not have an easy life. When she is a teenager, her beloved father dies, leaving her, her mother, and her sister in financial difficulty. However, heeding her father's advice to shoot for the stars, she remains undaunted. She goes to college and learns typing and shorthand; on her first (temporary) job, she overcomes the prejudice of her new boss, Lew Morton (Alan Hale, Sr.), against women workers.