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Walter Holscher is a Set Designer American born on 23 january 1901 at Hamburg (German)
Walter Holscher (January 23, 1901 – August 7, 1973) was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.
(1939)
(Set Designer)
(1946)
(Art Direction)
(1957)
(Art Direction)
(1956)
(Art Direction)
(1960)
(Art Direction)
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Walter Holscher
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Nationality USA
Birth 23 january 1901 at Hamburg (German)
Death 7 august 1973 (at 72 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 23 january 1901 at Hamburg (German)
Death 7 august 1973 (at 72 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
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(1939)(Set Designer)
(1946)(Art Direction)
(1957)(Art Direction)
(1956)(Art Direction)
(1960)(Art Direction)
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13 West Street (1962)
Directed by Philip Leacock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger, Michael Callan, Dolores Dorn, Kenneth MacKenna, Margaret Hayes
Roles Art Direction
Rating62%
For no discernible reason, scientist Walt Sherill is assaulted and viciously beaten by a group of well-dressed young men. When the police, including investigating officer Detective Koleski, are in his opinion too slow in finding the culprits, Sherill decides to go after them on his own.
Cry for Happy (1961)
, 1h50Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor, James Shigeta, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Howard St. John
Roles Art Direction
Rating58%
During the Korean War, Andy Cyphers (Glenn Ford), a Navy photographer and his three-man team occupy a Tokyo geisha house, though it is off-limits and four girls are living there.
Song Without End (1960)
, 2h21Directed by George Cukor, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt
Roles Art Direction
Rating59%
Jeune pianiste de talent et salué par la critique, Franz Lizst n'en reste pas moins un personnage torturé par la solitude. À l'occasion d'une tournée européenne, le jeune artiste fait la rencontre de la princesse Caroline Sayn-Wittengenstei. Tous deux entament une idylle à double tranchant puisque cette nouvelle relation a une conséquence négative sur les performances de Franz.
Sappy Bull Fighters (1959)
Directed by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Greta Thyssen, George J. Lewis, Joe Palma
Roles Art Direction
Rating52%
The Stooges are vaudeville entertainers who trek to Mexico to perform their gag bullfight shtick, with Joe as the brave matador, and Moe and Larry dressed in a bull costume. Unfortunately, their gig is cancelled once they arrive. According to the trio, the manager fired them after they refused to do 10 additional shows for free. With no money to return home the stooges are stranded. Feeling bad for them, attractive señorita Greta (Greta Thyssen) gets the boys a gig at the local bull ring. However, when she leaves Greta mistakenly takes the trio's suitcase instead of hers. They go to retrieve it, however, while there Joe becomes attracted to Greta and begins to kiss her, initially unbeknownst to him, her husband José (George J. Lewis)sees this and becomes jealous, he orders them out and threatens them if he ever sees them again. The stooges leave but realize they again have the wrong suitcase forcing them to return and hide from a sleeping José, José awakens and chases the stooges but they escape with their correct suitcase.
Me and the Colonel (1958)
, 1h49Directed by Peter Glenville
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt
Roles Art Direction
Rating69%
In Paris during the World War II invasion of France by Nazi Germany, Jewish refugee S. L. Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye) seeks to leave the country before it falls. Meanwhile, Polish diplomat Dr. Szicki (Ludwig Stössel) gives antisemitic, autocratic Polish Colonel Prokoszny (Curt Jürgens) secret information that must be delivered to London by a certain date.
Pal Joey (1957)
, 1h51Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Hank Henry, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Art Direction
Rating65%
The setting is San Francisco; Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra) is a second-rate singer, a heel known for his womanizing ways (calling women "mice"), but charming and funny. When Joey meets Linda English (Kim Novak), a naive chorus girl, he has stirrings of real feelings. However, that does not stop him from romancing a former flame and ex-stripper (Joey says, "She used to be 'Vera...with the Vanishing Veils'"), now society matron Vera Prentice-Simpson (Rita Hayworth), a wealthy, willful, and lonely widow, in order to convince her to finance his dream, "Chez Joey", a night club of his own.
Outer Space Jitters (1957)
Directed by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Comedy science fiction films, Space opera, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Philip Van Zandt, Emil Sitka, Dan Blocker
Roles Art Direction
Rating57%
The Stooges tell their infant sons (also the Stooges) a story about the time they blasted to outer space. In this story, the Stooges are assistants to Professor Jones (Emil Sitka) who travel to the planet Sunev (Venus spelled backwards). The planet's leader, the Grand Slitz of Sunev (Gene Roth) greets them cordially enough, but it soon becomes apparent that he has plans to bring prehistoric men to life and take over the planet Earth. No sooner does Professor Jones catch onto the Grand Slitz's plan does he end up being tied up.
Escapade in Japan (1957)
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Teresa Wright, Cameron Mitchell, Jon Provost, Philip Ober, Kuniko Miyake, Susumu Fujita
Roles Art Direction
Rating59%
After his plane goes down, an American boy is rescued from the sea by a Japanese fisherman and his family. When police arrive in the village, the fisherman's son fears that they have done something wrong. He and the American boy go on the run. They meet interesting people and have many adventures, travelling across the country and eluding the police, who are searching for the American boy.
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
, 2h3Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
Actors Kim Novak, Tyrone Power, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Shepperd Strudwick, Jack Albertson
Roles Art Direction
Rating67%
Fresh out of pharmacy school, young Eddy Duchin travels to New York in the 1920s to take a job playing piano for bandleader Leo Reisman's orchestra. But upon arrival, Eddy learns there is no such job.
Bundle of Joy (1956)
, 1h38Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Musical films
Actors Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan, Nita Talbot, Una Merkel
Roles Art Direction
Rating60%
He Laughed Last (1956)
, 1h17Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Anthony Dexter, Lucy Marlow, Richard Long, Alan Reed, Jesse White, Florenz Ames
Roles Art Direction
Rating55%
A Runyonesque Roaring 20s musical comedy about a show girl who circumstance casts as an unlikely mob boss.
Reprisal! (1956)
, 1h14Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Michael Pate, Kathryn Crosby, Edward Platt, Frank DeKova
Roles Art Direction
Rating64%
Frank Madden se rend dans la petite ville de Kendall, dans l'Oklahoma, où il a acheté un ranch. Lorsqu'il entre dans la ville, les rues sont désertes. En fait, les habitants se sont réunis au Saloon pour assister au procès des frères Shipley qui ont lynché deux Indiens. Malgré des preuves accablantes, les trois bandits sont acquittés par un jury blanc qui semble peu sensible aux décisions du juge. Mais le shérif craint que ce verdict puisse provoquer des représailles de la part des peaux rouges...
My Sister Eileen (1955)
, 1h48Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Horace McMahon, Bob Fosse, Tommy Rall
Roles Art Direction
Rating67%
Witty Ruth and pretty Eileen Sherwood, sisters from Columbus, Ohio, relocate to New York City and settle in a rundown basement studio apartment in a Greenwich Village building owned by Papa Appopolous. Ruth aspires to be a writer, while Eileen hopes to achieve success as an actress. They become acquainted with their neighbor Ted Loomis, an athlete who lives with his fiancée Helen.
Three for the Show (1955)
, 1h33Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Gower Champion, Marge Champion, Myron McCormick, Paul Harvey
Roles Art Direction
Rating60%
Singing-and-dancing stage star Julie (Betty Grable) is told that husband Marty (Jack Lemmon) is reported missing in action during Korea. After a long waiting period, she makes plans to marry Vernon (Gower Champion), who is Marty's best friend. After the marriage, Marty (who crashed but survived on an island) turns up at one of Julie's shows. Upon discovering Julie's new marriage, Marty demands his rights as her first husband.
Pushover (1954)
, 1h28Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Politic
Actors Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone, Donald Patrick Harvey II, E. G. Marshall
Roles Art Direction
Rating70%
Honest cop Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray) is tasked to recover $200,000 after a bank robbery. He and other officers maintain a 24-hour surveillance on Lona McLane (Kim Novak), a girlfriend of one of the robbers.