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Harry Rapf ( New York, 16 ottobre 1880 – Los Angeles, 6 febbraio 1949) è stato un produttore cinematografico statunitense . È uno dei 36 fondatori dell' Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences che nasce nel 1927, un'organizzazione per il miglioramento e la promozione mondiale del cinema. L'accademia, nel 1929, crea il Premio ...
Biography. Producer. Filmography. References. External links. Harry Rapf (16 October 1880 in New York City [1] – 6 February 1949 in Los Angeles ), was an American film producer. Biography. Born to a Jewish family, [2] Rapf began his career in 1917, and during a 20-year career became a well-known producer of films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Produced by Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg and directed by Charles Reisner, it features nearly all of MGM's stars in a two-hour revue that includes three segments in Technicolor. The masters of ceremonies are Conrad Nagel and Jack Benny. [5]
Editor Lewis Milestone recalled that he noticed unworkable continuity mistakes between the two directors such as actor Walter McGrail shot in two different locations but at the same time in the script. Milestone tried to avoid editing what he saw as a doomed film, but producer Harry Rapf insisted he finish it.
It was originally intended as an all-star attraction, like the studio's successful The Hollywood Revue of 1929 produced by Harry Rapf. Rapf's 1933 revue would star Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Marie Dressler, and Lee Tracy, supported by studio comedians Jimmy Durante, Lupe Vélez, Charles Butterworth, and Jack Pearl.
Nell'ingranaggio ( To-Day) è un film muto del 1917 diretto da Ralph W. Ince e prodotto da Harry Rapf basato su Today, lavoro teatrale di George Broadhurst e Abraham S. Schomer . Una storia drammatica sulla prostituzione che aveva avuto a Broadway ben 280 repliche, interpretata sul palcoscenico da Emily Stevens.
Biografia. Nascut en una família jueva, [2] Rapf va començar la seva carrera el 1917, i durant 20 anys es va convertir en un conegut productor de pel·lícules per a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Va crear l'equip de comèdia de Karl Dane i George K. Arthur a finals de la dècada de 1920.
