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'''Irving Rapper''' (16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999) was a British-born American [[film director]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title=Irving Rapper|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/107586/Irving-Rapper|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925014101/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/107586/Irving-Rapper|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times |
'''Irving Rapper''' (16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999) was a British-born American [[film director]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title=Irving Rapper|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/107586/Irving-Rapper|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925014101/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/107586/Irving-Rapper|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2015|archive-date=25 September 2015}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
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Additional credits include ''[[The Voice of the Turtle (film)|The Voice of the Turtle]]'' (1947),<ref name=NYT1>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=The Voice of the Turtle (1947) 'Voice Turtle' Becomes Movie|author=T.M.P.|date=26 December 1947|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C05EEDE1E3BEF3ABC4E51DFB467838C659EDE}}</ref> ''[[The Glass Menagerie (1950 film)|The Glass Menagerie]]'' (1950), ''[[Marjorie Morningstar (film)|Marjorie Morningstar]]'' (1958), and ''[[The Miracle (1959 film)|The Miracle]]'', a 1959 [[remake]] of the 1912 hand-colored, black-and-white film ''[[The Miracle (1912 film)|The Miracle]]''. |
Additional credits include ''[[The Voice of the Turtle (film)|The Voice of the Turtle]]'' (1947),<ref name=NYT1>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=The Voice of the Turtle (1947) 'Voice Turtle' Becomes Movie|author=T.M.P.|date=26 December 1947|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C05EEDE1E3BEF3ABC4E51DFB467838C659EDE}}</ref> ''[[The Glass Menagerie (1950 film)|The Glass Menagerie]]'' (1950), ''[[Marjorie Morningstar (film)|Marjorie Morningstar]]'' (1958), and ''[[The Miracle (1959 film)|The Miracle]]'', a 1959 [[remake]] of the 1912 hand-colored, black-and-white film ''[[The Miracle (1912 film)|The Miracle]]''. |
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Biopics directed by Rapper include: ''[[The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944 film)|The Adventures of Mark Twain]]'' (1944), ''[[Rhapsody in Blue (film)|Rhapsody in Blue]]'' (1945),<ref name=NYT/> ''[[Pontius Pilate (1962 film)|Pontius Pilate]]'' (co-director, 1962), ''[[The Christine Jorgensen Story]]'' (1970), and his last film, ''[[Born Again (film)|Born Again]]'' (1978), about convicted [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] conspirator and former [[Richard Nixon]] aide [[Charles Colson]].{{ |
Biopics directed by Rapper include: ''[[The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944 film)|The Adventures of Mark Twain]]'' (1944), ''[[Rhapsody in Blue (film)|Rhapsody in Blue]]'' (1945),<ref name=NYT/> ''[[Pontius Pilate (1962 film)|Pontius Pilate]]'' (co-director, 1962), ''[[The Christine Jorgensen Story]]'' (1970), and his last film, ''[[Born Again (film)|Born Again]]'' (1978), about convicted [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] conspirator and former [[Richard Nixon]] aide [[Charles Colson]].{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} |
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==Death== |
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Rapper died on December 20, 1999 at the age of 101 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in [[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles]]; he had been a resident at the home for four years.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/arts/irving-rapper-101-film-director-dies.html</ref><ref>https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-29-me-48573-story.html</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 09:08, 10 October 2024
Irving Rapper | |
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| Born | 16 January 1898 London, England, UK |
| Died | 20 December 1999 (aged 101) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, dialogue director |
| Years active | 1929–78 |
Irving Rapper (16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999) was a British-born American film director.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born to a Jewish family[2] in London, Rapper emigrated to the United States and became an actor and a stage director[1] on Broadway while studying at New York University. In 1936, he went to Hollywood, where he was hired by Warner Bros. as an assistant director and dialogue coach. He proved invaluable in translating and mediating for non-native English-speaking directors. He made his directing debut with the 1941 film Shining Victory, in which his friend Bette Davis appeared as a show of support for him. He would go on to direct her in four more films, Now, Voyager (1942) - selected, in 2007, for preservation in the United States National Film Registry - , The Corn Is Green (1945), Deception (1946), and Another Man's Poison (1952). In later years, Rapper admitted that he found Davis very difficult to work with and that she would, "...hold the whole set hostage, stopping production for a day, because of her mood."[citation needed]
Rapper's film One Foot in Heaven (1941) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Perhaps his best film in a studio other than Warner Bros. was The Brave One (1956) about a Mexican boy who must rescue his bull from a brutal fight against a top matador, which earned the then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an Oscar for his original screenplay, despite being a box office failure. Additional credits include The Voice of the Turtle (1947),[3] The Glass Menagerie (1950), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), and The Miracle, a 1959 remake of the 1912 hand-colored, black-and-white film The Miracle.
Biopics directed by Rapper include: The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), Rhapsody in Blue (1945),[1] Pontius Pilate (co-director, 1962), The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970), and his last film, Born Again (1978), about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson.[citation needed]
Death
[edit]Rapper died on December 20, 1999 at the age of 101 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles; he had been a resident at the home for four years.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Irving Rapper". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015.
- ^ Jewish Post (Indianapolis): "Our Film Folks of Hollywood" by Leon Gutterman, Such a genius is slight, modest, dark-eyed Director Irving Kapper, the Jewish 'wonder man' at Warner Bros. studio." (12 October 1945), , newspapers.library.in.gov. Accessed 29 March 2022.
- ^ T.M.P. (26 December 1947). "The Voice of the Turtle (1947) 'Voice Turtle' Becomes Movie". The New York Times.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/arts/irving-rapper-101-film-director-dies.html
- ^ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-29-me-48573-story.html
