Harry Rapf

Production

Harry Rapf

Born — Died

1880-10-16 — 1949-02-06

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

40 titles

Harry Rapf (16 October 1880 – 6 February 1949) was an American film producer. Rapf began his career in 1917, and during a 20-year career became a well-known producer of films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He created the comedic duo Dane & Arthur featuring Karl Dane and George K. Arthur in the late 1920s. Rapf was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Possessed poster
6.9

Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?

Possessed

1931

The Broadway Melody poster
5.1

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

The Broadway Melody

1929

Live, Love and Learn poster
5.6

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange roommate, and the best apartment poverty can buy.

Live, Love and Learn

1937

The Champ poster
7.1

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

The Champ

1931

Scene of the Crime poster
6.1

A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.

Scene of the Crime

1949

The Bad Man of Brimstone poster
6.8

A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

The Bad Man of Brimstone

1937

Espionage poster
7.0

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

Espionage

1937

They Gave Him a Gun poster
6.7

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

They Gave Him a Gun

1937

The Ice Follies of 1939 poster
5.6

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.

The Ice Follies of 1939

1939

Tough Guy poster
5.1

An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.

Tough Guy

1936

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 poster
5.7

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

1929

Let Freedom Ring poster
6.8

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

Let Freedom Ring

1939

The Chief poster
5.5

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

The Chief

1933

The Night Is Young poster
6.0

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.

The Night Is Young

1935

The Good Old Soak poster
9.0

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

The Good Old Soak

1937

The Murder Man poster
7.1

Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.

The Murder Man

1935

The Accidental Honeymoon poster
NR

Young Kitty runs away from home to avoid marrying a man she doesn't love. Her car breaks down on a country road and she meets Robert, a young artist who has just been turned down by a woman he loved madly and is about to commit suicide by lying on the railroad tracks.

The Accidental Honeymoon

1918

The Passionate Plumber poster
6.0

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.

The Passionate Plumber

1932

Why Girls Leave Home poster
10.0

Mr. Hedder is an old fashioned man who will not let his daughter Anna own an evening gown, but she is given one by a friend who is a model. Hedder believes that she stole it and confers with Mr. Wallace, the owner of the store. On Wallace's advice, Hedder hits Anna, causing her to leave home and move in with some gold diggers.

Why Girls Leave Home

1921

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry poster
5.9

Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

1937

No artwork available
5.5

Adaptation of Cosmo Hamilton's novel "The Sins of the Children" about a bacteriologist father and his wayward children.

The Sins of the Children

1918

Min and Bill poster
6.2

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Min and Bill

1930

New Morals for Old poster
4.5

Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.

New Morals for Old

1932

A Wicked Woman poster
5.0

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.

A Wicked Woman

1934

Donkey Baseball poster
6.0

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

Donkey Baseball

1935

Where the North Begins poster
5.2

A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel a kinship with him that is stronger than the one he has with his adopted pack.

Where the North Begins

1923

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford poster
6.0

Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years.

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

1931

Everybody Sing poster
5.0

Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.

Everybody Sing

1938

The Girl Downstairs poster
4.7

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.

The Girl Downstairs

1938

Lucretia Lombard poster
7.0

Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.

Lucretia Lombard

1923

Whipsaw poster
6.4

Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.

Whipsaw

1935

Brass poster
5.0

With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.

Brass

1923

After Midnight poster
8.5

When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him back to health. He decides to go straight and marry her. Mary buys a $1000 Liberty Bond as an investment, while Joe saves up and buys a taxi to start his own business. Then Maisie, Mary's wild and money-crazy sister, shows up, which leads to tragedy.

After Midnight

1927

Gallant Bess poster
7.0

Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.)

Gallant Bess

1946

Trained Hoofs poster
7.5

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

Trained Hoofs

1935

Mad Holiday poster
6.4

A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.

Mad Holiday

1936

Rags to Riches poster
10.0

A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him.

Rags to Riches

1922

Your Best Friend poster
10.0

A Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.

Your Best Friend

1922

No artwork available
4.0

An homage to NYC in the form of a short travelogue.

Manhattan Serenade

1929