
Production
Harry Rapf
Born 1880-10-16 · New York City, New York, USA
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
Acting credits
Behind the camera
7.0Marion 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
7.1A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
The Champ
1931
5.1The 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
5.5The 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
5.7An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929
5.1An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.
Tough Guy
1936
7.1Steve 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
6.1A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Scene of the Crime
1949
5.0A 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
6.7With 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
NRYoung 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
5.6Mary 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
6.4Hot 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
4.7A 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
5.0Boisterous 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
6.4A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Mad Holiday
1936
5.6A 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
4.5Proper 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
6.0Young 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
6.0Paris 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
6.8A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937
7.0Two 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
10.0A 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
7.0Marshall 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