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Anton Grot is a Set Designer and Art Direction Polonais born on 18 january 1884 at Kiełbasin (Pologne)
Anton Grot (18 January 1884 – 21 March 1974) was a Polish art director. He was born in Kiełbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California.
En 1927, il intègre jusqu'en fin de carrière la First National Pictures/Warner Bros., où l'un de ses premiers films est L'Arche de Noé de Michael Curtiz (1928, avec Dolores Costello et George O'Brien). Il retrouvera ce réalisateur pour quatorze autres films, dont Capitaine Blood (1935), La Vie privée d'Élisabeth d'Angleterre (1939) et L'Aigle des mers (1940), tous trois avec Errol Flynn.
Parmi ses autres films notables, citons Svengali d'Archie Mayo (1931, avec John Barrymore et Marian Marsh), Prologue de Lloyd Bacon (1933, avec James Cagney et Joan Blondell), Anthony Adverse de Mervyn LeRoy (1936, avec Fredric March et Olivia de Havilland), La Vie d'Émile Zola de William Dieterle (1937, avec Paul Muni et Gloria Holden), ou encore Rhapsodie en bleu d'Irving Rapper (1945, avec Robert Alda et Joan Leslie).
Son dernier film est Du sang sur le tapis vert de Vincent Sherman (1950, avec Virginia Mayo et Gordon MacRae), après lequel il se retire du cinéma pour se consacrer exclusivement à la peinture.
Il reçoit cinq nominations à l'Oscar des meilleurs décors (voir détails ci-dessous), mais n'en gagne pas, recevant toutefois en 1941 un Oscar technique (Academy Award for Technical Achievement ).
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Birth name Antoni Franciszek Groszewski
Nationality Pologne
Birth 18 january 1884 at Kiełbasin (Pologne)
Death 21 march 1974 (at 90 years) at Stanton (USA)
Nationality Pologne
Birth 18 january 1884 at Kiełbasin (Pologne)
Death 21 march 1974 (at 90 years) at Stanton (USA)
Biography
Émigré en 1909 aux États-Unis, sous le nom américanisé d'Anton Grot, il débute au cinéma comme directeur artistique sur deux films sortis en 1916. Durant la période du muet, il travaille notamment sur Robin des Bois d'Allan Dwan (comme assistant directeur artistique, 1922) et Le Voleur de Bagdad de Raoul Walsh (comme directeur artistique associé, 1924), tous deux avec Douglas Fairbanks, ainsi que sur Les Bateliers de la Volga de Cecil B. DeMille (comme directeur artistique à part entière, 1926, avec William Boyd et Elinor Fair).En 1927, il intègre jusqu'en fin de carrière la First National Pictures/Warner Bros., où l'un de ses premiers films est L'Arche de Noé de Michael Curtiz (1928, avec Dolores Costello et George O'Brien). Il retrouvera ce réalisateur pour quatorze autres films, dont Capitaine Blood (1935), La Vie privée d'Élisabeth d'Angleterre (1939) et L'Aigle des mers (1940), tous trois avec Errol Flynn.
Parmi ses autres films notables, citons Svengali d'Archie Mayo (1931, avec John Barrymore et Marian Marsh), Prologue de Lloyd Bacon (1933, avec James Cagney et Joan Blondell), Anthony Adverse de Mervyn LeRoy (1936, avec Fredric March et Olivia de Havilland), La Vie d'Émile Zola de William Dieterle (1937, avec Paul Muni et Gloria Holden), ou encore Rhapsodie en bleu d'Irving Rapper (1945, avec Robert Alda et Joan Leslie).
Son dernier film est Du sang sur le tapis vert de Vincent Sherman (1950, avec Virginia Mayo et Gordon MacRae), après lequel il se retire du cinéma pour se consacrer exclusivement à la peinture.
Il reçoit cinq nominations à l'Oscar des meilleurs décors (voir détails ci-dessous), mais n'en gagne pas, recevant toutefois en 1941 un Oscar technique (Academy Award for Technical Achievement ).
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Backfire (1950)
, 1h31Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Ed Begley, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Sheila MacRae, Richard Steven Rauber
Roles Art Direction
Rating65%
Bob Corey (Gordon MacRae) is an American soldier badly wounded at the end of World War II, and undergoing a number of surgical operations on his spine at a military hospital in California. He is tended by a nurse, Julie Benson (Virginia Mayo), and they have fallen in love. Corey's military pal, Steve Connolly (Edmond O'Brien), arrives in early November to discuss plans for the ranch they plan to purchase and operate together once Corey is out of the hospital. The two men pool their G.I. benefits (totaling $40,000) to do so. Corey's final surgery is in mid-December, but Connolly does not appear at the hospital afterward to see his friend. By Christmas, Corey is still in recovery but Connolly still remains absent. One night, as Corey lies semi-conscious in bed after being administered a sleeping drug, a woman with an foreign accent (Viveca Lindfors) appears at his bedside. She says Connolly has been in a horrible accident; his spine is shattered and he wants to die, but she has refused to help him commit suicide. The woman asks Corey what to do, and he advises her to do nothing to harm Steve, and just to wait. Corey slips into unconsciousness, and the woman disappears.
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
, 1h39Directed by Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Art Direction
Rating69%
Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) and her husband Michael (Don DeFore) suspect each other of cheating. For their wedding anniversary, Elvira books an ocean cruise to Rio de Janeiro but her husband claims that unexpected business will prevent him from going. Seeing an opportunity, Elvira pretends to take the trip alone, but in fact sends singer Georgia Garrett (Doris Day), a woman she'd met at the travel agency, in her place and under her name. By secretly staying behind, Elvira hopes to find out if Michael is indeed sneaking around behind her back. Michael, however, is suspicious over Elvira's supposed willingness to go on the trip alone, and so hires private detective Peter Virgil (Jack Carson) to see if she is sneaking around behind his back.
June Bride (1948)
, 1h36Directed by Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Betty Lynn, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Jerome Cowan
Roles Art Direction
Rating67%
Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson returns to New York City when his newspaper's Vienna office is closed and is offered a job on a women's magazine called Home Life. He accepts the position only because it will put him in daily contact with editor Linda Gilman, whom he once loved. Linda is averse to the idea because of his leaving her three years earlier, but agrees to hire him if he will keep their relationship on a strictly professional level.
One Sunday Afternoon (1948)
, 1h30Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Dorothy Malone, Oscar O'Shea, Ben Blue
Roles Art Direction
Rating57%
Un dimanche après-midi, Biff Grimes, un dentiste de New York se remémore le bon vieux temps avec son ami Nick, le barbier. Il reçoit un appel d'urgence pour soigner la dent d'Hugo Barnstead, le conseiller municipal. Biff en veut à Hugo, qu'il connait depuis sa jeunesse, mais il accepte de l'aider tout en imaginant sa vengeance. Leur rivalité remonte à des années auparavant, lorsque Biff et Hugo étaient tous deux amoureux de la belle Virginia Brush...
Possessed (1947)
, 1h48Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, Moroni Olsen
Roles Art Direction
Rating70%
A woman (Joan Crawford) is found wandering Los Angeles, unable to say anything other than "David". Admitted to a hospital, she is coaxed into recounting her life.
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
, 1h39Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Peinture, Théâtre, Serial killer films, Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Ann Carter
Roles Art Direction
Rating67%
While on vacation in Scotland, Sally Morton (Barbara Stanwyck) learns that her lover, the painter Geoffrey Carroll (Humphrey Bogart), is already married. Before returning home to his pre-teen daughter, Beatrice (Ann Carter), and his ill wife, Geoffrey buys a package (which the audience later learns contained poison) from chemist Horace Blagdon (Barry Bernard). The audience sees that Geoffrey is painting his wife's portrait, depicting her as an "angel of death".
The Unsuspected (1947)
, 1h43Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield, Fred Clark
Roles Art Direction
Rating71%
A woman, Roslyn Wright (played by the uncredited Barbara Woodell), is found dead hanging from a chandelier in a posh mansion occupied by Victor Grandison, a popular "true crime" radio story host. Roslyn was his secretary.
Nora Prentiss (1947)
, 1h51Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary DeCamp, Wanda Hendrix
Roles Art Direction
Rating70%
Dr. Richard Talbot, unhappy with the dull routine of his married life, begins an affair with nightclub singer Nora Prentiss. Feeling unable to ask his wife for a divorce, he fakes his own death by substituting a dead man's body for his own. He and Nora then move from San Francisco to New York, where Nora continues her singing career. Meanwhile, Talbot drinks heavily and becomes increasingly paranoid and reclusive as he learns that his death is under investigation. After a fight with Nora's nightclub boss, Talbot crashes his car and his face is badly scarred. The police, not realizing that the man is Talbot, arrest him for his own murder. Guilty about the suffering he caused his family and feeling he has no future, Talbot convinces Prentiss to keep his secret, allowing him to be convicted and executed.
My Reputation (1946)
, 1h34Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Eve Arden, Lucile Watson, Warner Anderson, Scotty Beckett
Roles Art Direction
Rating69%
200px When her beloved husband dies after a long illness, Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is comforted by the executor of her husband's estate, lawyer Frank Everett (Warner Anderson), who's been a family friend for years and, later, shows an interest in dating "Jess". Her mother (Lucile Watson) has worn black for decades, since her husband passed, and would love for her daughter to follow her example. Jess has two young boys: Kim (Scotty Beckett), who is fourteen, and Keith (Bobby Cooper), who's twelve. Both go off to school leaving their newly widowed mother at home alone to deal with her loneliness. She tries to reconnect with the "old gang" that she and her husband socialized with while he was alive, but finds they remind her too much of him. She's even accosted by one of them, George Van Orman (Jerome Cowan), when he brings her home one night. Fortunately, she has a real friend in Ginna Abbott (Eve Arden), whom she runs to, and stays with, the night she was accosted. Ginna and her husband Cary (John Ridgely) invite Jess to spend a week's vacation at Lake Tahoe with them.
Deception (1946)
, 1h50Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical, Noir, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, John Abbott, Russell Arms, Benson Fong
Roles Art Direction
Rating69%
Christine Radcliffe (Bette Davis) runs up the stairs of a college concert hall in the rain. The hall is filled with enraptured students, and her eyes fill with tears as she recognizes the cellist on stage: Karel Novak (Paul Henreid) who spent the war trapped in neutral Sweden. After the performance, Novak is mobbed by well-wishers, and a student reporter questions him about his favorite composers. Novak lists some famous ones, then adds, "And, of course, Hollenius."
Never Say Goodbye (1946)
, 1h37Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson, S.Z. Sakall, Forrest Tucker, Donald Woods
Roles Art Direction
Rating66%
Divorced New York couple Phil and Ellen Gayley each buy a winter coat for their seven-year-old daughter Phillippa, known as "Flip". Flip has spent the last six months with her father but is about to move in with her mother.
Mildred Pierce (1945)
, 1h51Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Moroni Olsen
Roles Art Direction
Rating78%
While the novel is told by a third-person narrator in strict chronological order, the film uses voice-over narration (the voice of Mildred). The story is framed by Mildred's interrogation by police after they discover the body of her second husband, Monte Beragon. The film, in noir fashion, opens with Beragon (Zachary Scott) having been shot. He murmurs the name "Mildred" before he dies. The police tell Mildred (Joan Crawford) that they believe the murderer is her first husband, Bert Pierce (Bruce Bennett). Bert has already been interrogated, and confessed to the crime. Mildred protests that he is too kind and gentle to commit murder, and goes on to relate her life story in flashback.
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
, 2h15Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Hazel Scott, Julie Bishop, Charles Coburn
Roles Art Direction
Rating69%
La relation tumultueuse du compositeur George Gershwin avec la chanteuse Julie Adams.
The Conspirators (1944)
, 1h41Directed by Don Siegel, Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Joseph Calleia
Roles Art Direction
Rating64%
During World War II, former schoolteacher turned Dutch resistance fighter Vincent Van Der Lyn (Henreid) causes so much trouble for the Nazis, they place a bounty on his head. As a result, he is ordered to travel to England by way of neutral Lisbon.
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
, 2h4Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Art Direction
Rating67%
Theater producers (Horton and Sakall) staging a wartime charity program, only to have the production taken over by their egotistical star (Eddie Cantor). Meanwhile, an aspiring singer (Dennis Morgan) and his songwriter girlfriend (Joan Leslie) conspire to get into the charity program by replacing Cantor with their look-alike friend, tour bus driver Joe Simpson (Eddie Cantor).