Connection
H. C. Potter is a Director and Theatre Play American born on 13 november 1904 at New York City (USA)
Henry Codman Potter II, plus connu sous le nom de H. C. Potter, né le 13 novembre 1904 à New York, État de New York, et mort le 31 août 1977 à Southampton, État de New York, est un réalisateur et scénariste américain.
En 1926, il a épousé Annie Wylie Lucilla, avec qui il a eu trois fils (Daniel J. Potter, Robert A. Potter et Earl Wylie Potter).
En 1958, il a pris sa retraite de l'industrie du cinéma et a fondé à New York une société de production de scène avec Richard Meyers, ville où il est décédé en 1977.
Cet excellent technicien est passé à la notoriété avec son film "Hellzapoppin" réalisé en 1941, qui est considéré comme l'un des chef-d'œuvre de l'absurde.
(1947)
(Director)
(1938)
(Director)
Source : Wikidata
H. C. Potter
- Infos
- Photos
- Best films
- Family
- Characters
- Awards
Birth name Henry Codman Potter II
Nationality USA
Birth 13 november 1904 at New York City (USA)
Death 31 august 1977 (at 72 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 13 november 1904 at New York City (USA)
Death 31 august 1977 (at 72 years) at New York City (USA)
Biography
H.C. Potter est né en 1904 à New York, il est le petit-fils de l'évêque de l'Église épiscopale des États-Unis Henry Codman Potter. En 1936, il a été diplômé de l'Université de Yale. De 1927 à 1935, il a mis en scène de nombreuses productions de Broadway, puis est allé à Hollywood, où il a dirigé plus de 20 films et a acquis une réputation de spécialiste des comédies.En 1926, il a épousé Annie Wylie Lucilla, avec qui il a eu trois fils (Daniel J. Potter, Robert A. Potter et Earl Wylie Potter).
En 1958, il a pris sa retraite de l'industrie du cinéma et a fondé à New York une société de production de scène avec Richard Meyers, ville où il est décédé en 1977.
Cet excellent technicien est passé à la notoriété avec son film "Hellzapoppin" réalisé en 1941, qui est considéré comme l'un des chef-d'œuvre de l'absurde.
Best films
(1947)(Director)
(1938)(Director)
Usually with
Filmography of H. C. Potter (23 films)
Director
Add to a movie list
Top Secret Affair (1957)
, 1h40Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas, Jim Backus, Paul Stewart, John Cromwell, Roland Winters
Rating61%
Melville A. "Ironpants" Goodwin (Kirk Douglas) is a much-decorated U.S. Army major general who has just been appointed chairman of the Joint Atomic International Commission by the President of the United States. This is upsetting to wealthy Dorothy "Dottie" Peale, a media mogul who wanted a close friend of her father's to get the position.
Three for the Show (1955)
, 1h33Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Gower Champion, Marge Champion, Myron McCormick, Paul Harvey
Rating60%
Singing-and-dancing stage star Julie (Betty Grable) is told that husband Marty (Jack Lemmon) is reported missing in action during Korea. After a long waiting period, she makes plans to marry Vernon (Gower Champion), who is Marty's best friend. After the marriage, Marty (who crashed but survived on an island) turns up at one of Julie's shows. Upon discovering Julie's new marriage, Marty demands his rights as her first husband.
The Miniver Story (1950)
, 1h44Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Leo Genn, Cathy O'Donnell, Reginald Owen
Rating63%
The story, told partly in flashback and narrated by Clem Miniver, commences on VE Day as Clem and Judy return home from war service and Toby returns from a foster family in America.
, 1h34Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Sharyn Moffett, Ian Wolfe
Rating71%
Jim Blandings (Grant), a bright account executive in the advertising business, lives with his wife Muriel (Loy) and two daughters in a cramped New York apartment. Muriel secretly plans to remodel their apartment. After rejecting this idea, Jim Blandings comes across an ad for new homes in Connecticut and they get excited about moving.
The Time of Your Life (1948)
, 1h45Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris, Jeanne Cagney, Broderick Crawford, Ward Bond
Rating61%
Joe est un pilier de bar qui passe ses journées à boire du champagne dans le bar de Nick. Un jour, une femme dénommée Kitty se joint aux habitués et tombe bientôt amoureuse de Tom, un ami de Joe. Tom et Kitty se marient. Peu après, arrive un inconnu qui déstabilise le groupe des habitués.
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
, 1h40Directed by H. C. Potter, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Percy Kilbride, Willard Parker
Rating66%
Marvin Payne (Stewart) is a World War II army air force veteran trying to make it on a shoe-string with a startup air-freight business. On an overnight stay in New York he has the misfortune of being roomed next to the reluctant bride Dee Dee Dillwood (Fontaine) and her rather formal husband Henry Benson. A ruckus causes Payne to become enmeshed in the world of Miss Dillwood. Hiding from her husband, Payne assumes the rather vague Miss Dillwood is a penniless country girl come to the city, who has descended to sleeping with married men to get by. He grudgingly agrees to give her a lift out of town and encourages her to go back to her parents. All the while Payne does not realize that Miss Dillwood is independently wealthy, and the married man she was to sleep with was the man she had just exchanged vows with that afternoon. Meanwhile, Payne's fellow veteran and co-pilot, Bullets Baker (Albert) encourages Payne to relax and enjoy life. His encouragements to join him and a couple of young ladies for a few laughs fall on deaf ears. It is with great surprise than that Baker finds a girl in the straight-laced Payne's room the following morning. A rough and tumble flight across country result in a number of surprises, not the least of which is that Marvin discovers he cares for the tag-along Miss Dillwood.
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
, 1h37Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Rhys Williams
Rating71%
Katie Holstrom (Loretta Young), a Swedish-American, leaves the family farm to go to nursing school in Capitol City. Barn painter Adolph Petree (Rhys Williams), who had completed a job for Katie's father, offers her a ride, but robs her of her money. Katie, refusing to ask her family for help, goes to work as a maid in the home of political power broker Agatha Morley (Ethel Barrymore) and her son, U.S. Representative Glenn Morley (Joseph Cotten). Soon, she impresses Agatha and her loyal majordomo Joseph Clancey (Charles Bickford) with her refreshing, down-to-earth common sense and Glenn with her other charms.
A Likely Story (1947)
, 1h20Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Sam Levene, Dan Tobin, Nestor Paiva, Henry Kulky
Rating57%
Bill Baker (Bill Williams) has recently returned from war service as an aerial gunner in the Pacific where he had been hospitalized for mental illness. On his way to New York he meets a group of new characters on the train: painting artist Vickie North (Barbara Hale) and her brother Jamie (Lanny Rees), plus Louie (Sam Levene), an ex-convict. Louie mistakes Bill for a fellow gangster when he says he has "just got out" and offers him to come work for his gangster boss, Tiny McBride (Nestor Paiva). Bill talks to Louie about his numerous dizzy spells and his severe case of hypochondria. Later on the train, Bill ia accidentally knocked unconscious when a case falls down from a shelf onto his head.
Victory Through Air Power (1943)
, 1h5Directed by Hal Roach, H. C. Potter, Charles Monroe Schulz, Clyde Geronimi, Fred Moore, Franklin Thomas, James Algar, Perce Pearce, Jack Kinney
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary, Animation
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Children's films
Actors Art Baker
Rating64%
Le fait débute par un rappel historique. Il évoque les controverses liées au Général William Mitchell, pionnier de l'aviation militaire entre 1919 et 1936, année de sa mort. Il militait pour le développement d'une aviation ayant des bombardiers, mais sa hiérarchie croyait en la supériorité de la marine de guerre. En 1925, il fut même rétrogradé comme colonel.
Mr. Lucky (1943)
, 1h40Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Alan Carney, Gladys Cooper, Henry Stephenson
Rating70%
Swede (Charles Bickford) rows up to a public dock in a dinghy. He hides when he spots a young woman who walks to the end of the pier. When a new night watchman (Emory Parnell) notices her as well, Swede stops him from bothering her. The sailor begins recounting her story, and the film segues into one long, continuous flashback.
Second Chorus (1941)
, 1h24Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Paulette Goddard, Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Butterworth, Don Brodie
Rating57%
Danny O'Neill (Fred Astaire), and Hank Taylor (Burgess Meredith) are friends and rival trumpeters, with "O'Neill's Perennials", a college band. Both of them have managed to prolong their college career by failing seven years in a row. At a performance, Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) catches Danny and Hank's eye. She serves them a collection notice for her boss, a debt collector, but the fast talking O'Neill and Taylor soon have her working for them as their manager.
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
, 1h24Directed by Edward F. Cline, H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Musical films
Actors Ole Olsen, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Mischa Auer, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Rating73%
La comédie et le film traitent, sur un mode burlesque, des us et coutumes des milieux du spectacle, du théâtre et du cinéma. Ole (Ole Olsen) et Chic (Chic Johnson) ont entrepris de tourner un film mais le producteur impose un coscénariste, Jeff. Ce dernier est amoureux de Kitty, future très riche héritière convoitée par Woody, un jeune homme fortuné. Parallèlement, Betty, la sœur de Chic, s'est éprise d'un prétendu aristocrate russe, un soi-disant comte qui est en fait un vrai prince russe mais se fait passer pour un aventurier. Quimby, un détective, vient se mêler aux divers quiproquos et en provoquer.
Congo Maisie (1940)
, 1h11Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson, Shepperd Strudwick, J. M. Kerrigan, E. E. Clive
Rating61%
Maisie (Ann Sothern) hides aboard a West African steamer after she discovers that she cannot pay her hotel tab. She winds up in a hospital upon a rubber plantation, which she must save from a native attack.
, 1h33Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields, Victor Varconi
Rating68%
The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers) who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.
Blackmail (1939)
, 1h21Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, Bobs Watson, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, John Wray
Rating66%
John Ingram is a very successful oil-field firefighter and a family man. All is going so well, he's even bought his own oil well in hope of striking it rich. His greatest fears are realized, however, when a man, William Ramey, from his secret past sees Ingram in a newsreel and shows up looking for a job.