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Hal C. Kern is a Associate Producer and Editor American born on 14 july 1894 at Anaconda (USA)

Hal C. Kern

Hal C. Kern
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Birth name Harold Coleman Kern
Nationality USA
Birth 14 july 1894 at Anaconda (USA)
Death 24 february 1985 (at 90 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Harold « Hal » Coleman Kern est un monteur, assistant de production et producteur américain, né le 14 juillet 1894 à Anaconda (Montana), mort le 24 février 1985 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Il est généralement crédité Hal C. Kern, parfois Hal Kern.

Biography

Comme monteur, Hal C. Kern travaille sur quarante-trois films américains, le premier étant Civilisation de Reginald Barker et Thomas H. Ince (avec Howard C. Hickman et Enid Markey), sorti en 1916. Fait particulier, il contribue à trois réalisations d'Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca (1940, avec Laurence Olivier et Joan Fontaine), La Maison du docteur Edwardes (1945, avec Ingrid Bergman et Gregory Peck) et enfin Le Procès Paradine (avec Gregory Peck et Ann Todd), le dernier film qu'il monte, sorti en 1947.

Parmi ses autres films notables de cette première période, mentionnons L'Aigle noir de Clarence Brown (1925, avec Rudolph Valentino et Vilma Bánky), Une étoile est née de William A. Wellman (version de 1937, avec Janet Gaynor et Fredric March), Autant en emporte le vent de Victor Fleming (1939, avec Vivien Leigh et Clark Gable), ou encore Duel au soleil de King Vidor (1946, avec Jennifer Jones et Gregory Peck).

Dans une seconde période, Hal C. Kern est assistant de production ou producteur associé sur onze films, sortis de 1954 à 1965, dont Le Bouffon du roi de Melvin Frank et Norman Panama (1955, avec Danny Kaye et Glynis Johns ; assistant) et La Péniche du bonheur de Melville Shavelson (1958, avec Cary Grant et Sophia Loren ; associé).

Notons ici qu'il avait déjà eu une première expérience d'assistant de production sur The Bat de Roland West (1926, avec George Beranger et Emily Fitzroy), dont il assurait le montage.

Et relevons qu'il obtient trois nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage, dont un gagné en 1940 pour Autant en emporte le vent.

Best films

Gone with the Wind (1940)
(Supervising Film Editor)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
(Editor)
Rebecca (1940)
(Supervising Film Editor)
Spellbound (1945)
(Editor)
Alibi (1929)
(Editor)
The Dove (1927)
(Editor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Hal C. Kern (44 films)

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Producer

Strange Bedfellows, 1h38
Directed by Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, Terry-Thomas, Edward Judd, Alan Caillou
Roles Associate Producer
Rating61% 3.0973353.0973353.0973353.0973353.097335
A wealthy American (Hudson) and a bohemian Italian woman (Lollobrigida) meet in London, and impulsively marry. Then finding they have virtually nothing in common they separate. Seven years later, just days before the divorce is due to be finalized, they meet again and begin to rekindle the romance.
The Facts of Life, 1h43
Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye, Philip Ober
Roles Associate Producer
Rating62% 3.1433853.1433853.1433853.1433853.143385
As the yearly vacation of six neighbors, the Gilberts, Masons, and Weavers, approaches, Kitty Weaver (Lucille Ball) and Larry Gilbert (Bob Hope) find themselves frustrated with the routine. When both their spouses (Ruth Hussey and Don DeFore) are kept away from the vacation, Kitty and Larry find themselves alone in Acapulco, with the Masons (Philip Ober and Marianne Stewart) bedridden with illness. Forced together, Kitty and Larry fall in love. Once the vacation is over, however, they have difficulties in either abandoning or continuing their romance.
The Five Pennies, 1h57
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Tuesday Weld, Bobby Troup
Roles Production Assistant
Rating70% 3.5444853.5444853.5444853.5444853.544485
Red Nichols (Kaye) is a small-town cornet player who moves to New York City in the 1920s and finds work in a band led by Wil Paradise (Crosby). He meets and marries singer Willia Stutsman, a.k.a. "Bobbie Meredith" (Bel Geddes), and the two form their own Dixieland band called "The Five Pennies" (a play on Nichols' name, since a nickel equals five pennies). As their popularity peaks, their young daughter Dorothy (Susan Gordon) contracts polio and the family leaves the music business, moving to Los Angeles. When Dorothy becomes a teen (Tuesday Weld) she learns of her father's music career and persuades him go on a comeback tour. The tour borders on failure until several notable musicians from Nichols' past appear to save the day.
Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner (1959)
, 1h54
Directed by Melvin Frank
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar, Stubby Kaye, Stella Stevens, Billie Hayes
Roles Producer's Assistant
Rating66% 3.3451253.3451253.3451253.3451253.345125
It's a "typical day" in Dogpatch, U. S. A., a hillbilly town where Abner Yokum lives with his parents. Mammy Yokum insists on giving Abner his daily dose of "Yokumberry tonic," although he is grown. He has a crush on Daisy Mae Scragg (although he resists marrying her) and she on him; Abner's rival for her affections is the World's Dirtiest Rassler, Earthquake McGoon.
Houseboat
Houseboat (1958)
, 1h50
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert, Harry Guardino
Roles Associate Producer
Rating65% 3.297873.297873.297873.297873.29787
For several years, Tom Winters (Grant) has been estranged from his wife and their three children, David (Petersen), Elizabeth (Gibson), and Robert (Herbert). The film begins as he returns home from Europe shortly after his wife's death. The children want to stay in the country with their mother's wealthy family, including her parents and her sister Carolyn (Hyer), but Tom takes them to Washington, D.C., where he works in the US State Department.
That Certain Feeling, 1h43
Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, David Lewis, Pearl Bailey, Jerry Mathers
Roles Producer's Assistant
Rating63% 3.192463.192463.192463.192463.19246
A beautiful, sophisticated New York woman who goes by the name Dunreath Henry seems to have it all. She is not only the private secretary to the wealthy and popular cartoonist Larry Larkin, she is also his fiancee.
The Court Jester, 1h41
Directed by Norman Panama, Bernard McEveety, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick
Roles Producer's Assistant
Rating77% 3.8957253.8957253.8957253.8957253.895725
Set in medieval England, the plot concerns the struggle to restore to the throne the rightful heir, a baby with a distinguishing birthmark, the purple pimpernel on his posterior. Danny Kaye plays Hubert Hawkins, an ex-carnival entertainer who becomes minstrel to the Black Fox, a Robin Hood-type character who leads a band of rebels in the forest in support of the true infant-king.

Editor

The Paradine Case, 2h5
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore
Roles Supervising Film Editor
Rating64% 3.2470353.2470353.2470353.2470353.247035
Maddalena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) is a very beautiful and enigmatic young foreign woman, currently living in London, who is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband, a retired military man, at their grand home in the Lake District. It is not clear whether she is a grateful and devoted wife who has been falsely accused, or whether she is instead a calculating and ruthless femme fatale.
Duel in the Sun, 2h9
Directed by William Dieterle, Otto Brower, David Selznick, Josef von Sternberg, King Vidor, William Cameron Menzies, Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish
Rating66% 3.3462153.3462153.3462153.3462153.346215
Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) is orphaned after her father Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) kills her mother (Tilly Losch), having caught his wife with a lover (Sidney Blackmer). Before Scott Chavez is executed as a punishment for killing his wife, he arranges for his daughter Pearl to live with his second cousin and old sweetheart, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish).
Stage Door Canteen, 2h12
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films
Actors Cheryl Walker, Lon McCallister, Tallulah Bankhead, Kenny Baker, Margaret Early, Ralph Bellamy
Roles Supervising Editor
Rating62% 3.1485453.1485453.1485453.1485453.148545
The storyline of the film follows several women who volunteer for the Canteen and who must adhere to strict rules of conduct, the most important of which is that while their job is to provide friendly companionship to and be dance partners for the (often nervous) men who are soon to be sent into combat, no romantic fraternization is allowed. One volunteer who confesses to only becoming involved in the Canteen in order to be discovered by one of the Hollywood stars in attendance, ultimately finds herself falling in love with one of the soldiers.
Tarzan Triumphs, 1h16
Origin USA
Genres War, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Philip Van Zandt
Roles Supervising Editor
Rating61% 3.0986453.0986453.0986453.0986453.098645
Tarzan and Boy are living on the Great Escarpment, though Jane has returned to England. A small force of German paratroopers lands and takes over the lost city of "Palandrya" as an advance base for the conquest of Sub Saharan Africa. Tarzan continually ignores the requests for help from the helpless and enslaved Palandrians, saying, "Jungle people fight to live, civilized people live to fight."
Gone with the Wind, 4h3
Directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice
Actors Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen
Roles Supervising Film Editor
Rating81% 4.098184.098184.098184.098184.09818
Part 1 On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes—whom she secretly loves—is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.
Rebecca
Rebecca (1940)
, 2h10
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement
Actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper
Roles Supervising Film Editor
Rating80% 4.0486454.0486454.0486454.0486454.048645
A naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine), whose name is never mentioned, is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.
Intermezzo: A Love Story, 1h10
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway, Ann Todd
Roles Supervising Editor
Rating65% 3.298653.298653.298653.298653.29865
Holger Brandt, a famous virtuoso violinist, meets Anita Hoffman, his daughter's piano instructor, during a trip home. Impressed by Anita's talent, he invites her to accompany him on his next tour. They begin touring together and a passionate relationship ensues. Holger's wife Margit asks him for a divorce.