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Jack Cummings is a Director and Producer American born on 16 february 1905

Jack Cummings

Jack Cummings
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 february 1905
Death 28 april 1989 (at 84 years)

Jack Cummings est un producteur et réalisateur américain d'origine canadienne, né au Nouveau-Brunswick (Canada) le 16 février 1900, mort à Los Angeles (Californie) le 28 avril 1989.

Biography

Neveu de Louis B. Mayer, patron de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, il y débute vers la fin des années 1920 et y fera toute sa carrière. S'il réalise quelques courts métrages dans les années 1930, il sera surtout producteur à partir de 1935, principalement de films musicaux, régulièrement jusqu'en 1964, avant un ultime film produit en 1976.

Best films

Bathing Beauty (1944)
(Producer)
Neptune's Daughter (1949)
(Producer)
Fiesta (1947)
(Producer)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
(Producer)
Interrupted Melody (1955)
(Producer)

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(27 films)
Warren Newcombe
Warren Newcombe
(11 films)
Helen Rose
Helen Rose
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jack Cummings (44 films)

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Director

Beer and Pretzels
Directed by Jack Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Buddy films
Actors Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Edward Brophy, Fred Malatesta
Rating58% 2.903952.903952.903952.903952.90395
Ted Healy and his Stooges are entertainers. But because Healy is much more interested in women than he is in performing, they are thrown out of the Happy Hour Theatre. Unable to keep a job anywhere else, they are reduced to waiting tables at a high-class restaurant. This, of course, ends up being a disaster as the restaurant is thrown into chaos because of them. So, yet again, they are thrown back out on to the streets.
Hello Pop
Hello Pop (1933)

Directed by Jack Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Buddy films
Actors Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy
Rating63% 3.1844553.1844553.1844553.1844553.184455
A theater producer (Healy) is trying to stage an elaborate musical revue. His efforts are constantly interrupted by demanding back stage personalities: a flaky musician (Henry Armetta), a woman who keeps try to ask him something (Bonnie Bonnell), and his raucous sons (the Stooges in children's costumes).
Nertsery Rhymes
Directed by Jack Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Rating56% 2.807642.807642.807642.807642.80764
The Stooges are children and Ted Healy is the father. Unable to sleep, the Stooges ask Healy to tell them a bedtime story. He proceeds to tell them of the "Ride of Paul Revere" as well as the "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe". Briefly veering away from the slapstick, there are two musical interludes pertaining to the stories.

Producer

Viva Las Vegas, 1h25
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair, Jack Carter
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.14913.14913.14913.14913.1491
Lucky Jackson (Elvis) goes to Las Vegas, Nevada to participate in the city's first annual Grand Prix Race. However, his race car, an Elva Mk. VI, is in need of a new motor (engine) in order to compete in the event.
The Second Time Around, 1h39
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse, Thelma Ritter, Isobel Elsom
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.2451553.2451553.2451553.2451553.245155
Lu Rogers, recently widowed, leaves her children in New York with her mother-in-law in 1911 and travels west to take a job she's been offered. Upon arriving in Arizona, the job falls through, so farmer Aggie Gates tries her out as a hired hand.
Bachelor Flat, 1h31
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm, Howard McNear, Stephen Bekassy
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.9021352.9021352.9021352.9021352.902135
A charming British anthropology Professor Bruce Patterson (Terry-Thomas) has to live with Helen Bushmill (Celeste Holm), his fiancée. Helen is away traveling, and has failed to tell him that she has a seventeen-year-old daughter Libby (Tuesday Weld), who shows up at her mother's home unaware that Helen is engaged. Meanwhile he has to resist the advances of the neighbourhood ladies who barge in unexpectedly. At the same time, Patterson must deal with the continual invasions of his cynical neighbor, and law student, Mike (Richard Beymer), who soon develops a crush on Libby. Intertwined in the story is Mike's persistent dachshund, determined to bury the professor's prize possession of a rare dinosaur bone.
Can-Can
Can-Can (1960)
, 2h11
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse, Marcel Dalio
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.150493.150493.150493.150493.15049
À Paris, en 1896, Simone Pistache, directrice et meneuse de revues du cabaret Bal du Paradis à Montmartre, brave la censure en présentant le cancan, une danse qu’une ligue de dames vertueuses a déclarée « obscène et lascive » (sic) bien que ces dames ne l’aient jamais vue. François Durnais, avocat et amant de Simone, est censé avoir négocié un accord avec la police, mais celle-ci fait irruption à chaque tentative de représentation. Lors du procès, le président du tribunal, Paul Barrière (un ami de François), apprend que c’est l’un des juges de sa cour qui a validé la plainte : le jeune et nouveau Philippe Forestier. Un soir, lorsque ce dernier se rend incognito au Bal du Paradis pour constater le délit, il fait la connaissance de Simone et en tombe amoureux. Une rivalité s’érige entre Durnais et Forestier. Simone est très liée à Durnais, mais contrariée, car ce dernier fait du refus du mariage une question de principe. Forestier propose plusieurs rendez-vous à Simone, mais elle temporise jusqu’à ce qu’il lui demande de l’épouser. Simone accepte, stupéfaite de se voir spontanément offrir ce que Durnais lui a toujours refusé. Durnais, avec la complicité de Barrière, cherche alors un plan pour rompre leurs fiançailles. Invité à la réception donnée sur une péniche par Forestier pour présenter sa future épouse à son distingué entourage, Durnais profite de l’appréhension de Simone d’être confrontée à la gent bourgeoise pour lui faire exagérément boire du champagne avant de la pousser à exécuter un numéro de cabaret qui scandalise l’assistance. Simone réalise que sa prestation a compromis son mariage et s’enfuit en regagnant les quais à la nage. Elle imagine un stratagème pour se venger de Durnais : elle lui demande de lui prêter de l’argent en contrepartie de quoi elle lui fait signer un document stipulant qu’il restera propriétaire du Bal du Paradis tant que l’argent ne lui sera pas remboursé. Quand le cancan est représenté au cabaret, la police fait une descente et arrête son propriétaire, Durnais en l’occurrence. Celui-ci passe au tribunal, et Simone, estimant que sa vengeance va trop loin, refuse de l’enfoncer davantage, mais ne veut plus avoir affaire à lui. Durnais a finalement recours à un subterfuge pour reconquérir Simone et lui faire enfin sa demande en mariage.
The Blue Angel, 1h47
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Curd Jürgens, Stella Stevens, May Britt, Theodore Bikel, John Banner, Ludwig Stössel
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.0939253.0939253.0939253.0939253.093925
Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens) is shocked to discover a number of his students have been frequenting a nightspot called the Blue Angel, where a scandalous entertainer named Lola (May Britt) performs. Rath attends the show one night in order to catch some of his boys in this den of wickedness, but he is soon drawn into Lola's sensual spell, and in time becomes involved in an obsessive romance with her that costs him his job, his savings and his dignity.
The Teahouse of the August Moon, 1h39
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Films based on plays
Actors Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyō, Paul Ford, Eddie Albert, Jun Negami
Roles Producer
Rating65% 3.296343.296343.296343.296343.29634
Misfit Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford) is sent to Americanize the village of Tobiki on Okinawa, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands. His commanding officer, Colonel Wainwright Purdy III (Paul Ford), assigns him a wily local, Sakini (Marlon Brando), to act as interpreter.
Interrupted Melody, 1h46
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Leeds, Walter Baldwin
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.342823.342823.342823.342823.34282
The story traces Marjorie's (Eleanor Parker) long, hard road to the top, her success on two continents, and her turbulent marriage to American doctor Thomas King (Glenn Ford). While touring South America in 1941, Lawrence is stricken with polio, which not only abruptly ends her career but briefly robs her of the will to live.
Many Rivers to Cross, 1h34
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, James Arness
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.099263.099263.099263.099263.09926
Kentucky, the late 1700s: A traveling preacher's coming to town, but Miles Henderson is upset because Cissie Crawford seems reluctant to marry him. She seems more interested in a handsome trapper who's just arrived in the territory, Bushrod Gentry.
The Last Time I Saw Paris, 1h56
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, George Dolenz
Roles Producer
Rating60% 3.049473.049473.049473.049473.04947
As World War II ends in Europe, Stars and Stripes journalist Charles Wills (Van Johnson) is on the streets of Paris, covering the celebrations. He is suddenly grabbed by a beautiful woman, who kisses him and disappears. Charles follows the crowd to Café Dhingo and meets another pretty woman named Marion Elliswirth (Donna Reed). The mutual attraction is instant and she invites him to join her father's celebration of the end of the war in Europe. Charles, Marion and her persistent French suitor Claude Matine (George Dolenz) arrive at the Elliswirth household, and we find that the woman who had kissed Charles is Marion's younger sister Helen (Elizabeth Taylor).