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Maurice Rapf is a Scriptwriter American born on 19 may 1914 at New York City (USA)

Maurice Rapf

Maurice Rapf
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Nationality USA
Birth 19 may 1914 at New York City (USA)
Death 15 april 2003 (at 88 years) at Hanover (German)

Maurice Rapf (May 19, 1914 – April 15, 2003) was a Jewish American screenwriter and professor of film studies. His work includes the screenplays for Song of the South, Winter Carnival, and So Dear to My Heart. He was a co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild. He was blacklisted in 1947 due to his association with the Communist Party. He later taught at Dartmouth College.

Best films

Cinderella
Cinderella
(1950)
(Story) Song of the South
Song of the South
(1946)
(Scriptwriter)

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William Peed
William Peed
(3 films)
Paul J. Smith
Paul J. Smith
(3 films)
Perce Pearce
Perce Pearce
(3 films)
Marc Davis
Marc Davis
(3 films)
Ken Anderson
Ken Anderson
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Maurice Rapf (14 films)

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Scriptwriter

Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee (2005)
, 1h37
Directed by Kirk Jones (réalisateur britannique)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Kelly Macdonald, Derek Jacobi, Celia Imrie, Imelda Staunton
Rating66% 3.3016053.3016053.3016053.3016053.301605
In 19th century England, widowed undertaker Cedric Brown has seven unruly children. He is clumsy, loves his children but spends little time with them and cannot handle them. The children have had a series of nannies, which they systematically drive out by their bad behaviour. They also terrorise the cook, Mrs Blatherwick.
Gnomes
Gnomes (1980)
, 45minutes
Directed by Jack Zander
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Kjell Bergqvist, Corinne Orr, Joe Silver, Lee Richardson, Bob McFadden, Rex Everhart
Roles Writer
Rating74% 3.7301453.7301453.7301453.7301453.730145
This made for TV movie is all about a family of forest gnomes who live together in their home under a tree. The family consists of a father, mother, grandfather, older son Tor, and a set of young twins. The movie mainly concerns itself with Tor, his upcoming marriage to his fiancee Lisa, and his family's preparations for the wedding. The gnome family busies itself with decorating and preparing for the festivities, meanwhile a family of trolls plan on ruining the wedding for the gnomes. The troll family consists of a dumb troll father, a bossy mother troll who's fond of wearing a snake in her hair and smoking, her two bumbling older sons, and a young troll child affectionately called "Runt".
Father Brown
Father Brown (1954)
, 1h31
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Sid James
Rating66% 3.344343.344343.344343.344343.34434
Father Brown tries to transport an historically important cross to Rome engaging in battles of wits and faith with a thief and pursuing policeman. The thief, named Flambeau (Finch), is a master of disguise and is elusive, as Father Brown pursues him and tries to convince him to abandon his criminal career.
Cinderella
Cinderella (1950)
, 1h14
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about the labor movement, Les fées, Musical films, Political films, Children's films, Films about marriage, Films about royalty
Actors Ilene Megan Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, Jimmy MacDonald, Luis van Rooten
Roles Story
Rating72% 3.6452253.6452253.6452253.6452253.645225
Cinderella is the beloved child of a widowed aristocrat. Anxious for his daughter to have a mother's love, he remarries to Lady Tremaine, with two daughters: Drizella and Anastasia. After her father dies unexpectedly, Lady Tremaine is revealed to be a cruel and selfish woman, and Cinderella is abused and mistreated by her stepfamily, who take over the estate and ultimately reduce her to being a scullery maid in her own home. Despite this, Cinderella grows into a kind and gentle young woman, befriending the animals in the barn and the mice and birds who live around the chateau.
So Dear to My Heart
So Dear to My Heart (1948)
, 1h19
Directed by Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Beulah Bondi, Burl Ives, Harry Carey, John Beal
Roles Adaptation
Rating66% 3.344753.344753.344753.344753.34475
Set in Indiana in 1903, the film tells the tale of Jeremiah Kincaid (Bobby Driscoll) and his determination to raise a black-wool lamb that had been rejected by its mother. Jeremiah names the lamb Danny for the famed race horse, Dan Patch (who is also portrayed in the film). Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving—yet tough—grandmother Granny (Beulah Bondi). Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram (Burl Ives), is the boy's steady ally. Inspired by the animated figures and stories, the boy perseveres.
Song of the South
Song of the South (1946)
, 1h34
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors James Baskett, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Ruth Warrick, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel
Rating68% 3.445343.445343.445343.445343.44534
Seven-year-old Johnny is excited about what he believes to be a vacation at his grandmother's Georgia plantation with his parents, John Sr. and Sally. When they arrive at the plantation, he discovers that his parents will be living apart for a while, and he is to live in the country with his mother and grandmother while his father returns to Atlanta to continue his controversial editorship in the city's newspaper. Johnny, distraught because his father has never left him or his mother before, leaves that night under cover of darkness and sets off for Atlanta with only a bindle. As Johnny sneaks away from the plantation, he is attracted by the voice of Uncle Remus telling tales "in his old-timey way" of a character named Br'er Rabbit. Curious, Johnny hides behind a nearby tree to spy on the group of people sitting around the fire. By this time, word has gotten out that Johnny is gone and some plantation residents, who are sent out to find him, ask if Uncle Remus has seen the boy. Uncle Remus replies that he's with him. Shortly afterwards, he catches up with Johnny, who sits crying on a nearby log. He befriends the young boy and offers him some food for the journey, taking him back to his cabin.
Call of the Canyon
Call of the Canyon (1942)
, 1h11
Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ruth Terry, Thurston Hall, Dorothea Kent, Marc Lawrence
Roles Story
Rating64% 3.2293753.2293753.2293753.2293753.229375
Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his fellow ranchers in Whippasaw are outraged to learn that the purchasing agent for the Grantley B. Johnson Packing Co., Thomas McCoy (Edmund MacDonald), is only offering them $65 per head of cattle. Unknown to the ranchers, McCoy is a gambler in debt to a bookie who sent his henchmen Horace Dunston and the Pigeon to ensure that McCoy pays up. McCoy plans to raise the money by pocketing the difference between what he is offering the ranchers and what the packing company sent him. Gene encourages the ranchers to stick together and wait while he travels to the city to speak directly with the packing company owner, Grantley B. Johnson (Thurston Hall).
Island in the Sky
Island in the Sky (1938)
, 1h8
Directed by Herbert I. Leeds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Gloria Stuart, Joseph Kenneth Shovlin, Paul Kelly, Robert Kellard, June Storey, Paul Hurst
Rating61% 3.0515453.0515453.0515453.0515453.051545
Julie Hayes (Gloria Stuart) is betrothed to Michael Fraser (Michael Whalen), assistant district attorney. Peter Vincent (Robert Kellard) is falsely convicted of murder of his father Stephen Vincent and is condemned to death, Julie postpones her wedding to prove him innocent. She enlists the help of Johnny Doyle (Paul Kelly a former gangster and eventually succeeds in saving the innocent man's life.
They Gave Him a Gun
They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
, 1h34
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Edgar Dearing, Mary Treen, Charles Trowbridge
Rating62% 3.1460853.1460853.1460853.1460853.146085
The movie begins in World War I when a young man named Jimmy (Franchot Tone) unexpectedly becomes a hero by killing all the Germans in a machine gun nest. But he is then severely wounded and spends time in a hospital being cared for by a nurse, Rose (Gladys George), with whom he falls in love. But she is really in love with Jimmy’s buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy), a carnival barker. However, when Fred doesn't return from the battlefield, the two think he’s been killed (when he was merely captured) and so they make wedding plans. Then when Fred returns he decides to support Jimmy and Rose marrying, even though it breaks his heart. After the war Fred meets up with Jimmy again and discovers that Jimmy is a racketeer who uses his battle skills to commit murder. So he tells Rose, who had no idea. She then reports her husband to the police so he will go to prison and be reformed. But Jimmy breaks out of prison and tries to take Rose on the lam with him. At this point Fred intervenes. Jimmy, feeling undeserving, commits suicide by police.