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Roy Del Ruth is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 18 october 1893 at Delaware (USA)
Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 27, 1961) was an American film director.
Les deux frères passent à la réalisation au début des années 1920. Roy de Ruth signe d'abord une série de courts métrages, dont plusieurs mettent en vedette Glen Cavender ou Billy Bevan.
Ses premiers longs métrages sont réalisés en 1925. L'un de ses premiers films parlants est le film musical Le Chant du désert (The Desert Song, 1929), qui est également le premier film en couleurs produit par Warner Bros. Pour ces mêmes studios, Roy Del Ruth réalise en 1931 deux films policiers : Blonde Crazy, avec James Cagney et Le Faucon maltais (The Maltese Falcon), la première adaptation du roman éponyme de Dashiell Hammett, avec Ricardo Cortez dans le rôle de Sam Spade.
Les années 1930 constituent la période faste de sa carrière où il dirige tous les grands acteurs d'Hollywood dans plus d'une trentaine de films, dont Taxi! (1932), de nouveau avec James Cagney, Bureau des personnes disparues (Bureau of Missing Persons, 1933), avec Bette Davis, Entrée des employés (Employées' Entrante, 1933), avec Warren William, Le Retour de Bulldogs Drummond (Bulldogs Drummond Strikes Back, 1934), avec Ronald Colman, Folies-Bergère (Folies Bergère de Paris, 1935), avec Maurice Chevalier, et On the Avenue (1937), avec Dick Powell.
Son dernier film important, Le Fantôme de la rue Morgue (Phantom of the Rue Morgue), est une adaptation de la nouvelle policière Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue) de l'écrivain américain Edgar Allan Poe.
Il fut mariée à l'actrice Winnie Lightner de 1948 jusqu'à sa mort.
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Roy Del Ruth
Birth name Frank Wright Tuttle
Nationality USA
Birth 18 october 1893 at Delaware (USA)
Death 27 april 1961 (at 67 years) at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 18 october 1893 at Delaware (USA)
Death 27 april 1961 (at 67 years) at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Il amorce sa longue carrière à Hollywood en 1915, comme scénariste des films de Mack Sennett, alors que, la même année et dans les mêmes studios, son frère cadet, Hampton Del Ruth, est assistant de production.Les deux frères passent à la réalisation au début des années 1920. Roy de Ruth signe d'abord une série de courts métrages, dont plusieurs mettent en vedette Glen Cavender ou Billy Bevan.
Ses premiers longs métrages sont réalisés en 1925. L'un de ses premiers films parlants est le film musical Le Chant du désert (The Desert Song, 1929), qui est également le premier film en couleurs produit par Warner Bros. Pour ces mêmes studios, Roy Del Ruth réalise en 1931 deux films policiers : Blonde Crazy, avec James Cagney et Le Faucon maltais (The Maltese Falcon), la première adaptation du roman éponyme de Dashiell Hammett, avec Ricardo Cortez dans le rôle de Sam Spade.
Les années 1930 constituent la période faste de sa carrière où il dirige tous les grands acteurs d'Hollywood dans plus d'une trentaine de films, dont Taxi! (1932), de nouveau avec James Cagney, Bureau des personnes disparues (Bureau of Missing Persons, 1933), avec Bette Davis, Entrée des employés (Employées' Entrante, 1933), avec Warren William, Le Retour de Bulldogs Drummond (Bulldogs Drummond Strikes Back, 1934), avec Ronald Colman, Folies-Bergère (Folies Bergère de Paris, 1935), avec Maurice Chevalier, et On the Avenue (1937), avec Dick Powell.
Son dernier film important, Le Fantôme de la rue Morgue (Phantom of the Rue Morgue), est une adaptation de la nouvelle policière Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue) de l'écrivain américain Edgar Allan Poe.
Il fut mariée à l'actrice Winnie Lightner de 1948 jusqu'à sa mort.
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Why Must I Die (1960)
, 1h26Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Terry Moore, Debra Paget, Bert Freed, Sid Melton, Dorothy Lovett, Jackie Joseph
Rating57%
Lois King keeps her troubled past from nightclub owner Kenny Randall, who hires her to sing at his club, The Cockatoo, and has fallen in love with her.
The Alligator People (1959)
, 1h14Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, George Macready, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frieda Inescort, Richard Crane
Rating56%
After she is administered the drug pentothal by psychiatrists Dr. Erik Lorimer (Bruce Bennett) and Dr. Wayne McGregor (Douglas Kennedy), nurse Jane Marvin recalls a series events from her forgotten past when she was known as Joyce Webster (Beverly Garland).
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
, 1h23Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest, Allyn Ann McLerie, Anthony Caruso
Rating59%
In France in the 1870s, a string of strange murders happen in the Rue Morgue. The authorities are baffled, but they do have one man who may have the answers, Prof. Dupin.
Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
, 1h35Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Jane Powell, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Burt Lancaster, Sam Levene, George Givot
Rating60%
While their submarine is docked in New York City, three sailors on liberty invest the money they've earned at sea into a broadway musical and its up and coming star.
About Face (1952)
, 1h34Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Dick Wesson, Dick Wesson, Virginia Gibson, Phyllis Kirk
Rating54%
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
, 1h26Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes Mafia films, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Gangster films
Actors Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Sheldon Leonard, Virginia Gibson, Harry Morgan, Margaret Dumont
Rating61%
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron's plans to crash high society.
Starlift (1951)
, 1h43Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Gene Nelson, Janice Rule
Rating58%
Air Force flyers Rick Williams (Ron Hagerthy) and Mike Nolan (Dick Wesson) attempt to meet Nell Wayne (Janice Rule), a (fictitious) film star performing in a star-studded musical in San Francisco. Rick and Nell were both from the same small town, but had never met. Mike attempts to convince both the staff and cast members at the theater that Rick and Nell are best friends and are extremely close. Ruth Roman takes pity on them and takes them to meet Nell. However, the men first meet with Doris Day and Gordon MacRae, who are rehearsing the song "You're Gonna Lose Your Gal."
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
, 1h35Directed by Roy Del Ruth, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Musical films
Actors Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Jack Smith, Billy Gray, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp
Rating68%
On Moonlight Bay centers on the character Marjorie Winfield, a tomboy played by Doris Day. When the Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana, the daughter, Marjorie, begins a romance with the boy next door, William Sherman, played by Gordon MacRae. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and behave like a proper young lady. Unfortunately Mr. Winfield doesn't approve of William and some of his unconventional ideas about marriage and money, which causes the course of true love to run less smoothly than could be desired. Everything is resolved in time for a happy ending.
The West Point Story (1950)
, 1h47Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Alan Hale Jr.
Rating61%
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby (Cagney) is an unemployed Broadway musical director who agrees to stage the annual 100th Night show at West Point called for producer Harry Eberhart (Roland Winters).
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
, 1h56Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Bert Lahr, Alan Hale, Jerome Cowan
Rating57%
A nobody, comic Kip Cooper does his act on stage in Asbury Park, New Jersey to more snores than roars. He asks out one of the performing Washburn sisters for a date, and finds that Fay's parents once did a vaudeville act that Kip still knows by heart.
Red Light (1949)
, 1h23Directed by Robert Aldrich, Roy Del Ruth, D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, Raymond Burr, Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane
Rating63%
Bookkeeper Nick Cherney is sent to jail for embezzling from Johnny Torno's trucking company. In a California prison, he sees a newsreel showing Johnny welcoming home his brother Jess, a heroic Catholic chaplain just returned from a World War II prisoner-of-war camp. Just before his release four years later (and to give himself a clever alibi), Nick hires Rocky, an inmate who has just finished his sentence, to murder Jess.
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
, 1h46Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, William Frawley, Sam Levene, Robert Ellis
Rating52%
The movie begins in 1906 at the Baltimore Waterfront, where 11-year-old George Herman Ruth, Jr. is taken away by Brother Matthias from George's abusive father to St. Mary's. When George is 18, his incredible baseball talent gets him hired to play for the Baltimore Orioles, and during the interview, he gets his "Babe" nickname. Babe becomes a successful baseball player, and is soon sold off to play for the Boston Red Sox. After a bad game, Babe wonders what went wrong at a bar, until he is helped by Claire Hogsdon that when he pitches he sticks out his tongue. He continues his success, landing a new $100,000 contract; he finds Claire, but she gives him the cold shoulder. During one game, Denny, a sick paralyzed child, watches with his father Babe Ruth play; when Babe says "hiya kid" to the kid, he miraculously "uncripples" and gets up. Babe soon becomes a player for the New York Yankees; during one game, he accidentally hurts a dog, and decides to take the dog and the little kid owner to the hospital. After arguing with the doctors that a dog is the same as a human, the dog is healed; but because Babe left a game to do this, he gets suspended from the Yankees. A depressed Babe Ruth finds himself at a bar, and amidst the crowd giving off negative vibes, he starts a fight and gets arrested. Soon, he decides to play Santa Claus at a Children's Hospital, where he runs into Claire again, visiting her nephew. She tells him that his actions affect the children of America, and Babe decides to keep that in mind. Miller Huggins, the same man who suspended Babe, fights to bring him back to the Yankees as the team has had a bad season. Babe is soon brought back, and the team wins the World Series thanks to him; with this, he and Claire get married, but soon after, Huggins dies from pyaemia. During Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, Babe gets a call from the father of a dying child, and promises him that when he goes off to bat, he will call the third shot and the ball will land at a certain spot; all of this will be for the boy. During the game, Babe does exactly that, and the boy hears the news and starts to get better. Babe retires from the Yankees at the age of 41, and takes a management position with the Boston Braves, even though they want him to play in the games despite his age. During one game, Babe gets stressed out and can't continue playing, and retires from baseball after that game. Sadly, this means he goes off contract by retiring during his time with the Braves, and is fired from anything related to baseball. Later, Babe complains of neck pain, and soon learns that he is dying of throat cancer. The news of this leads fans to send letters telling Babe that they care. The doctors decide to try a treatment on Babe with a chance that he'll survive; as Babe is taken to surgery, the narrator give words of encouragement to baseball fans, crediting Babe Ruth for America's love of the sport.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
, 1h56Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm, Johnny Arthur
Rating75%
Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore), a New York City hobo, makes his home in a boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansion, using the back door, while its owner, multi-millionaire ("the second richest man in the world") Michael J. O'Connor (Charles Ruggles), winters in the South. McKeever winds up taking in homeless ex-G.I. Jim Bullock (Don DeFore), who has been evicted from an apartment building O'Connor is tearing down for a new skyscraper, and runaway 18-year-old Trudy "Smith" (Gale Storm) who is actually O'Connor's daughter. Soon Jim invites war buddies Whitey (Alan Hale, Jr.), Hank (Edward Ryan) and their families to share the vast mansion while they seek permanent homes of their own.
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
, 1h50Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Norman Taurog, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Merrill Pye, George Sidney, Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson
Rating63%
Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell), au paradis, veut faire revivre ses grands spectacles de music-hall. S'ensuit, sortie de son esprit, une série de sketches musicaux ou humoristiques mettant en scène diverses vedettes.
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
, 1h55Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven, Lena Horne, Nancy Walker, Ben Blue
Rating59%