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Ruby R. Levitt is a Set Decoration American born on 12 september 1907

Ruby R. Levitt

Ruby R. Levitt
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Nationality USA
Birth 12 september 1907
Death 18 january 1992 (at 84 years) at Encino, Los Angeles (USA)

Ruby R. Levitt (September 12, 1907 – January 18, 1992) was an American set decorator. She was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Best films

The Sound of Music (1965)
(Set Decoration)
A Star Is Born (1976)
(Set Decoration)
Chinatown (1974)
(Set Decoration)
Pillow Talk (1959)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Bud Westmore
Bud Westmore
(53 films)
Russel Gausman
Russel Gausman
(52 films)
Bill Thomas
Bill Thomas
(16 films)
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Filmography of Ruby R. Levitt (74 films)

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Art

The Jazz Singer, 1h55
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Sidney J. Furie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Théâtre, Musical films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors Laurence Olivier, Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz, Catlin Adams, Franklyn Ajaye, Paul Nicholas
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.9501752.9501752.9501752.9501752.950175
In New York City, Jess Robin (Neil Diamond), whose real name is Yussel Rabinovitch, is an Orthodox Jewish cantor performing at the synagogue of his imperious father Cantor Rabinovitch (Laurence Olivier). Yussel is married to his childhood sweetheart Rivka (Catlin Adams) and has settled down to a life of religious devotion to the teaching of his faith; as a sideline, he writes songs for a black vocal quartet, "The Four Brothers". One night after Maariv, Yussel is recruited by the group to cover for one of the members who is in trouble with the law and must wear blackface and an Afro wig as it is a strictly all-black venue. The group performs "You Baby" and the engagement is a success, but an audience member (Ernie Hudson) notices that Yussel's hands are white, sparking a riot in which the band is arrested. Cantor Rabinovitch goes to the jail to bail them out but finds there is not a Yussel Rabinovitch there, only a Jess Robin. Yussel explains his use of a stage name, but his father informs him that his singing voice is to be used for God's purposes, not his own. Yussel/Jess decides to relent and do whatever his father wants, at least for now.
The One and Only, 1h37
Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Films about television
Actors Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Harold Gould, Hervé Villechaize
Roles Set Decoration
Rating58% 2.9022052.9022052.9022052.9022052.902205
At a midwestern college, student Mary Crawford has the combined good and bad fortune to meet Andy Schmidt, a remarkably conceited young man who is convinced that he is tremendously talented and has every intention of becoming a star. Andy is so obnoxious, he wants Mary to marry him fast before he becomes too famous to give her a second look. She can't resist him, try as she might. Mary takes her new boyfriend home to Columbus, Ohio, to meet her strait-laced parents. Andy proceeds to annoy them in every possible way, hugging them, calling them "Tom and Mom," interrupting dinner to do a series of impressions, thoroughly ruining the visit.
Child of Glass, 1h33
Directed by John Erman
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Barbara Barrie, Biff McGuire, Anthony Zerbe, Nina Foch, Katy Kurtzman, Olivia Barash
Roles Set Decoration
Rating75% 3.799793.799793.799793.799793.79979
Alexander Armsworth and his family move into a spooky old Louisiana mansion that was once the home of a notorious river pirate. Before long, Alexander catches sight of a mysterious little girl and her dog, both of whom turn out to be ghosts. The little girl ghost tells Alexander that her name is Inez Dumaine, a Creole girl who lived in the 19th century, and appeals to him for help in finding a child of glass.
New York, New York, 2h35
Directed by Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus, Mary Kay Place, Frank Sivero
Roles Set Decoration
Rating65% 3.299773.299773.299773.299773.29977
The story opens on V-J Day in 1945. A massive celebration in a New York City nightclub is underway, music provided by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. While there, selfish and smooth-talking saxophone player Jimmy Doyle, meets small-time singer Francine Evans, who, although lonely, still wants nothing to do with Jimmy, who keeps pestering her for her phone number.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, 2h15
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about domestic violence, Musical films
Actors Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere, LeVar Burton
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.3470253.3470253.3470253.3470253.347025
The film traces the sexual awakening of Theresa Dunn, a young teacher of Irish American descent who is searching for excitement outside her ordered life, in which she teaches deaf children. Suffering from severe body image issues following a childhood surgery that left a large scar on her back, Theresa finds first love with her older, married university professor, Martin, who ends the affair just before her graduation. The affair leaves Theresa feeling used, and she begins daydreaming about being reunited with her professor.
A Star Is Born, 2h20
Directed by Frank Pierson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Barbra Streisand, Gary Busey, Paul Mazursky, Robert Englund, Joanne Linville
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.0490253.0490253.0490253.0490253.049025
Esther Hoffman, an aspiring singer/songwriter, meets John Norman Howard, a famous, successful and self-destructive singer/songwriter rock star, whom, after a series of coincidental meetings, she finally starts dating. Believing in her talent, John gives her a helping hand and her career begins to eclipse his.
Harry and Walter Go to New York, 1h55
Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Buddy films, Heist films
Actors James Caan, Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Michael Caine, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren
Roles Set Decoration
Rating54% 2.704992.704992.704992.704992.70499
Harry Dighby (Caan) and Walter Hill (Gould) are struggling vaudevillians who are sent to jail when Dighby is caught robbing audience members. They become roommates to a cultured, wealthy, and charming bank robber named Adam Worth (Caine). Worth plans to rob the Lowell Bank and Trust, both to avenge himself on the bank manager who had arranged his capture and because his ego cannot resist the temptation of robbing a bank reputed to be perfectly secure. Though in jail, he procures detailed diagrams of the bank's security systems.
Let's Do It Again, 1h50
Directed by Sidney Poitier
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Buddy films
Actors Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Ossie Davis, Jimmie Walker
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.348713.348713.348713.348713.34871
Set in Atlanta, it follows Clyde Williams (Poitier) and Billy Foster (Cosby) as a pair of blue-collar workers who are trying to raise funds for the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. They decide to rig a boxing match in New Orleans. They use hypnotism to convince underdog boxer Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) that he is a highly skilled prize fighter. He fights and defeats the champion, 40th Street Black (Rodolphus Lee Hayden). Williams and Foster clean up after betting Farnsworth. The pair return home, and all is fine until the gangsters who lost money betting on the other guy figure out the scam and come to Atlanta, to get the pair to do it again...or be killed.
Once Is Not Enough, 2h1
Directed by Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri, Gary Conway
Roles Set Decoration
Rating46% 2.3155552.3155552.3155552.3155552.315555
In the film version, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a middle-aged motion-picture producer whose career has fallen on hard times. Try as he might, Mike no longer can get a new Hollywood project made.
Chinatown
Chinatown (1974)
, 2h11
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Diane Ladd
Roles Set Decoration
Rating80% 4.048954.048954.048954.048954.04895
A woman identifying herself as Evelyn Mulwray (Ladd) hires private investigator J. J. "Jake" Gittes (Nicholson) to carry out surveillance on her husband, Hollis I. Mulwray (Zwerling), chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Gittes tails him, hears him publicly oppose the creation of a new reservoir, and shoots photographs of him with a young woman (Palmer), which are published on the front page of the following day's paper. Upon his return to his office, Gittes is confronted by a beautiful woman who, after establishing that the two of them have never met, irately informs him she is the real Evelyn Mulwray (Dunaway) and that he can expect a lawsuit.
Freebie and the Bean, 1h53
Directed by Richard Rush
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors James Caan, Alan Arkin, Loretta Swit, Jack Kruschen, Mike Kellin, Alex Rocco
Roles Set Decoration
Rating65% 3.295063.295063.295063.295063.29506
Freebie and Bean are a pair of maverick detectives with the SFPD Intelligence Squad. The volatile gratuity-seeking Freebie is trying to get promoted to the vice squad to garner perks for his retirement while the neurotic and fastidious Bean has ambitions to make lieutenant. Against a backdrop of Super Bowl weekend in San Francisco, the partners are trying to conclude a 14-month investigation, digging through garbage to gather evidence against well-connected racketeer Red Meyers, when they discover that a hit man from Detroit is after Meyers as well. After rejecting their pretext arrest of Meyers to protect him, the district attorney orders them to keep him alive until Monday.
Genesis II
Genesis II (1973)
, 1h14
Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films set in the future
Actors Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodriguez, Harvey Jason, Titos Vandis
Roles Set Decoration
Rating58% 2.949762.949762.949762.949762.94976
In 1979, NASA scientist Dylan Hunt (Alex Cord) is working on "Project Ganymede", a suspended animation system for astronauts on long-duration space flights. As chief of the project he volunteers for the first multi-day test. He places himself in chemically induced hibernation deep inside Carlsbad Caverns; while there, his lab is buried in an earthquake. The monitoring equipment is damaged and fails to awake him at the intended end of the test. He awakens instead in 2133, emerging into a chaotic post-apocalyptic world. An event called "The Great Conflict" (a third and final World War) destroyed the civilization of Hunt's time. Various new civilizations have emerged in a struggle for control of available resources. Those with the greatest military might and the will to use it have the greatest advantage.
The Other
The Other (1972)
, 1h48
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Ghost films, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, John Ritter, Victor French, Lou Frizzell, Portia Nelson
Roles Set Decoration
Rating67% 3.3964553.3964553.3964553.3964553.396455
It's a seemingly idyllic summer in 1935, and identical twins Niles and Holland Perry play around the bucolic family farm. Holland is an amoral mischief maker, though sympathetic Niles is often caught in their shenanigans. Niles carries a Prince Albert tobacco tin with him containing several secret trinkets, including something mysteriously wrapped in blue wax paper, and the Perry family ring, which had been handed down from their grandfather, through their father, to Holland, the older twin. Niles asks Holland to confirm that the ring is now indeed his. "Cripes yes, I gave it to you," is the response. Niles asks Holland to take the ring and the wrapped object back, but Holland insists "I gave them to you, they're yours now." Their obnoxious cousin Russell, whom the boys call "Piggy Lookadoo" behind his back, finds them in the apple cellar below the barn--a place they are not supposed to play--and happens to see the contents of the tobacco tin, including the ring. Russell cryptically states that the ring was supposed to be buried, and promises to "tell on" Niles to his father, Niles' Uncle George. Uncle George padlocks the door to the apple cellar to keep the kids from playing there, but there is another stairway inside the barn, giving them access to the cellar.
The Andromeda Strain, 2h11
Directed by Robert Wise, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell
Roles Set Decoration
Rating71% 3.59813.59813.59813.59813.5981
Two crewmembers of the U.S. government's "Project Scoop" investigate the town of Piedmont, New Mexico, to retrieve the Scoop 7 satellite. They find townspeople dead in the streets and die themselves while reporting back to Scoop Mission Control. Suspecting the satellite may have brought back an extraterrestrial pathogen, Scoop Mission Control activates an elite scientific team it had previously recruited for just this type of emergency.