Irving Rapper

Irving Rapper
Born(1898-01-16)16 January 1898
London, England, UK
Died20 December 1999(1999-12-20) (aged 101)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationsFilm director, dialogue director
Years active1929–1978

Irving Rapper (16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999) was a British-born American film director.[1]

Biography

Born to a Jewish family[2] in London, Rapper emigrated to the United States and became an actor and a stage director[1] on Broadway while studying at New York University. In 1936, he went to Hollywood, where he was hired by Warner Bros. as an assistant director and dialogue coach. He proved invaluable in translating and mediating for non-native English-speaking directors. He made his directing debut with the 1941 film Shining Victory, in which his friend Bette Davis appeared as a show of support for him. He would go on to direct her in four more films, Now, Voyager (1942) - selected, in 2007, for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, The Corn Is Green (1945), Deception (1946), and Another Man's Poison (1952).

Rapper's film One Foot in Heaven (1941) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Perhaps his best film in a studio other than Warner Bros. was The Brave One (1956) about a Mexican boy who must rescue his bull from a brutal fight against a top matador, which earned the then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an Oscar for his original screenplay, despite being a box office failure. Additional credits include The Voice of the Turtle (1947),[3] The Glass Menagerie (1950), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), and The Miracle, a 1959 remake of the 1912 hand-coloured, black-and-white film The Miracle.

Biopics directed by Rapper include: The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), Rhapsody in Blue (1945),[1] Pontius Pilate (co-director, 1962), The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970), and his last film, Born Again (1978), about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson.[4]

Death

Rapper died on 20 December 1999 at the age of 101 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, where he had been a resident for four years.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Irving Rapper". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015.
  2. ^ Jewish Post (Indianapolis): "Our Film Folks of Hollywood" by Leon Gutterman, Such a genius is slight, modest, dark-eyed Director Irving Kapper, the Jewish 'wonder man' at Warner Bros. studio." (12 October 1945), newspapers.library.in.gov. Accessed 29 March 2022.
  3. ^ T.M.P. (26 December 1947). "The Voice of the Turtle (1947) 'Voice Turtle' Becomes Movie". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  4. ^ Scobie, William (4 December 1978). Written at Hollywood. "Hollywood is Born Again". Times Colonist. Victoria, British Columbia. p. 5. Retrieved 13 February 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Lyman, Rick (30 December 1999). "Irving Rapper, 101, Film Director, Dies". The New York Times. p. B9.
  6. ^ "'Now, Voyager' Film Director Irving Rapper Dies at 101". Los Angeles Times. 29 December 1999. Retrieved 13 February 2025.

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