Direction: Irving Rapper
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Irving Rapper. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 21
Now, Voyager
1942 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Bette Davis · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · Gladys Cooper
Synopsis Charlotte Vale suffers under the domination of her Boston matron mother until Dr. Jaquith gets her to visit his sanitarium where she is transformed from frump to elegant, independent lady. When she goes off on a South American cruise she...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
The Corn Is Green
1945 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Bette Davis · Nigel Bruce · Rhys Williams · Rosalind Ivan
Synopsis Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent...
6.6
159 votes
6.6
159 votes
Deception
1946 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Bette Davis · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · John Abbott
Synopsis Music teacher Christine Radcliffe thought Karel Novak to have been killed in the war. She loves him more than ever and insists they marry. At their reception her benefactor and former lover offers Karel the chance to solo his new...
6.6
309 votes
6.6
309 votes
Another Man's Poison
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Bette Davis · Gary Merrill · Emlyn Williams · Anthony Steel
Synopsis Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor: George Bates, who claims to be the partner in crime...
6.6
200 votes
6.6
200 votes
Forever Female
1953 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Ginger Rogers · William Holden · Paul Douglas · Pat Crowley
Synopsis Playwright Stanley Krown has a terrific new play. It's got a great part for reigning Broadway star Beatrice Page, and a young actress named Sally Carver will do just about anything to get the ingénue lead. The problem is that...
6.3
39 votes
6.3
39 votes
Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Robert Alda · Joan Leslie · Alexis Smith · Charles Coburn
Synopsis Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof socialite Christine Gilbert
6.3
70 votes
6.3
70 votes
The Glass Menagerie
1950 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Jane Wyman · Kirk Douglas · Gertrude Lawrence · Arthur Kennedy
Synopsis This first movie version of the Tennessee Williams play about a faded, aging Southern belle Amanda Wingfield (Gertrude Lawrence), her shy, crippled daughter Laura (Jane Wyman) and her "selfish dreamer" of a son Tom (Arthur Kennedy) more or less sticks...
6.3
56 votes
6.3
56 votes
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Fredric March · Alexis Smith · Donald Crisp · Alan Hale
Synopsis Warner Brothers had high hopes with this lively film biography of America's most beloved author/humorist, casting Academy Award winner Fredric March in the lead. With a first-rate supporting cast (including Alexis Smith, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, John Carradine as Bret...
6.3
29 votes
6.3
29 votes
Bad for Each Other
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Charlton Heston · Lizabeth Scott · Dianne Foster · Mildred Dunnock
Synopsis A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between setting up a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
6.2
46 votes
6.2
46 votes
The Brave One
1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Michel Ray · Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. · Elsa Cárdenas · Carlos Navarro
Synopsis The Brave One is a bull named Gitano (or Gypsy). A Mexican boy Michael Ray "adopts" Gitano after saving the animal's life during a storm. The friendship between bull and boy is threatened when Gitano's legal owners claim the animal...
6.2
145 votes
6.2
145 votes
Marjorie Morningstar
1958 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Gene Kelly · Natalie Wood · Claire Trevor · Ed Wynn
Synopsis While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew (born 'Ehrman'), but has fallen...
6.0
69 votes
6.0
69 votes
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Fredric March · Martha Scott · Beulah Bondi · Gene Lockhart
Synopsis Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
6.0
32 votes
6.0
32 votes
Pontius Pilate
1962 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Gian Paolo Callegari · Irving Rapper
Cast Jean Marais · Jeanne Crain · Basil Rathbone · Leticia Roman
5.4
122 votes
5.4
122 votes
The Miracle
1959 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Carroll Baker · Roger Moore · Walter Slezak · Vittorio Gassman
Synopsis During the Napoleonic era, in Spain, a young postulant falls in love with a handsome British soldier who is recovering with others of his regiment after being wounded. Before leaving, he asks her to leave the convent and marry him....
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Anna Lucasta
1949 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Paulette Goddard · William Bishop · Oskar Homolka · John Ireland
Synopsis A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.
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The Christine Jorgensen Story
1970 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast John Hansen · Joan Tompkins · Quinn K. Redeker · John Himes
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The Gay Sisters
1942 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Donald Crisp
Synopsis Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna Gaylord are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona (Barbara Stanwyck) marries her antagonist, Charles Barclay (George Brent), in order...
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Born Again
1978 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Dean Jones · Anne Francis · Jay Robinson · Dana Andrews
Synopsis Charles Colson was involved in the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the administration of former President Richard Nixon. Colson was sentenced to prison for the crimes he committed in the name of "national security", and while in prison he...
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Strange Intruder
1956 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Edmund Purdom · Ida Lupino · Mimi Gibson · Eric Anderson
Synopsis During the Korean War, a soldier promises his dying buddy that he'll look after the man's family when he gets home. He winds up getting more than he bargained for.
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The Voice of the Turtle
1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Ronald Reagan · Eleanor Parker · Eve Arden · Wayne Morris
Synopsis Budding actress Sally Middleton agrees to a date with Bill Page, a soldier on a weekend pass, after he's stood up by her worldly friend, Olive. When Bill has a problem getting a hotel room, he ends up spending the...
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