Known for Art
Born
November 9, 1904
Died
March 2, 1959 (age 54)
Filmography
51 films


Ben-Hur
1959 · 3h 32m
country: United States
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.


Ask Any Girl
1959 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.


North by Northwest
1959 · 2h 17m
country: United States
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.


The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.


The Mating Game
1959 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins has never filed an income tax return. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.


Count Your Blessings
1959 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.


Watusi
1959 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon's mines. He dons a special medallion given by his father from the Watusi tribe, who guard the mines. Along the way, Harry and his friend Rick meet and take with them Erica, daughter of a missionary killed by a local tribe.


Green Mansions
1959 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.


Some Came Running
1958 · 2h 17m
country: United States
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.


Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.


The Tunnel of Love
1958 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate.


Party Girl
1958 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.


Torpedo Run
1958 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.


The Badlanders
1958 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · 1h 48m
country: United States
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.


High School Confidential!
1958 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.


The High Cost of Loving
1958 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.


Gigi
1958 · 1h 55m
country: United States
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.


The Sheepman
1958 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.


Handle with Care
1958 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A law student working on a class project discovers a real-life crime.


Saddle the Wind
1958 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.


Raintree County
1957 · 3h 8m
country: United States
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.


Don't Go Near the Water
1957 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.


Until They Sail
1957 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.


Les Girls
1957 · 1h 54m
country: United States
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.


House of Numbers
1957 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help the other escape from prison.


Man on Fire
1957 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Bitter over their divorce, a wealthy businessman prevents his ex-wife from seeing their child. She then takes him to custody court and a judge tries to determine what will be best for the child.


Gun Glory
1957 · 1h 29m
country: United States
An ex-gunslinger returns home; shunned by townsfolk he is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman from driving his herd through their town.


Silk Stockings
1957 · 1h 57m
country: United States
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).


The Seventh Sin
1957 · 1h 34m
country: United States
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public divorce.


Designing Woman
1957 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.


This Could Be the Night
1957 · 1h 43m
country: United States
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.


Something of Value
1957 · 1h 53m
country: United States
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.


Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957 · 1h 54m
country: United States
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.


The Wings of Eagles
1957 · 1h 50m
country: United States
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.


Jailhouse Rock
1957 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Young convict Vince Everett, serving time for manslaughter, discovers his musical talent in prison and becomes a rock and roll star after his release, navigating fame and relationships.


The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957 · 2h 3m
country: United States
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.


The Great American Pastime
1956 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son on the team causes problems with his wife.


Tea and Sympathy
1956 · 2h 2m
country: United States
A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.


The Power and the Prize
1956 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.


Quo Vadis
1951 · 2h 54m
country: United States
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.


Marie Antoinette
1938 · 2h 29m
country: United States
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.


Conquest
1937 · 1h 53m
country: United States
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.


Mad Love
1935 · 1h 8m
country: United States
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.


Shadow of Doubt
1935 · 1h 14m
country: United States
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.