List of the best Irving Rapper movies: Now, Voyager(1942), The Corn Is Green(1945), The Glass Menagerie(1950), Deception(1946), The Adventures of Mark Twain(1944), Rhapsody in Blue(1945), Another Man's Poison(1951), One Foot in Heaven(1941), The Gay Sisters(1942), Shining Victory(1941), The Brave One(1956), Marjorie Morningstar(1958) ... ...
Drama
USA
1942
117 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Claude Rains Paul Henreid Gladys Cooper Bonita Granville John Loder Ilka Chase Lee Patrick Mary Wickes Janis Wilson
heiress mother architect wife child widower melodramatic emotional inspiring boston house sanatorium ship rio de janeiro mental illness rehabilitation romance travel mother/daughter relationship love
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
Drama
USA
1945
114 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis John Dall Nigel Bruce Joan Lorring Rhys Williams Rosalind Ivan Mildred Dunnock
schoolteacher spinster student coal miner squire pregnant woman moving inspiring village school glansarno, wales education coal mining ambition troubled youth illegitimate child discovery quest sacrifice 1890s
A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
Drama
USA
1950
107 Minutes
Director
Jane Wyman Kirk Douglas Gertrude Lawrence Arthur Kennedy Ralph Sanford Ann Tyrrell John Compton Gertrude Graner Sarah Edwards Chris Alcaide Sean McClory
mother daughter son co-worker emotional intense household city apartment aspirations hope romance dating family disillusionment discovery love 1950s
Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.
Crime, Drama
USA
1946
112 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Claude Rains Paul Henreid John Abbott Benson Fong
musician composer lover conductor student melodramatic suspenseful new york city concert hall dressing room love triangle affair love rivalry 1940s
After marrying her long lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Biography
USA
1944
130 Minutes
Director
Fredric March Alexis Smith Donald Crisp Alan Hale C. Aubrey Smith John Carradine Percy Kilbride
publisher wife widow friend writer charming lighthearted hannibal, miss. mississippi river nevada writer's block trapping american civil war celebrities marital problems mark twain growing up rise love 19th century
The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley's Comet returned.
Biography
USA
1945
139 Minutes
Director
Robert Alda Joan Leslie Alexis Smith Charles Coburn Jacqueline Wells Albert Basserman Morris Carnovsky Herbert Rudley Rosemary DeCamp
composer brother mother professor singer al jolson confident creative moving new york city music store theater music hall los angeles george gershwin music family broadway romance illness
George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
Drama
UK
1951
89 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Gary Merrill Emlyn Williams Anthony Steel Barbara Murray Reginald Beckwith Edna Morris
novelist veterinarian husband secretary fiancé mysterious man tense suspenseful chilling dark intense uneasy northern england crime older woman-younger man infidelity murder poison deception fall
A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
Drama
USA
1941
108 Minutes
Director
Fredric March Martha Scott Beulah Bondi Gene Lockhart Grant Mitchell Moroni Olsen Harry Davenport Elisabeth Fraser Frank Thomas Jr. Laura Hope Crews Jerome Cowan
preacher wife son daughter choir director chauffeur tender positive inspiring church house parsonage denver ontario, canada iowa family faith christianity sacrifice transformation
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Drama
USA
1942
108 Minutes
Director
Barbara Stanwyck George Brent Geraldine Fitzgerald Donald Crisp Byron Barr Nancy Coleman Gene Lockhart Larry Simms Donald Woods Grant Mitchell
soldier father daughter sister real estate developer husband emotional powerful spirited mansion courtroom vermont father/daughter relationship marriage of convenience world war i orphans land ownership nobility growing up rivalry
Three wealthy orphans attempt to defend their ownership of their family's property, but financial and romantic problems set in.
Drama
USA
1941
80 Minutes
Director
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate tragic relationship.
Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1956
100 Minutes
Director
Michel Ray Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. Narciso Busquets Elsa Cardenas Carlos Navarro Joi Lansing Fermin Rivera Jorge Treviño Carlos Fernández
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
Drama
USA
1958
123 Minutes
Director
Gene Kelly Natalie Wood Claire Trevor Ed Wynn Everett Sloane Carolyn Jones Martin Milner Martin Balsam Ruta Kilmonis Paul Picerni Alan Reed
actress entertainer mother playwright doctor melodramatic tender new york city college family home summer camp theater catskills acting aspirations love nonconformity family growing up forbidden love
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... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1954
83 Minutes
Director
fiancée doctor socialite nurse brother miner melodramatic somber pittsburgh doctor's office house coal mine coal mining difficult decision wealth class distinctions engagement love triangle love growing up
A doctor returning from the Korean War to his hometown in Pennsylvania must choose what next to do with his life
Romance
USA
1959
121 Minutes
Director
The monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been secretly ... See full summary »
Drama, History
1962
103 Minutes
Director
Geoffrey Horne Robert Morley Belinda Lee Charles Borromel Finlay Currie Carlo Giustini Terence Hill Marietto Antonio Segurini
A dramatization of the biblical story of Joseph, who rose from slavery to become a minister in the pharaoh's court.