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Irving Rapper
Highest Rated: 100% One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Lowest Rated: 33% Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Birthday: Jan 16, 1898
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Like his contemporary George Cukor, Irving Rapper gained a reputation as a director of "women's pictures," undoubtedly resulting from what has been acknowledged as his masterpiece, the Bette Davis weepie "Now, Voyager" (1942). Yet over the course of his career, he was also responsible for eliciting fine performances from male performers like Fredric March, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid and Arthur Kennedy. Rapper flourished in the studio system as his later films attest. With the exception of "The Brave One" (1956), the majority of his later efforts pale next to his Warner Bros. output.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born Again | Director | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | The Christine Jorgensen Story | Director | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pontius Pilate | Director | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joseph and His Brethren | Director | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Miracle | Director | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Marjorie Morningstar | Director | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Brave One | Director | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange Intruder | Director | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Bad for Each Other | Director | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Forever Female | Director | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Another Man's Poison | Director | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Glass Menagerie | Director | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anna Lucasta | Director | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | One for the Book | Director | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Deception | Director | - | 1946 |
| 33% | 60% | Rhapsody in Blue | Director | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | The Corn Is Green | Director | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | The Adventures of Mark Twain | Director | - | 1944 |
| 91% | 90% | Now, Voyager | Director | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Gay Sisters | Director | - | 1942 |
| 100% | 56% | One Foot in Heaven | Director | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shining Victory | Director | - | 1941 |
| 92% | 74% | The Life of Emile Zola | Dialogue Editor | - | 1937 |