Gregory Ratoff

...a 1944 American war film made and distributed by MGM Studios. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff collapsed near the end of the five-month production, and was replaced by Laszlo Benedek, who completed...

In this article: Robert Taylor, Song of Russia, Susan Peters, Robert Benchley, Paul Jarrico, MGM, and Laszlo Benedek

Gregory Ratoff (20 April 1897 - 14 December 1960) was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing (Bette Davis) in All About Eve...

In this article: Eugenie Leontovich, James Bond, Leukemia, All About Eve, Song of Russia, Ian Fleming, United States, and Bette Davis

The cinematography was by Georges Perinal and the costume design by Givenchy . The film stars Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall with Gregory Ratoff and Geoffrey Toone. The play Once More, With Feeling which was adapted for this film, opened...

In this article: Once More, with Feeling!, Kay Kendall, Leukemia, Georges Perinal, Muir Mathieson, Franz Liszt, George Axelrod, Richard Wagner, and Columbia Pictures

...a 1939 comedy film starring Loretta Young, Warner Baxter and Binnie Barnes in the three title roles. The film, directed by Gregory Ratoff from a script by Nunnally Johnson, tells the story of a contractor and his wife, and how their musical...

In this article: Loretta Young, Everybody Does It, Binnie Barnes, Warner Baxter, and New York City

Barricade is a 1939 adventure film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, and Keye Luke. A singer named Emmy (Faye) meets broken down journalist Hank Topping (Baxter) while...

In this article: Alice Faye, Barricade, Warner Baxter, 20th Century Fox, Lew Pollack, J. Edward Bromberg, and Keye Luke

...her first husband, Paul Sokolov, was a member of the Russian nobility. Her second husband was the actor, producer, and director Gregory Ratoff (they married in 1923, but later divorced). Leontovich made her Broadway debut in 1922 in Revue...

In this article: Broadway, Dark Eyes, London, New York, Moscow, and Elena Miramova

Black Magic (also known as Cagliostro) is a film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas, pere's novel. It was directed by the Russian-born Gregory Ratoff and stars Orson Welles in the lead role as Joseph Balsamo (aka 18th century hypnotist, magician...

In this article: Black Magic, Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Marie Antoinette, Twentieth Century, and Berry Kroeger

...Alice White and Allen Jenkins, at 1, 4:35 and 6:10; and Skyscraper Souls (1932), with Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Verree Teasdale, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Ford, Hedda Hopper, Helen Coburn and Ed Brophy,...

In this article: Wallace Ford, Loretta Young, Employee's Entrance, William Wellman, E mail, The New York Observer, Verree Teasdale, Robert Williams, and Heroes for Sale

...about Gaiety Girls. He also wrote an important work on Horatio Bottomley, the swindler. Falling in Love (1935) (story) ... aka Trouble Ahead (USA) starring Charles Farrell and Gregory Ratoff The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939) (adaptation)

In this article: Alan Maurice Hyman, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, World War II, Royal Navy, St Cyprian's School, Victoria the Great, Herbert Wilcox, and Thorold Dickinson

...audition with the famed Ballet Russe, touring the capitals of Europe before using a ballet connection to meet Hollywood movie director Gregory Ratoff. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer signed her to a seven-year contract. Working with producer Arthur...

In this article: Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Silk Stockings, Singin' in the Rain, MGM, Arthur Freed, and Hollywood