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  Rex Ingram (director) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rex Ingram (January 12, 1893 – July 21, 1950) was a film director, producer, writer and actor.
Rex Ingram's films were considered by many comtempory directors to be artistic and skillful, with an imaginative and bold visual style.
Rex Ingram died in 1950 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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 Rex Ingram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rex Ingram (October 20, 1895 - September 19, 1969) was an American film and stage actor.
Rex Ingram (January 12, 1893 - July 21, 1950) was a film director, producer, writer and actor.
He was born Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a clergyman.
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 Rex Ingram
The African-American actor Rex Ingram -- not to be confused with the Irish-born director of the same name from the silent era -- was, for a time, the most prominent fl dramatic performer in Hollywood and second only to Paul Robeson in recognition among all fl actors.
Ingram was initially cast as Adam, but stage manager Claude Archer suggested that Warner Bros. test Ingram for the role of De Lawd, pointing out that makeup could compensate for his being two decades too young for the part.
Ingram's performance as De Lawd in The Green Pastures film was the defining moment of his movie career and turned him into the most prominent fl leading man in Hollywood -- not that there was much competition.
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 Rex Ingram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rex Ingram (director) (1893–1950), a film director, producer, writer and actor
Rex Ingram (actor) (1895–1969), an African American film and stage actor
This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
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 Ingram-Terry Love Affair
Ingram's respect for her contributions is evidenced by the fact that Terry is listed as co-director on his last film, "Baroud" (1932).
Being from Ireland, of course Ingram was more at home in Europe, but, without question, the shy little girl from Indiana was right at her husband's side far away from the land she had known as home for the past 26 years.
The Ingram's lifestyle led to some assumptions in a British magazine that Ingram was leaving filmmaking because of his "revulsion" for Hollywood, he and Terry were having marital difficulties, and that he had converted to Islam, none of which was true.
www.silentsaregolden.com /articles/ingramterryarticle.html   (2708 words)

  
 The Murder of Ramon Novarro
Rex Ingram came upon Novarro and cast him as "Rupert of Hentzau" in The Prisoner of Zenda The boy before he met Mr.
Ingram rechristened him, helped him and gave him the chance that was later going to get him many offers from film companies.
"Rex Ingram is a wonderful director," said Ramon in a voice that should be worth his fortune if Spanish accents are being used this year.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews/novarro.htm   (1611 words)

  
 Rex Ingram - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
The African-American actor Rex Ingram -- not to be confused with the Irish-born director of the same name from the silent era -- was, for a time,...
Ingram was arrested for violating the Mann Act in 1949.
Rex Ingram (director) (1893?1950), a film director, producer, writer and actor; Rex Ingram (actor) (1895?1969), an African American film and stage actor...
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 Alternative Film Guide » Blog Archive » Rex Ingram Remembered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
British director Michael Powell, who initially worked as Ingram’s assistant, referred to him as “the greatest stylist of his time.” David Lean once remarked that he was indebted to Ingram’s cinematic vision.
If Ingram’s style may seem a bit too static by today’s rollercoaster-paced standards, it’s no exaggeration to say that overall those films remain as impressive - and certainly as visually stunning - as when they were first released more than 80 years ago.
Note: Irish film writer Liam O’Leary wrote a 1980 biography, Rex Ingram: Master of the Silent Cinema, that is worth having mostly because of the great photographs.
www.altfg.com /blog/archives/2006/01/16/rex-ingram-remembered   (1066 words)

  
 Rex Ingram (II)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rex Ingram started film career as a set designer and painter.
Snatched from a Burning Death (1915) (as Rex Hitchcock)....
The Crime of Cain (1914) (as Rex Hitchcock)
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 Film History of the 1920s
Some of the best artists, directors, and stars (such as Pola Negri, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre and Greta Garbo) from European film-making circles were imported to Hollywood and assimilated there as emigrants.
Director Ernst Lubitsch's first American comedy The Marriage Circle (1924) about marital infidelity in Vienna, was later remade as the musical One Hour With You (1932).
Legendary Russian auteur director Sergei Eisenstein's classic landmark and visionary film, Battleship Potemkin (1925) was released in the US in 1926, advancing the art of cinematic storytelling with the technique of montage (or film editing).
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 The Missing Link features actor John George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
According to Liam O'Leary's exhaustive research into the life of director Rex Ingram, John George left his native country in 1911 and arrived in the United States by "devious means" to search for his mother and sisters who had settled somewhere in Nashville, Tennessee.
John George's first assignment was for Rex Ingram in Black Orchids (1916), a lively melodrama filled with gothic trappings that include a castle, a dungeon, poison, duels and the occult.
Ingram eventually earned himself a reputation for the bizarre and frequently cast dwarves and hunchbacks in his films.
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 GreenCine Daily: SFSFF: Preview.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The director’s efforts of imparting extravagant, expressionistic design into this avant-garde production proved financially fatal on it release, causing the director to move in a more commercial fashion in later years (The Last of the Mohicans (1920), most notably) before returning to France.
Ingram was considered one of the four true leaders in the burgeoning Hollywood movie business in 1923 (along with DW Griffith, Marshall Neilan and CB DeMille) by fellow writer/director Tamar Lane.
Rex Ingram was proud of the results, of course - "In The Four Horsemen I made all the exteriors I could on dull days in order to allow us an open lens and get a softer image.
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 David Lean
Claude Chabrol remarked that he and Lean were the only directors working who would wait “forever” for a perfect sunset but that he measured “forever” in terms of days and Lean did so in months.
But even while other directors in the 1940s and '50s were making several films every twelve months, Lean never made more than one (4).
As a director Lean dealt with all these “realities,” often within a given film, moved freely in a way few others have between these conventional modes and defined his vision through them.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/lean.html   (5888 words)

  
 TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
Ingram after the actress and director had fallen in love during the shooting of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Ingram was good friends with legendary director Erich von Stroheim and it is clear from viewing this sequence that The Conquering Power was a great influence upon Greed, which von Stroheim produced two years later.
Seitz later remembered director Ingram as "the most colorful and interesting character I ever met in my life." Irish-born Ingram (1893-1950) was a temperamental filmmaker who brooked little interference on his sets.
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 Charles J. Brabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
British-born director Charles J. Brabin came to the States as a stage actor, switching to films at the Edison Studios in New Jersey in 1908.
Brabin gave a leg-up to the career of fellow director Rex Ingram, who was his assistant in several important films.
His early talkies The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) and Beast of the City (1932) are masterpieces of gloomy morbidity, leading MGM to believe that Brabin could handle the melancholy aspects of the studio's Rasputin and the Empress (1933).
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+82708   (288 words)

  
 MadCat Graphic Arts - The Down Low
Paul Robeson, who had emerged to stardom in the 1920s in Showboat and had done The Emperor Jones on film, was living in England at the time, making films there because there were simply no vehicles or roles available in Hollywood for strong, powerful, fl leading men.
Ingram continued to work steadily and well in plays such as Cabin in the Sky (he later starred in the movie version, as well) and films like The Talk of the Town.
Ingram was busy throughout the mid-'40s, including work in an all-fl Broadway stage production of Lysistrata, and played a major role in Fritz Lang's Moonrise (1948).
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 Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
After working as a clerk for several different businesses, he went back to school to study art and architecture, which led to a job designing furniture for Barker Bros. Kuter entered the film industry in 1921 when he was hired as a draftsman at Paramount.
He soon moved to Metro as chief draftsman and while there worked for director Rex Ingram on such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and Trifling Women (1922), receiving his first screen credit for the latter.
Active in various attempts at unionizing art directors, Kuter was involved with and served on the boards of such groups as Cinemagundi (1924-1937), United Scenic Artists (1928-1942), Federated Motion Picture Crafts (1931-1937), and the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors (1941-).
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 fourhorsemen
(director: Rex Ingram; screenwriters: from the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez/June Mathis; cinematographer: John F.
Rex Ingram ("Mare Nostrum"), one of the silent screen's acclaimed artistic directors, gets credit for making Valentino a household name in a film that was immensely popular (grossed over four million dollars) and brought to the Latin Lover a vast international cult-worshipping female fan base.
Julio falls in love with the married Marguerite Laurier (Alice Terry, Ingram's wife), a much younger woman trapped in a loveless marriage to his father's attorney friend Etienne Laurier (John Sainpolis), and brings disgrace to his family when her husband catches them together in his studio and sues for divorce.
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 What A Character!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Among Rex Ingram’s best known roles were “De Lawd” in the 1936 film Green Pastures, the fugitive “Jim” in 1939’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the genie “Djinn” in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad.
Born on a Mississippi riverboat, Ingram earned a medical degree, but instead of medicine, he went into acting in his early twenties.
His credits should not be confused with Rex Ingram, the silent film director and actor, whose real name was Reginald Hitchcock.
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 Amazon.com: The Green Pastures: DVD: Marc Connelly,William Keighley,Roy Mack,Rex Ingram,Oscar Polk,Eddie 'Rochester' ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rex Ingram was great as De Lawd and the choir's songs were outstanding.
Rex Ingram as Adam/De Lawd/Hezdrel, Oscar Polk as Gabriel, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson as Noah, Frank H. Wilson as Moses/Sexton, George Reed as Mr.
Deshee/Aaron, Abraham Gleaves as Archangel, Myrtle Anderson as Eve, Al Stokes as Cain, Edna Mae Harris as Zeba, James Fuller as Cain the Sixth, George Randol as High Priest, Rex Ingram as Adam/De Lawd/Hezdrel, Oscar Polk as Gabriel, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson as Noah, Frank H. Wilson as Moses/Sexton, George Reed as Mr.
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 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Certain works by each of these filmmakers might be similarly considered in terms of their idiosyncratic blurring of diegetic and non-diegetic elements, as well as their utilisation of lonely director-like figures who ‘control’ space, time, mise en scène and other aspects of representation.
It is therefore not surprising that Powell is often discussed as an anachronistic aesthete in mid-twentieth century British cinema; a director who throws together the perceived floridness of nineteenth century melodrama, the values of Victorianism, the self-consciously faked pictorial dimensions of Victorian-era, family-based studio photography and the technical flourishes of a magic show.
Both appearances hint at the violent potential that is unleashed by the ‘director’s’ actions, ‘directions’ and narrative fantasies.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/powell.html   (3675 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Video: Rex Ingram (II),Rudolph Valentino,Alice Terry,Pomeroy Cannon,Josef ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rex Ingram - Director, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - Writer (Novel "Los Cuatros Jinetes del Apocalipsis"), June Mathis - Writer, Rex Ingram - Producer (producer)...
It's even better because it was directed by the incredible Rex Ingram (whose lovely-looking wife Alice Terry plays Marguerite, the married woman whom Julio has an affair with) and had the screenplay written by the legendary June Mathis, who was one of the most powerful women in Hollywood at the time.
Mathis was very heavily into spiritualism and mystic overtones in her movies, and she made these leanings manifest in the philosopher with the long beard who foresees the coming apocalypse and the subsequent havoc wrought by the four horsemen.
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 Stairway to the Stars - Details
Rex Ingram (1893-1950), the great silent film director, actor and writer also attended the Yale School of Art and was a gifted artist.
This trainimg made him a leading producer, along with von Stroheim, a close friend, of stunning visual images in his films, that are, in some cases, more memorable than the plots themselves.
His drawings and sketches, for his films or given as gifts, are rare enough themselves, but his sculpture work has been unknown and unseen, since the few pieces he produced remained with his widow, Alice Terry, until her death in 1987.
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 conqueringpower
(director: Rex Ingram; screenwriters: June Mathis/based on the novel Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac; cinematographer: John F. Seitz; cast: Alice Terry (Eugenie Grandet), Rudolph Valentino (Charles Grandet), Ralph Lewis (Pere Grandet), Edna Demaurey (Mrs.
After the smash hit of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse the previous year, the now superstar Rudolph Valentino reunites with the same team of director Rex Ingram, screenwriter June Mathis (credited with discovering Valentino) and actress Alice Terry (Ingram's wife).
Valentino still didn't get star salary (earned $350 a week) even though he now was one and when he asked MGM for a raise of $100, he was given only $50.
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 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - Films by Powell and Pressburger:, Other Films Directed by Powell:
Although both were listed jointly as director, screenwriter, and frequently as producer, and the extent of each one's participation on any given film is difficult to measure, it is probably most accurate to credit Powell with the actual visualization of the films, while Pressburger functioned primarily as a writer.
Many of the gothic, highly expressionistic characteristics of the films produced by the partnership seem to trace their origins to Powell's apprenticeship at Rex Ingram's studio in Nice in the 1920s.
Unfortunately, the film was perhaps ahead of its time—a problem that plagued the director and his collaborator for most of their careers.
www.filmreference.com /Directors-Pe-Ri/Powell-Michael-and-Emeric-Pressburger.html   (1809 words)

  
 Rex Ingram @ Filmbug
Rex Ingram (January 12, 1893-1950) was a film director born Reginald Hitchcock to a clergyman in Dublin, Ireland.
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 Movie Info for Three Passions on MSN Movies
Mercurial director Rex Ingram closed out his silent-film career with the British production Three Passions.
Ingram's lovely wife Alice Terry is cast as Lady Victoria, who tries to dissuade her sweetheart Philip Wrexham (Ivan Petrovitch) from becoming a priest.
But Wrexham cannot forget the fact that he was responsible for the death of a foreman in his father's factory, and he intends to shut himself off from the rest of the world.
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 Rex Ingram, Hollywood Director - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy
Regarded as "undistinguished" in his schooling, he obtained a post at the Edison Film Studios in New York in 1913 and first directed for the United Film Company three years later.
He once did a sculpture of Christ asleep in the arms of the Buddha.
Rex Ingram, the discoverer of Rudolph Valentino and Ramon Navarro appears to have converted to Islam later in life, and signed his name Bin Alia Nasr El-din, but he was buried according to Anglican rites in Los Angeles in 1950.
www.irishmidlandsancestry.com /content/offaly/people/ingram_rex.htm   (232 words)

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