Irving Rapper Movies

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power – but shows forgiveness and compassion to his…

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles…

Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the…

Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she’s not philandering with her secretary’s fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor:…

Playwright Stanley Krown has a terrific new play. It’s got a great part for reigning Broadway star Beatrice Page, and a young actress named Sally Carver will do just about…

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, he is…

A sex-change operation that changed “George” into “Christine” in 1950s Denmark.

This first movie version of the Tennessee Williams play about a faded, aging Southern belle, her shy, crippled daughter and her “selfish dreamer” of a son more or less sticks…

The Brave One is a bull named Gitano (or Gypsy). A Mexican boy Michael Ray “adopts” Gitano after saving the animal’s life during a storm. The friendship between bull and…

During the Napoleonic era, in Spain, a young postulant falls in love with a handsome British soldier who is recovering with others of his regiment after being wounded. Before leaving,…

Overweight Boston spinster Charlotte is a repressed, self-esteemless woman completely dominated by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. When her sister-in-law Lisa Vale brings her friend Dr. Jaquith, a renowned…