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4 de mai. de 1991 · Richard Thorpe, who directed hundreds of movies, including Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock," died on Wednesday. He was 95 years old. Mr. Thorpe spent most of his 45-year career with Metro-Goldwyn- ...
1 de mai. de 1991 · R ichard Thorpe was a silent-screen actor who directed more than 100 films, including "The Great Caruso" and "Ivanhoe" as one of MGM's top directors.. Known as a capable and versatile director willing to take on any assignment the studio handed him, Thorpe was kidded about leaping from horse opera to grand opera when he began the 1951 "Caruso."
Richard Thorpe a débuté dans le cinéma au début des années 1920, d'abord comme acteur puis comme réalisateur, à partir de 1923. Il intègre le studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer à partir des années 1930, et dirige certains films de Tarzan avec Johnny Weissmuller : Tarzan s'évade , Tarzan trouve un fils , Le Trésor de Tarzan et Les Aventures de Tarzan à New York .
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Richard Thorpe (February 24, 1896 - May 1, 1991) was a Hollywood film director of the Golden Age, and the second director to labor on the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. Thorpe directed 180 films from 1923 to 1967; he also earned credits as screenwriter and editor. He was named as Norman Taurog's replacement on the Oz film in the first week of September 1938. Thorpe "had a reputation for ...
Richard Thorpe was an American film director. Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and onstage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred and eighty films. The […]
29 de ago. de 2020 · Once MGM executives saw Thorpe's progress on the film, they reconsidered their hiring decision. MGM director Mervyn LeRoy soon fired him. He was later being quoted as saying that Thorpe "didn't quite understand the story," according to Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. He was promptly replaced with George Cukor, according to Oz Fandom.
