Henry Koster — Director (17)
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The Rage of Paris (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Rage of Paris
director: Henry Koster actor: Danielle Darrieux / Douglas Fairbanks Jr. …
other title: Allora la sposo io / Wirbelwind aus Paris …
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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It Started with Eve (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
It Started with Eve
director: Henry Koster actor: Deanna Durbin / Charles Laughton …
other title: La prima è stata Eva / Die ewige Eva …
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
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One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
One Hundred Men and a Girl
director: Henry Koster actor: Deanna Durbin / Leopold Stokowski …
other title: Cento uomini e una ragazza / 100 Mann und ein Mädchen …
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.
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O. Henry's Full House (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
O. Henry's Full House
director: Henry Hathaway / Henry King … actor: Fred Allen / Anne Baxter …
other title: La giostra umana / Páginas da Vida …
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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Take Her, She's Mine (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Take Her, She's Mine
director: Henry Koster actor: James Stewart / Sandra Dee …
other title: Prendila è mia / In Liebe eine 1 …
After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent." Reading Mollie's letters describing her counter-culture experiences and beatnik friends, Frank eventually grows so paranoid that he boards a plane to Paris to see firsthand the kind of lessons his daughter is learning with her new artist amour.
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Wabash Avenue (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wabash Avenue
director: Henry Koster actor: Betty Grable / Victor Mature …
other title: La Venere di Chicago / Varieté-Prinzessin …
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
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Dear Brigitte (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dear Brigitte
director: Henry Koster actor: James Stewart / Fabian …
other title: Erasmo il lentigginoso / Minha Querida Brigitte …
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.
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My Man Godfrey (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
My Man Godfrey
director: Henry Koster actor: June Allyson / David Niven …
other title: L'impareggiabile Godfrey / Godfrey ordner alt …
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
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The Inspector General (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Inspector General
director: Henry Koster actor: Danny Kaye / Walter Slezak …
other title: L'ispettore generale / Generalinspektøren …
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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The Robe (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Robe
director: Henry Koster actor: Richard Burton / Jean Simmons …
other title: La tunica / Men jeg så ham dø …
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
director: Henry Koster actor: James Stewart / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Mr. Hobbs va in vacanza / Mr. Hobbs macht Ferien …
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.