Gregory Ratoff

Gregory Ratoff

Birthday: 1897-04-19

Place of Birth: Samara, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 (1950). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregory Ratoff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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All About Eve
All About Eve

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...

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Exodus
Exodus

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport ...

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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920'...

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Falling in Love
Falling in Love

British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title...

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I'm No Angel
I'm No Angel

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she ...

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The Moon Is Blue
The Moon Is Blue

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claimin...

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Skyscraper Souls
Skyscraper Souls

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his...

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Remember Last Night?
Remember Last Night?

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host ha...

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Under Two Flags
Under Two Flags

Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. C...

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What Price Hollywood?
What Price Hollywood?

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film dir...

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Symphony of Six Million
Symphony of Six Million

A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When ...

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My Daughter Joy
My Daughter Joy

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of ...

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The Great Profile
The Great Profile

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,...

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Secrets of the French Police
Secrets of the French Police

When a flower girl is kidnapped by a deranged White Russian, to impersonate the missing Princess Ana...

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Headline Shooter
Headline Shooter

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot....

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Café Metropole
Café Metropole

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress....

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Sweepings
Sweepings

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest depart...

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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night ...

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Sitting Pretty
Sitting Pretty

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame ...

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Once More, with Feeling!
Once More, with Feeling!

The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with...

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Seventh Heaven
Seventh Heaven

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the ...

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Professional Sweetheart
Professional Sweetheart

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponso...

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Sing, Baby, Sing
Sing, Baby, Sing

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i...

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King of Burlesque
King of Burlesque

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway...

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Let's Fall in Love
Let's Fall in Love

A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role....

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Girl Without a Room
Girl Without a Room

A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives...

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Sally, Irene and Mary
Sally, Irene and Mary

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry ...

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The Girl on The Roof
The Girl on The Roof

A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect...

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Forbidden Territory
Forbidden Territory

Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory sea...

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The Big Gamble
The Big Gamble

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remo...

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Hollywood Handicap
Hollywood Handicap

A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise m...

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O. Henry's Full House
O. Henry's Full House

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the...

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The Road to Glory
The Road to Glory

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are kille...

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Gateway
Gateway

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th...

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Abdullah's Harem
Abdullah's Harem

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Eve...

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George White's Scandals
George White's Scandals

Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest e...

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Under-Cover Man
Under-Cover Man

When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to f...

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Sabrina
Sabrina

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily runni...

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Here Comes Trouble
Here Comes Trouble

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette l...

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Once in a Lifetime
Once in a Lifetime

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies....

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Hello, Sweetheart
Hello, Sweetheart

A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to i...

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Top of the Town
Top of the Town

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom...

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For Sale
For Sale

A salesman tries to sell life insurance, hair tonic, and girth reducing exercise equipment and anyth...

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18 Minutes
18 Minutes

A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall s...

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Under Your Spell
Under Your Spell

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bri...

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Marilyn
Marilyn

This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in...

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...

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