Henry Koster

All Movies of Henry Koster

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  5.8
  The Singing Nun
  A Belgian nun, Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls like, Nichole and little Dominic. When Father Clementi hears Sister Ann's uplifting singing style, he takes her to a talen...
  Director of the film

   1966

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  6.5
  Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  James Stewart reunites with his Harvey director, Henry Koster, in this 1962 comedy, which is charming enough even though it doesn't seem quite up to the level of talent involved. (The screenwriter is the legendary Nunnally Johnson...
  Director of the film

   1962

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  7.5
  Flower Drum Song
  A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco, she meets another man and falls deeply in love with him and the American way of life; to her father's disapproval.
  Director of the film

   1961

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  The Story of Ruth
  This Biblical epic stars Elana Eden as Ruth, who serves in the temple where the High Priestess (Viveca Lindfors) leads the worship of the Pagan idols of the people of Moab. When Ruth falls in love with Mahlon (Tom Tryon), a Hebrew...
  Director of the film

   1960

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  6.0
  The Naked Maja
  The peasant Francisco de Goya becomes a famous painter under the influence of the Duquesa de Alba.
  Director of the film

   1958

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  6.5
  Fräulein
  A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
  Director of the film

   1958

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  7.0
  My Man Godfrey
  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...
  Director of the film

   1957

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  4.0
  The Power and the Prize
  Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it does today. Robert Taylor stars as a American business executive working in England. Taylor wants to marry ...
  Director of the film

   1956

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  6.9
  The Virgin Queen
  Sir Walter Raleigh gains audience with Queen Elizabeth I and soon wins her over to his way of thinking. He wants ships to sail and make a name for England. A young ward of the court, Beth Throgmorton, is strongly attracted to Rale...
  Director of the film

   1955

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  6.6
  A Man Called Peter
  Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotlan...
  Director of the film

   1955

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  6.7
  Désirée
  In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring abo...
  Director of the film

   1954

• 
  7.1
  The Robe
  Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. ...
  Director of the film

   1953

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  Stars and Stripes Forever
  In the 1890s, Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa, leader of the Marine Corps Band, meets Private Willie Little, inventor of an instrument he calls the Sousaphone...and Little's girlfriend, shapely showgirl Lily. To support his growing f...
  Director of the film

   1952

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  6.6
  O. Henry's Full House
  This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries...
  Director of the film

   1952

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  7.5
  My Cousin Rachel
  While investigating the mysterious death of his cousin, Philip begins to suspect that the grieving widow may actually be behind the death.
  Director of the film

   1952

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  My Blue Heaven
  Kitty Moran (Betty Grable), a radio star finds out she is pregnant however she miscarries. Kitty and her husband Jack (Dan Dailey) move their show to television and become determined to adopt a baby.
  Director of the film

   1950

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  5.5
  Wabash Avenue
  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 Su...
  Director of the film

   1950

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  7.7
  Harvey
  The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also...
  Director of the film

   1950

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  The Inspector General
  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. Fear...
  Director of the film

   1949

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  7.0
  Come to the Stable
  Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small New England town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in achieving their dream including a struggling artist, a popular co...
  Director of the film

   1949

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  7.0
  The Luck of the Irish
  Steven Fitzgerald, a newpaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and a beautiful young woman while traveling in Ireland. When he returns to his fiance and her wealthy father's political campaign in New York, he finds that ...
  Director of the film

   1948

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  7.0
  The Bishop's Wife
  A harassed bishop's prayers are answered when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church. The heavenly agent performs a number of miracles on his behalf, restoring hope to all. A d...
  Director of the film

   1947

• 
  6.6
  The Unfinished Dance
  Director of the film

   1947

• 
  7.0
  Music for Millions
  "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the coun...
  Director of the film

   1944

• 
  8.0
  It Started with Eve
  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...
  Director of the film

   1941

• 
  7.4
  Spring Parade
  In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage....
  Director of the film

   1940

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  First Love
  Director of the film

   1939

• 
  6.3
  One Hundred Men and a Girl
  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 t
  Director of the film

   1937

• 
  6.0
  Three Smart Girls
  The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the Smart Girls (nominal ages...
  Director of the film

   1936