Robert Arthur

Producer

About

Also Known As

Robert Arthur Feder

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

November 10, 1909

Died

October 28, 1986

Biography

Produced the "Francis the Talking Mule" films, as well as several comedies featuring Cary Grant, Rock Hudson and Doris Day....

Filmography

Wild Youth (1961)

Frankie

Young and Wild (1958)

Jerry Coltrin

Three Violent People (1957)

One-legged Confederate soldier

The Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

Freddy Warren

The Desperados Are in Town (1956)

Lonny Kesh

Top of the World (1955)

Lt. Skippy McGuire

Photos & Videos

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The Long Gray Line (1955) -- (Movie Clip) They Been Counting Their Fingers

Sweet Charity (1969) -- (Movie Clip) The Rhythm Of Life

Family & Companions

Goldie Arthur

Wife

Secretary. Worked as Irving Thalberg's secretary; married from 1939 until Arthur's death; died on December 24, 1999 at age 92.

Notes

Not to be confused with the actor of the same name.

Biography

Produced the "Francis the Talking Mule" films, as well as several comedies featuring Cary Grant, Rock Hudson and Doris Day.

Filmography

Life Events

1947

First film as producer

Videos

The Long Gray Line (1955) -- (Movie Clip) They Been Counting Their Fingers John Ford's opening from the parade ground at West Point to the White House where Harry Carey Jr., plays President (and one-time cadet) Eisenhower receiving the 70-something hero, Tyrone Power as Marty Maher, flashing back 50 years earlier, shooting on location, Peter Graves his escort, in The Long Gray Line, 1955.

Sweet Charity (1969) -- (Movie Clip) The Rhythm Of Life Bob Fosse directing his first movie, from his Broadway show, stages a number for Sammy Davis Jr., who's Big Daddy, head of a New York

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) We Had A Cave-In Jaded reporter Tatum (Kirk Douglas) and cub Herbie (Bob Arthur) have stumbled into a story headed west from Albuquerque, meeting Lorraine (Jan Sterling), her father-in-law (John Berkes) and a deputy sheriff (Gene Evans), early in Billy Wilder’s Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Sweet Charity (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Open, The Adventures Of A Girl From first-time movie director Bob Fosse and composer Cy Coleman, a breezy contemporary Manhattan opening, introducing Shirley MacLaine in the title role, in the box-office flop big-screen version of Fosse's Broadway musical, Sweet Charity, 1969.

Brass Bottle, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) You're Beginning To Twitch Leading man Tony Randall as architect Harold brings home the ancient bottle he's been warned is probably a fake, as a gift for his Egyptologist presumptive father-in-law (Edward Andrews) and wife (Ann Doran), who came home from Europe after hearing that he was engaged to their daughter (Barbara Eden), early in The Brass Bottle, 1964.

Brass Bottle, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Big King Solomon Fan Now convinced that the antique bottle he bought as a gift for his fianceè’s parents must be a fake, architect Harold (Tony Randall) is planning to turn it into a lamp when Burl Ives (as “”Farkrash-el Aamash”) pops out, so he assumes it’s an elaborate trick by his Bohemian buddy Seymour, in The Brass Bottle, 1964.

Brass Bottle, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Also From The Caterer? In total panic because his unwanted genie (Burl Ives) turned his house into an Arabian pleasure palace before the dinner he planned with his fianceè (Barbara Eden) and his skeptical in-laws (Edward Andrews, Ann Doran), things get even worse for architect Harold (Tony Randall) when a dancing “houri” (Kamala Devi) appears, in The Brass Bottle, 1964.

New Moon (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Stranger In Paris Opening scene on board a packet from Revolution-era France, introducing Jeanette MacDonald as Marianne (Mary Boland her associate), the ship’s captain (George Irving) requesting a song, with new lyrics from Sigmund Romberg’s 1928 operetta, in New Moon, 1940, MacDonald’s MGM reunion with Nelson Eddy.

New Moon (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Stop Sailing from Marseilles to Louisiana, 1789, the snobs on the upper decks have been wondering what?s the noise below, and we discover Nelson Eddy as Charles, an incognito radical nobleman, reprising a Sig Romberg song Jeanette MacDonald just introduced, Stanley Fields, Richard Purcell and William Tannen his posse, in New Moon, 1940.

Big Heat, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Your Pretty Face Famous scene in which rightly suspicious gangster Vince (Lee Marvin) freaks out and burns girlfriend Debbie (Gloria Grahame) with hot coffee, Howard Wendell as the panicked politician, Alexander Scourby the kingpin taking the call, in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953.

Father Goose (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Pass Me By Opening with an an original song by Cy Coleman and Caroline Leigh (which became a hit for Peggy Lee), a rough Cary Grant is introduced as the title character, then Jack Good and Trevor Howard as British officers evacuating Papua, New Guinea, ca. 1942, Ralph Nelson directing Father Goose, 1964, co-starring Leslie Caron.

Father Goose (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Thanks For Volunteering British officer Houghton (Trevor Howard), with aide Stebbins (Jack Good) tricking Papua, New Guinea American layabout Walter (Cary Grant, title character) into using his pilfered yacht to become a coast-watcher, observing the 1942 Japanese invasion, in Father Goose, 1964, co-starring Leslie Caron.

Sweet Charity - (Original Trailer) A taxi dancer (Shirley MacLaine) is unlucky in love in Bob Fosse's musical Sweet Charity(1969).

Come September - (Original Trailer) A womanizing tycoon (Rock Hudson) ends up chaperoning a group of American girls who've rented his Italian villa in Come September (1961) with Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin.

Captain Newman, M.D. - (Original Trailer) A World War II Army psychiatrist (Gregory Peck) tries to help his battle-shocked patients in Captain Newman, M.D. (1964).

Shenandoah - (Original Trailer) James Stewart is a Virginia farmer who refuses to take sides in the Civil War even as it rages around him in Shenandoah (1965).

Young Bess - (Original Trailer) Jean Simmons plays the daughter of King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) destined to become Queen Elizabeth I in Young Bess (1953).

New Moon - (Original Trailer) Nelson Eddy is looking for some stout-hearted men in the operetta New Moon (1940) co-starring Jeanette MacDonald.

Man Of A Thousand Faces - (Original Trailer) James Cagney portrays chameleon-like actor Lon Chaney in the Hollywood biography Man Of A Thousand Faces (1957).

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein - (Re-issue Trailer) Universal first married their classic horror with their hottest comedy team in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

Father Goose - (Original Trailer) A WWII drifter (Cary Grant) finds himself protecting schoolgirls and their beautiful teacher (Leslie Caron) in Father Goose (1964).

Big Heat, The - (Re-issue trailer) Police detective Glenn Ford teams with gangster's moll Gloria Grahame after his wife is murdered by the mob in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953).

Companions

Goldie Arthur

Wife

Secretary. Worked as Irving Thalberg's secretary; married from 1939 until Arthur's death; died on December 24, 1999 at age 92.

Bibliography

Notes

Not to be confused with the actor of the same name.

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