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Anton Grot (18 January 1884 – 21 March 1974) was a distinguished Polish art director long in Hollywood. He was known for his prolific output with Warner Brothers, contributing, in such films as Little Caesar, and Gold Diggers of 1933 to the distinctive Warners look and style. According to TCM.com, he showed a "flair for harsh realism, Expressionistic horror and ornate romantic moods alike". He was born Antocz Franciszek Groszewski in Kiełbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California. He studied at the Krakow art academy and at technical school in Koenigsberg, Germany, majoring in interior decoration, illustration, and design. He changed his name and emigrated to the U.S. in 1909.
The Lubin Company hired him to paint and design sets in 1913, in Philadelphia; and he also worked on films for Vitagraph and Pathé. At Pathé he developed his innovative techniques, along with William Cameron Menzies, in the way of using continuity sketches. His method of presenting a series of sketches of all the film’s sets would later become standard practice among Art Directors, particularly with Menzies (his assistant in 1917, on The Naulahka). Cinematographer Arthur Miller remembered Anton Grot:
“a gifted and talented artist who made beautiful charcoal drawings...of the set before it was completed. All his compositions showed a full shot of each set, with all the delicate tones and shadings that suggested ideas for lighting and, in general, were of great help to me as a cameraman.”
Grot came to Hollywood in 1922 to assist Wilfred Buckland with the sets for the Douglas Fairbanks Robin Hood; and stayed on, to work with Cecil B. DeMille and William K. Howard. He was eventually signed by Warner Bros, as “art director, artist, and designer", and designed 80 films before his retirement in 1948. Grot collaborated notably with fellow émigré, director Michael Curtiz, on 15 films. Beginning with the biblical epic Noah’s Ark (1928), these included The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1938), Captain Blood (1935), The Sea Hawk (1940), and Mildred Pierce (1945). Grot is credited with contributing significantly to Curtiz’ personal style.
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21 September 1930
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
11 October 1926
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
21 December 1930
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop.
19 September 1931
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
03 November 1934
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette.
09 May 1929
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
04 June 1932
An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter.
19 October 1935
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife.
09 January 1932
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party.
13 November 1925
Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake.
29 June 1935
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
02 February 1935
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
11 March 1928
Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen.
29 November 1933
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
04 January 1928
Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.
09 April 1932
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
10 August 1940
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
13 July 1933
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
23 May 1926
During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
02 September 1931
A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.
20 October 1945
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
18 February 1928
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all.
28 April 1934
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
21 March 1941
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
21 October 1933
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
25 November 1916
Rozika is a Hungarian girl who can sing quite nice. She goes to the place known as the United States with her brother whose name happens to be Young Carl.
25 January 1931
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
26 December 1935
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
29 October 1948
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
11 October 1947
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
22 December 1934
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking.
17 September 1932
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie.
25 June 1936
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
24 December 1932
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
28 October 1933
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
09 October 1935
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play.
18 February 1933
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection.
25 June 1948
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating.
23 November 1930
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
09 May 1927
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.
25 December 1948
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige.
20 October 1934
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
06 July 1930
A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she loves.
25 September 1943
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
10 June 1939
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
20 May 1931
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
26 January 1950
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly.
27 June 1945
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
22 August 1927
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happiness through the hostility of the boy's father.
27 July 1935
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
25 December 1936
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department.
28 May 1932
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
25 March 1933
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
24 February 1927
A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.
10 February 1934
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
27 May 1933
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
26 October 1946
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
10 May 1941
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
04 March 1947
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married.
22 February 1947
Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident.
