Now, Irving Rapper

Now, Irving Rapper (2026)

Documentary

Irving Rapper is, in many ways, Hollywood's forgotten man. After getting his start as a "dialogue director" at Warner Bros. in the mid 30's, he became synonymous with the studio's "women's pictures" and rose in prominence as one of Bette Davis's most consistent collaborators, including on her biggest commercial success, Now Voyager (1942). He was a rebel who led the studio in suspensions for chronically refusing to direct the scripts handed to him by the brass, waiting instead for material that better suited his interests and thematic preoccupations. He was also one in a secretive fraternity of gay directors who had to conceal their identities and shield their private lives from potential public ruination. Daniel Kremer takes you through an unexamined and misunderstood life of a man of great artistic inclination who expressed his innermost yearnings covertly through his work in motion pictures.

Director: Daniel Kremer

Casts

	Daniel Kremer as Narrator
	Irving Rapper as Self
	Henry Jaglom as Self
	George Feltenstein as Self
	Alan K. Rode as Self
	Nathaniel Thompson as Self
	David Del Valle as Self
	Leonard Maltin as Self
	Illeana Douglas as Self
	Foster Hirsch as Self

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