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Black Magic is a 1949 American adventure drama romance film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel Joseph Balsamo.It was directed by Gregory Ratoff.Set in the 18th century, the film stars Orson Welles in the lead role as Joseph Balsamo, a hypnotist, magician, and charlatan who also goes by the alias of Count Cagliostro, and Nancy Guild as Lorenza/Marie Antoinette.
Russian-American actor, director and producer. This page was last edited on 5 May 2024, at 07:18. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
May 11, 2018 · Its material is fresh, its writing is clever and its direction, by Gregory Ratoff of all people, is so nimble that even Warner Baxter and Loretta Young seem to be excellent light comedians. Mr. Ratoff must have put a Russian “conjur” on them all. It seems that Doris Blair Borland has the old Blair taint: she wants to be a singer.
Gregory Ratoff (nama lahir Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner, Bahasa Rusia: Григорий Васильевич Рэтнер, 20 April 1893 – 14 Desember 1960) adalah seorang sutradara, pemeran dan produser Amerika Serikat kelahiran Rusia.
Gregory Ratoff né Grigory Vassilievitch Ratner, est un acteur, réalisateur et producteur russe né le 20 avril 1897 à Samara et décédé le 14 décembre 1960 à Soleure . Filmographie [ modifier | modifier le code ]
I Was an Adventuress is a 1940 American drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, and Peter Lorre. An actress/ballerina works as decoy for two international con artists.
Background Ratoff was born in Samara, Russia, near St. Petersburg, to Jewish parents, Sophie (née Markison) and Benjamin Ratner. His mother claimed to have been born on September 1, 1878, but was married on June 14, 1894, when she would have been 15, to Benjamin Ratner (born 1864 – died 19??), with whom she had four children, the eldest of whom was Gregory, whose date of birth she gave as April 7, 1895 but later April 20 was cited as Gregory Ratoff's birthdate, and the year was given as 1897.
