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John Hughes

John Hughes (May 23, 1882 – October 2, 1954) was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.[1][2] He worked on 91 films between 1921 and 1951.

He was born in Missouri and died in Los Angeles, California.

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Movies Made By John Hughes (62)

The Thing from Another World (1951)

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost. ...

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Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl's enormous talent, and before long she's performing on Broadway. There, she is extremely successful and finds ...

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One Last Fling (1949)

A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company. ...

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey. ...

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Cinderella Jones (1946)

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius. ...

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Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway. ...

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Escape in the Desert (1945)

Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage. ...

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God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)

Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band ...

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Hotel Berlin (1945)

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls. ...

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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain. ...

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Old Acquaintance (1943)

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives. ...

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This Is the Army (1943)

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, call ...

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Air Force (1943)

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines. ...

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The Big Shot (1942)

Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery. ...

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Larceny, Inc. (1942)

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers... ...

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The Male Animal (1942)

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose i ...

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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation. ...

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Sergeant York (1941)

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI. ...

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Santa Fe Trail (1940)

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of ...

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No Time for Comedy (1940)

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success. ...

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They Drive by Night (1940)

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company. ...

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Castle on the Hudson (1940)

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden. ...

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Four Wives (1939)

In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child. ...

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A Child Is Born (1939)

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward. ...

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Daughters Courageous (1939)

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family recepti ...

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The Kid from Kokomo (1939)

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the rin ...

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The Dawn Patrol (1938)

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace ...

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Four Daughters (1938)

Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns t ...

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Love, Honor and Behave (1938)

Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage. ...

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Call It a Day (1937)

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day. ...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must end ...

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The Petrified Forest (1936)

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage ...

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Ceiling Zero (1936)

War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas. ...

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Frisco Kid (1935)

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast. ...

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Front Page Woman (1935)

Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other. ...

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The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam becom ...

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Black Fury (1935)

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management. ...

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Dinky (1935)

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge. ...

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'G' Men (1935)

James "Brick" Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join ...

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Go Into Your Dance (1935)

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters. ...

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Maybe It's Love (1935)

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed. ...

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Babbitt (1934)

Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myr ...

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Happiness Ahead (1934)

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer. ...

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The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady livi ...

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Kansas City Princess (1934)

Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath ...

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Desirable (1934)

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love. ...

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The Man with Two Faces (1934)

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. ...

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Midnight Alibi (1934)

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father. ...

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Smarty (1934)

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon ...

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Journal of a Crime (1934)

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime. ...

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Massacre (1934)

Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights ...

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The Big Shakedown (1934)

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products. ...

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Rafter Romance (1933)

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts. ...

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Sherlock Holmes (1932)

Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and his trial judge shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and procee ...

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Night World (1932)

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incide ...

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Law and Order (1932)

A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz. ...

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A House Divided (1931)

A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son. ...

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Penrod and Sam (1931)

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there's also plenty of time to play pr ...

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I Like Your Nerve (1931)

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ...

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The Star Witness (1931)

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals. ...

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The Bargain (1931)

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake. ...

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Misbehaving Ladies (1931)

Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the debts left by her now-deceased husband. However, when she returns early, no one recognizes her and even her ...

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