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Lee Garmes

 
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes
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  • Born: May 27, 1898 in Peoria, Illinois
  • Died: Aug 31, 1978
  • Occupation: Cinematographer, Director, Actor
  • Active: '20s-'50s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Romance
  • Career Highlights: Scarface, Detective Story, Since You Went Away
  • First Major Screen Credit: I'll Get Him Yet (1919)

Biography

A propboy at Thomas H. Ince Studios in the mid teens, Garmes became an assistant cameraman in the early '20s, working on numerous short comedies and several feature films. He became a director of photography by the mid '20s, and over the next 40 years lensed films for Rex Ingram, Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hawks, King Vidor, Edmund Goulding, Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Borzage; he also shot much of Gone with the Wind, but was uncredited. Garmes was director of photography and associate director with collaborating writer/directors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (Crime Without Passion, The Scoundrel) and with Hecht alone (Angels Over Broadway, Actors and Sin). Garmes also co-directed The Sky's the Limit with Jack Buchanan. ~ All Movie Guide
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Lee Garmes

Portrait of Lee Garmes
Born Lee Dewey Garmes
May 27, 1898(1898-05-27)
Peoria, Illinois
Died August 31, 1978 (aged 80)
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Cinematographer
Title A.S.C.
Board member of A.S.C. President (1960-1961)
Spouse(s) Ruth Hall (1933-his death)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
1932 Shanghai Express

Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 - August 31, 1978) was an award-winning American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent era. He also co-directed two films with legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht: Angels Over Broadway and Actors and Sin.[1]

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Biography and career

Born in Peoria, Illinois, Garmes first came to Hollywood in 1916. His first job was as an assistant in the paint department at Thomas H. Ince Studios, but he soon became a camera assistant before graduating to full-time cameraman. His earliest films were comedy shorts, and his career did not fully take off until the introduction of sound.

Garmes was married to film actress Ruth Hall from 1933 until his death in 1978. He is interred in the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Garmes was one of the earliest proponents of video technology, which he advocated as early as 1972. That year, he had been hired by Technicolor to lens the short film Why, which was intended to test whether video was a viable technology for shooting feature films.

According to American Cinematographer magazine, "Although officially unaccredited, Lee Garmes photographed a considerable portion of Gone with the Wind. Many consider the famous railroad yard sequence among his finest cinematic efforts."[2]

Filmography

  • The Hope Chest (1918)[3]
  • I'll Ge Him Yet (1919)
  • Nugget Nell (1919)
  • Out of Luck (1919)
  • Fighting Blood (1923)
  • The Lighthouse By the Sea (1924)
  • The Telephone Girl (1924)
  • Find Your Man (1924)
  • Keep Smiling (1925)
  • Goat Getter (1925)
  • The Pacemakers (1925)
  • Crack O' Dawn (1925)
  • A Social Celebrity (1926)
  • The Popular Sin (1926)
  • The Palm Beach Girl (1926)
  • The Show Off (1926)
  • The Carnival Girl (1926)
  • The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)
  • The Garden of Allah (1927)
  • The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
  • The Love Mart (1927)
  • Rose of the Golden West (1927)
  • Waterfront (1928)
  • The Yellow Lily (1928)
  • The Barker (1928)
  • The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928)
  • His Captive Woman (1929)
  • Say It With Songs (1929)
  • Love and the Devil (1929)
  • The Great Divide (1929)
  • Disraeli (1929)
  • Prisoners (1929)
  • Morocco (1930)
  • The Other Tomorrow (1930)
  • Lilies of the Field (1930)
  • Whoopee! (1930)
  • Bright Lights (1930)
  • Spring is Here (1930)
  • Song of the Flame (1930)
  • City Streets (1931)
  • Dishonored (1931)
  • An American Tragedy (1931)
  • Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
  • Kiss Me Again (1931)
  • Fighting Caravans (1931)
  • Call Her Savage (1932)
  • Shanghai Express (1932)
  • Strange Interlude (1932)
  • Scarface (1932)
  • Smilin' Through (1932)
  • Face in the Sky (1933)
  • My Lips Betray (1933)
  • Zoo in Budapest (1933)
  • Shanghai Madness (1933)
  • George White's Scandals of 1934 (1934)
  • Crime Without Passion (1934)
  • The Nephew of Paris (1934)
  • I am Suzanne (1934)
  • Once in a Blue Moon (1935)

Awards

Wins

  • Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for Shanghai Express; 1933.
  • Twice received the Eastman Kodak Award.

Nominations

  • Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for Morocco; 1931.
  • Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for Since You Went Away; 1945. Shared with: Stanley Cortez.
  • Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for The Big Fisherman; 1960.

References

  1. ^ Lee Garmes at the Internet Movie Database.
  2. ^ American Cinematographer, November 1978 (page 1094).
  3. ^ Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to World Film, since 1885. 2008. Index home page.

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