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- Cinematographer
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One of the most innovative of pioneer cameramen, Lee Garmes started his career on the East Coast with the New York Motion Picture Company, but was soon persuaded by the director Thomas H. Ince to join him in Hollywood. Garmes quickly climbed his way up the ladder, from painter's assistant to prop boy (future director Henry Hathaway shared the same duties at 'Inceville'), to camera assistant. He struck up a singularly fruitful collaboration with director Malcolm St. Clair, with whom he worked on one- and two-reel shorts. Many of these early comedies were shot on a shoe-string budget and necessitated clever improvisation, especially in the usage of lead-sheet reflectors (re-directing sunlight) which substituted for proper lighting. Garmes also introduced incandescent tungsten filament Mazda lights as a significant cost-saving venture. In 1925, now as a fully-fledged director of photography, Garmes went over to Paramount, first under contract from 1925 to 1926. He perfected his craft at First National and Warner Brothers (1927-1930), before returning to Paramount and making a significant contribution to some of the most outstanding black-and-white films made by the studio during the early and mid-1930's. His most recognizable trademark was to naturally light his sets from a northward orientation.
Said to have been influenced by the paintings of Rembrandt, Garmes showed a great flair in the use of chiaroscuro, light and shade, which enhanced the expressionistic European look of darkly exotic ventures like Morocco (1930) and Shanghai Express (1932). Both pictures were directed by Josef von Sternberg and starred one of Paramount's most bankable assets, Marlene Dietrich, flatteringly photographed by Garmes with subdued lighting amid swirling, misty backgrounds. "Shanghai Express" led to an Academy Award and established Garmes as one of the top cinematographers in the business. His career suffered a setback, however, when he was replaced by David O. Selznick months into shooting Gone with the Wind (1939) (Selznick objected to the Garmes technique of soft lighting, preferring the harsher 'picture postcard' colours). Though the first hour of GWTW was almost entirely shot by Garmes (most of it directed by George Cukor, who was also fired), he was not credited for his efforts.
Lee Garmes imbued many more seminal films of the 1940's and 50's with his own particular style, creating the romantic moods of Lydia (1941), the exotic splendour of Alexander Korda's technicolor The Jungle Book (1942) and the semi-documentary realism of William Wyler's Detective Story (1951). He became one of few cinematographers to be given additional responsibilities in directing and production and in 1972 became one of the first advocates for the use of videotape in filmmaking. Garmes was twice recipient of the Eastman Kodak Award. He served as present of the American Society of Cinematographers from 1960 to 1961.- Actress
- Writer
Gaby Bruyère was born on 3 June 1914 in Marseille, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Le Plaisir (1952), The Truth About Bebe Donge (1952) and Innocents in Paris (1953). She died on 31 August 1978.- Philip Bolton was born on 15 November 1915 in Wasbasha, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Hawaii Five-O (1968). He died on 31 August 1978 in Grays Harbor, Washington, USA.
- Actress
- Writer
Josephine Miller was born on 21 June 1892 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Cinderella (1912), Footlights and Shadows (1920) and The Eye of Horus (1916). She died on 31 August 1978 in Peoria, Illinois, USA.- Garland Slack was born on 9 May 1904 in Missouri, USA. He died on 31 August 1978 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Tonight You Belong To Me"), composer and author, educated at City College of New York and the Columbia University Teachers College. He composed the Broadway stage scores for "A Night In Venice" and "Broadway Nights", and songs for "Greenwich Village Follies", "Padlocks of 1927", "Cotton Club Revues", and "Ziegfeld Follies". Joining ASCAP in 1923, his chief musical collaborators include John Redmond, Billy Rose, J. Keirn Brennan, Charles O'Flynn, Pete Wendling", Benny Davis, and his brother, Benjamin David. His other song compositions include "Big Apple", "Just a Year Ago Tonight", "Sorority Waltz", "Sipping Cider Thru a Straw", "They're Burning Down the House I Was Brung Up In", "Junior Miss", "Where Is the Sun", "Headin' for Heaven", "Old Plantation", "Down South", "Seeing You Again Did Me No Good", "Wond'ring", "Romance Waltz", "The Fool", "Just a Bit of Heaven In Your Smile", "Honey Bunny Boo", and "Moon River Waltz".- Vasek Mlýnek was born on 27 September 1926 in Kuzelov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Pet muzu a jedno srdce (1971), Shetskvetili simgera (1960) and Kufr plný nadejí (1978). He died on 31 August 1978 in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].