Victor Milner

Director Of Photography

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Also Known As

Victor Miller

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

December 15, 1893

Died

October 29, 1972

Biography

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Newsreel cameraman from 1913 to 1918, when he arrived in Hollywood and began working as an assistant photographer. Milner went on to become one of Hollywood's foremost cinematographers of the 1930s through the 40s, mostly with Paramount. He enjoyed a fruitful multi-film association with directors Ernst Lubitsch, Henry King, Raoul Walsh and C.B. DeMille....

Filmography

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Jeopardy (1953)

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Director of Photography

My Favorite Spy (1951)

Director of Photography

September Affair (1951)

European Photographer

Dark City (1950)

Director of Photography

The Furies (1950)

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Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) All Life Is A Gamble

Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Realistic Man

Biography

Newsreel cameraman from 1913 to 1918, when he arrived in Hollywood and began working as an assistant photographer. Milner went on to become one of Hollywood's foremost cinematographers of the 1930s through the 40s, mostly with Paramount. He enjoyed a fruitful multi-film association with directors Ernst Lubitsch, Henry King, Raoul Walsh and C.B. DeMille.

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Jeopardy (1953)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

My Favorite Spy (1951)

Director of Photography

September Affair (1951)

European Photographer

Dark City (1950)

Director of Photography

The Furies (1950)

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You Were Meant for Me (1948)

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Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Director of Photography

The Other Love (1947)

Director of Photography

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Director of Photography

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Wonder Man (1945)

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The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

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The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

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The Great Moment (1944)

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Hostages (1943)

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The Palm Beach Story (1942)

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Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

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The Monster and the Girl (1941)

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The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)

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The Lady Eve (1941)

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My Life with Caroline (1941)

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Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)

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Seventeen (1940)

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Christmas in July (1940)

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Those Were the Days! (1940)

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Union Pacific (1939)

Our Leading Citizen (1939)

The Great Victor Herbert (1939)

Director of Photography

What a Life (1939)

The Buccaneer (1938)

Hunted Men (1938)

Give Me a Sailor (1938)

Touchdown, Army (1938)

College Swing (1938)

Say It in French (1938)

The Plainsman (1937)

High, Wide and Handsome (1937)

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)

Artists and Models (1937)

Till We Meet Again (1936)

The General Died at Dawn (1936)

Give Us This Night (1936)

So Red the Rose (1935)

The Gilded Lily (1935)

The Crusades (1935)

Wharf Angel (1934)

All of Me (1934)

Cleopatra (1934)

One Sunday Afternoon (1933)

Luxury Liner (1933)

The Song of Songs (1933)

Design for Living (1933)

This Is the Night (1932)

Broken Lullaby (1932)

One Hour with You (1932)

Under-Cover Man (1932)

Love Me Tonight (1932)

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

I Take This Woman (1931)

Ladies' Man (1931)

No Limit (1931)

Man of the World (1931)

Daughter of the Dragon (1931)

Paramount on Parade (1930)

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Let's Go Native (1930)

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The Texan (1930)

Director of Photography

The Love Parade (1930)

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Monte Carlo (1930)

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True to the Navy (1930)

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The Wolf of Wall Street (1929)

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The Wild Party (1929)

Charming Sinners (1929)

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The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)

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River of Romance (1929)

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The Marriage Playground (1929)

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The Street of Sin (1928)

Loves of an Actress (1928)

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Three Sinners (1928)

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The Woman From Moscow (1928)

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Half a Bride (1928)

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Sins of the Fathers (1928)

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The Showdown (1928)

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Rolled Stockings (1927)

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The Spotlight (1927)

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The Way of All Flesh (1927)

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Blonde or Brunette (1927)

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Children of Divorce (1927)

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The Cat's Pajamas (1926)

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The Lady of the Harem (1926)

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The Wanderer (1926)

You Never Know Women (1926)

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Kid Boots (1926)

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The Lucky Lady (1926)

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The Spaniard (1925)

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East of Suez (1925)

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Learning To Love (1925)

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Her Night of Romance (1924)

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Thy Name Is Woman (1924)

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On the Stroke of Three (1924)

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The Red Lily (1924)

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The Love Letter (1923)

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What Love Will Do (1923)

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The Town Scandal (1923)

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Cause for Divorce (1923)

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Director of Photography

Human Hearts (1922)

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The Lavender Bath Lady (1922)

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A Dangerous Game (1922)

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Her Night of Nights (1922)

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The Kentucky Derby (1922)

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Live Wires (1921)

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The Cave Girl (1921)

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Play Square (1921)

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Shadows of Conscience (1921)

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When We Were Twenty-one (1921)

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What Love Will Do (1921)

Director of Photography

Half a Chance (1920)

One Hour Before Dawn (1920)

Her Unwilling Husband (1920)

Felix O'Day (1920)

Dice of Destiny (1920)

The White Dove (1920)

Out of the Dust (1920)

Haunting Shadows (1920)

Uncharted Channels (1920)

The Sealed Envelope (1919)

A Fugitive from Matrimony (1919)

The Velvet Hand (1918)

The Cabaret Girl (1918)

Hiawatha (1913)

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Gilded Lily - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are a few photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of Paramount Pictures' The Gilded Lily (1935), starring Claudette Colbert.

Videos

Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) All Life Is A Gamble Walter (Kirk Douglas) receives unexpected old pal rogue Sam (Van Heflin), when his wife Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) arrives, buttons being pushed immediately, in Lewis Milestone's The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, 1946.

Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Realistic Man Kirk Douglas (as Walter, in his opening scene), referring to scandalous history and losing his will, his chilly wife Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) not having any of it, in Lewis Milestone's The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, 1946.

High, Wide And Handsome (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Things I Want Our first look at Dorothy Lamour as singer Molly (working at her Paramount home, age 22, months before her star-making performance in the Samuel Goldwyn/John Ford spectacle The Hurricane), with a song written for the picture by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, in 1859 Pennsylvania, with Alan Hale as evil interloping railroad baron Brennan, confronted by our hero, local oil driller Peter (Randolph Scott), High, Wide And Handsome, 1937.

High, Wide And Handsome (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You Think It's Daffy? Hunky Pennsylvania farmer and aspiring “rock oil” driller Peter (Randolph Scott) and crew (Ben Blue, Stanley Andrews, with Charles Bickford and Billy Bletcher the dimwit neighbors), can’t help noticing Sally (Irene Dunne), a guest with her father after their medicine show wagon burned, is kind of a babe, in Paramount’s High, Wide And Handsome, 1937.

High, Wide And Handsome (1937) -- (Movie Clip) She's Been Kissed Before At the town dance in Titusville, PA, 1859, infatuated Peter (Randolph Scott) with visiting medicine-show performer Sally (Irene Dunne) as his Grandma (Elizabeth Patterson) jousts with stuffy Stark (Irving Pichel) and a scuff-up with Scanlon (Charles Bickford) ensues, in High, Wide And Handsome, 1937.

High, Wide And Handsome (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Morning's Half Over Arising on the Titusville, PA farm where she and her father (Raymond Walburn, with sidekick William Frawley) have been received as guests the day after their medicine-show wagon burned, Irene Dunne as Sally has a mixed exchange with hostess Grandma (Elizabeth Patterson), in Paramount’s High, Wide And Handsome, 1937, also starring Randolph Scott.

Union Pacific (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pay Or No Pay Just a suggestion of the scale producer-director C.B. De Mille's has in mind, trouble shooter Jeff (Joel McCrea) discussing railroad progress with foreman Dusky (William Haade), mail girl Mollie (Barbara Stanwyck) working the crowd, in Union Pacific, 1939.

Design for Living (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Immorality May Be Fun George (Gary Cooper) romancing Gilda (Miriam Hopkins) in her Paris apartment then bumping into her chivalrous employer Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton), who delivers the same speech he just made to Cooper's roommate, who's also fallen for her, in Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living, 1933.

Design for Living (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Bonjour! Snoozing on a French train, George (Gary Cooper) and Tom (Fredric March) can be forgiven for assuming Gilda (Miriam Hopkins) is French, in the first scene from Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living, 1933, from a Noel Coward play and Ben Hecht screenplay.

Design for Living (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Bassington Speaks! American Tom (Fredric March) at his Paris garret writing "un-produced plays" when Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton), visiting to discourage his pursuit of his employee Gilda (Constance Bennett), inadvertently inspires him, in Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living, 1933.

Design For Living (1933) -- (Movie Clip) No Woman Is Worth It! Broke Paris roommates, painter George (Gary Cooper) and playwright Tom (Fredric March) have decided they must end their friendship because they’re in love with the same girl (Miriam Hopkins) they met on the train, then changing their minds, Ernst Lubitsch directing from the Noel Coward play and Ben Hecht screenplay, in Design For Living, 1933.

College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) When You Get To Be A Professor Gracie Allen is Gracie “Alden,” in the 200-year old original structure of the college her family stands to inherit if she, on this last chance, can pass a graduation exam, cheating miraculously from a laundry list, George Burns her interrogator representing the administration, Cecil Cunningham on the board, in College Swing, 1938.

Give Me A Sailor - (Original Trailer) A series of romantic complications ensue between two brothers in the U.S. Navy and two sisters in Give Me a Sailor (1938) starring Bob Hope and Martha Raye.

Princess and the Pirate, The - (Original Trailer) A cowardly knight (Bob Hope) rescues a disguised princess from pirates.

Great Moment, The - (Original Trailer) Director Preston Sturges tells the true story of the first dentist to find a painless method of pulling teeth in The Great Moment (1944).

Lady Eve, The - (Original Trailer) Lady card shark Barbara Stanwyck tries to con Henry Fonda, heir to the Pale Ale fortune, only to fall for him in Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve (1941).

My Favorite Spy (1951) - (Original Trailer) A comedian poses as an international spy to recover mysterious microfilm in My Favorite Spy (1951) starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr.

Cleopatra (1934) - (Re-issue Trailer) Claudette Colbert is the Queen of the Nile in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934).

Love Me Tonight - (Original Trailer) Parisian tailor Maurice Chevalier falls in love with princess Jeanette MacDonald in the musical Love Me Tonight (1932).

Crusades, The - (Original Trailer) Cecil B. DeMille presents the story of The Crusades (1935) with Henry Wilcoxon as the Holy Land-bound Richard the Lion-Hearted.

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