Sol Polito

Director Of Photography

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Also Known As

Salvador Polito

Birth Place

Palermo, IT

Died

May 23, 1960

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Former still photographer and lab assistant who graduated to cinematographer in 1917. Polito shot most of Benjamin Christensen's Hollywood films and worked several times with Michael Curtiz ("Angels with Dirty Faces" 1938, "The Sea Hawk" 1940)....

Filmography

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Anna Lucasta (1949)

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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

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One for the Book (1948)

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Escape Me Never (1947)

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The Long Night (1947)

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A Stolen Life (1946)

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42nd Street (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Shuffle Off To Buffalo

Boy Meets Girl (1938) -- (Movie Clip) What Is Our Story?

Biography

Former still photographer and lab assistant who graduated to cinematographer in 1917. Polito shot most of Benjamin Christensen's Hollywood films and worked several times with Michael Curtiz ("Angels with Dirty Faces" 1938, "The Sea Hawk" 1940).

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Anna Lucasta (1949)

Director of Photography

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

Director of Photography

One for the Book (1948)

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Escape Me Never (1947)

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The Long Night (1947)

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A Stolen Life (1946)

Cloak and Dagger (1946)

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Cinderella Jones (1946)

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Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

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The Corn Is Green (1945)

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Pride of the Marines (1945)

Fill-in Photographer

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)

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Old Acquaintance (1943)

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This Is the Army (1943)

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The Gay Sisters (1942)

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Now, Voyager (1942)

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Captains of the Clouds (1942)

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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Sergeant York (1941)

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The Sea Wolf (1941)

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Navy Blues (1941)

Dance seq Photographer

The Sea Hawk (1940)

Virginia City (1940)

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City for Conquest (1940)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

On Your Toes (1939)

Photographer for "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

Four Wives (1939)

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

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Dodge City (1939)

Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

Boy Meets Girl (1938)

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)

Valley of the Giants (1938)

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Varsity Show (1937)

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Ready, Willing and Able (1937)

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

Sons O' Guns (1936)

The Petrified Forest (1936)

Three Men on a Horse (1936)

The Frisco Kid (1935)

Go into Your Dance (1935)

Shipmates Forever (1935)

The Woman in Red (1935)

In Caliente (1935)

Wonder Bar (1934)

Dr. Monica (1934)

Madame Du Barry (1934)

Hi Nellie! (1934)

Flirtation Walk (1934)

Dark Hazard (1934)

Sweet Adeline (1934)

The Mind Reader (1933)

42nd Street (1933)

Picture Snatcher (1933)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

The Working Man (1933)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Two Seconds (1932)

Union Depot (1932)

Three on a Match (1932)

Blessed Event (1932)

The Dark Horse (1932)

Fireman Save My Child (1932)

It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)

The Ruling Voice (1931)

The Hot Heiress (1931)

Local Boy Makes Good (1931)

Big Business Girl (1931)

Suicide Fleet (1931)

Woman Hungry (1931)

The Bargain (1931)

Five Star Final (1931)

Showgirl in Hollywood (1930)

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Playing Around (1930)

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Going Wild (1930)

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Numbered Men (1930)

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The Widow From Chicago (1930)

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No, No, Nanette (1930)

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The Girl of the Golden West (1930)

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Madonna of the Streets (1930)

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Twin Beds (1929)

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Scarlet Seas (1929)

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The Isle of Lost Ships (1929)

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The Man and the Moment (1929)

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Broadway Babies (1929)

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The House of Horror (1929)

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Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)

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Burning Daylight (1928)

The Border Patrol (1928)

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Show Girl (1928)

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The Shepherd of the Hills (1928)

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The Haunted House (1928)

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Burning Bridges (1928)

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The Hawk's Nest (1928)

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Heart to Heart (1928)

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Somewhere in Sonora (1927)

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Gun Gospel (1927)

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The Land Beyond the Law (1927)

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Lonesome Ladies (1927)

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The Overland Stage (1927)

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Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927)

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Señor Daredevil (1926)

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Satan Town (1926)

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The Frontier Trail (1926)

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Driftin' Thru (1926)

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The Seventh Bandit (1926)

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The Unknown Cavalier (1926)

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Silent Sanderson (1925)

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Paint and Powder (1925)

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Soft Shoes (1925)

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Beyond the Border (1925)

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The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925)

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The Bad Lands (1925)

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The Crimson Runner (1925)

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The Siren of Seville (1924)

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Why Men Leave Home (1924)

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The Lightning Rider (1924)

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Roaring Rails (1924)

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The Flaming Forties (1924)

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A Cafe in Cairo (1924)

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The Bishop of the Ozarks (1923)

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The Bad Man (1923)

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Mighty Lak' a Rose (1923)

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The Girl of the Golden West (1923)

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The Loaded Door (1922)

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Strength of the Pines (1922)

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The Roof Tree (1921)

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The Price of Redemption (1920)

Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920)

The Misleading Lady (1920)

The Right of Way (1920)

The Love Defender (1919)

Should a Woman Tell? (1919)

Burglar by Proxy (1919)

Are You Legally Married? (1919)

In Wrong (1919)

Soldiers of Fortune (1919)

What Love Forgives (1919)

Bill Apperson's Boy (1919)

Her Husband's Honor (1918)

Who Loved Him Best? (1918)

The Impostor (1918)

The Heart of a Girl (1918)

Ruling Passions (1918)

Her Second Husband (1917)

The Runaway (1917)

The Man Who Stood Still (1916)

The World Against Him (1916)

Fruits of Desire (1916)

Fate's Boomerang (1916)

Paying the Price (1916)

The Sins of Society (1915)

The Cotton King (1915)

Wildfire (1915)

The Butterfly (1915)

A Butterfly on the Wheel (1915)

Rip Van Winkle (1914)

Life Events

Videos

42nd Street (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Shuffle Off To Buffalo Dramatic climax, Warner Baxter as director Julian Marsh gives the seminal pep talk to understudy Peggy (Ruby Keeler), who comes back a star, with the Al Dubin/Harry Warren song and the Busby Berkeley number, in 42nd Street, 1933.

Boy Meets Girl (1938) -- (Movie Clip) What Is Our Story? Actor Larry (Dick Foran) and his agent (Frank McHugh) discover the elaborate diversion by screenwriters Benson & Law (Pat O'Brien, James Cagney), who are up to other studio mischief, in Warner Bros.' back-lot comedy Boy Meets Girl, 1938.

This Is The Army (1943) -- (Movie Clip) This Is War! Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Broadway pro Johnny (Ronald Reagan) drops in on his music-store employee gal Eileen (Joan Leslie) with big news, whereupon they see Frances Langford and co. perform "What Does He Look Like?" in Irving Berlin's This Is The Army, 1943.

This Is The Army (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Mr. Irving Berlin Opening credit sequence as befitting the 1943 Technicolor Irving Berlin/Warner Bros. musical, based on his Broadway and roadshow productions, the profits for everything going to the Army Emergency Relief fund, supporting soldiers and their families, from This Is The Army, 1943.

Sea Wolf, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) A Criminal Offense First scene for both Ruth (Ida Lupino) and Van Weyden (Alexander Knox), catching a ferry out of San Francisco, her situation desperate, in Michael Curtiz's The Sea Wolf, 1941, from the Jack London novel, also starring John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson in the title role.

Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The Devil In Southampton Columnist Moxley (Ned Sparks) returns from vacation to chew out his substitute (Lee Tracy as Alvin Roberts) for printing outrageous society gossip, Miss Stevens (Ruth Donnelly) steering clear, when the editor Miller (Walter Walker) arrives with a surprise ruling, in director Roy Del Ruth’s Blessed Event, 1932, from Warner Bros.

Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) How Can You Say No? Often mentioned but seen now for the first time 30-minutes into the picture, Dick Powell as radio band-leader Bunny Harmon, the frequent target and general enemy of gossip columnist Alvin (Lee Tracy) offers a tune by Joseph Burke, Al Dubin and Irving Kahal, then an insult as he hands off to Alvin, who counters, in Warner Bros.’ Blessed Event, 1932.

Blessed Event (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Ever Read My Stuff? Off to a flying start in the definitive Lee Tracy pre-Code picture, his first starring role, as novice newsman Alvin, from the advertising department, filling in for a vacationing columnist, having discovered the trick of fabricating news of prominent pregnancies, Ruth Donnelly as Miss Stevens, Mary Brian as society writer Gladys, in Blessed Event, 1932, from a play by Manuel Seff and Forrest Wilson.

Corn Is Green, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) So This Is My House Miss Moffat (Bette Davis), with Watty (Rosalind Ivan), arrives at her inherited Welsh home, the squire (Nigel Bruce), Miss Ronberry (Mildred Dunnock) and Jones (Rhys Williams) surprised to discover she's a female, early in The Corn Is Green, 1945.

Corn Is Green, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Write This? Miss Moffatt (Bette Davis), with aide Ronberry (Mildred Dunnock), despairing over whether she'll ever start her Welsh school, then discovering miner Evans (John Dall) and his prodigious work, in The Corn Is Green, 1945.

Working Man, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Putter Around Shoe magnate Reeves (George Arliss), pretending to be a lowly accountant, has finagled his way into the yacht party hosted by Jenny (Bette Davis) and Tommy (Theodore Newton), the spendthrift children of his deceased friendly rival, in The Working Man, 1933.

Picture Snatcher (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going Legitimate Ex-con Danny (James Cagney) changing careers with Warner Brothers speed, his plans not going over with pals Leo (Tom Wilson) and especially Jerry (Ralf Harolde), who will appear again, in Picture Snatcher, 1933.

Adventures of Robin Hood, The -- (Re-issue Trailer) The Sherwood Forest legend (Errol Flynn) leads his Merry Men in a battle against the wicked Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

Local Boy Makes Good - (Original Trailer) A timid student (Joe E. Brown) turns into a track-and-field star in Local Boy Makes Good (1931).

Navy Blues (1941) - (Original Trailer) Look for a young Jackie Gleason with lots of Warners' best comedians in the service comedy Navy Blues (1941).

Go Into Your Dance - (Original Trailer) Real-life husband and wife Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler star in the musical melodrama Go Into Your Dance (1935).

Frisco Kid, The (1935) - (Original Trailer) A shanghaied sailor (James Cagney) turns himself into the king of San Francisco's rough-and-tumble Barbary Coast in The Frisco Kid (1935).

Boy Meets Girl - (Original Trailer) Two wacky Hollywood writers drive their boss crazy while trying to help a pregnant waitress in Boy Meets Girl (1938) with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.

Flirtation Walk - (Original Trailer) 42nd Street stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler head a musical salute to West Point in Flirtation Walk (1934).

Doctor Monica - (Original Trailer) Doctor Monica (1934) learns that her husband loves another woman. With Kay Francis as the doctor and Warren William as the drifting hubby.

Mind Reader, The - (Original Trailer) Warren William has one of his greatest roles as a phony mentalist who tries to go straight in The Mind Reader (1933).

Three on a Match - (Original Trailer) A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters in Three on a Match (1932) starring Bette Davis and Joan Blondell.

Dark Horse, The - (Original Trailer) A political machine backs a dimwitted candidate (Guy Kibbee) for governor as The Dark Horse (1932). Co-starring Bette Davis.

Dark Hazard - (Original Trailer) Edward G. Robinson plays a compulsive gambler who loses everything in Dark Hazard (1934).

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