Leon Shamroy

Director Of Photography

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

July 16, 1901

Died

July 07, 1974

Biography

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Distinguished American cinematographer, best known for his lavish color work on epics and musicals of the 1940s and 50s. Shamroy began shooting features films in the late 1920s and, after a seven-year stint with Paramount (1932-39), spent most of his career at 20th Century-Fox. He worked primarily with Henry King and Walter Lang in the 1940s and was influential in the development of Cine...

Filmography

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Man's Paradise (1938)

Director of Photography

The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)

Director of Photography

Planet of the Apes (1968)

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Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) — (Movie Clip) A Nice Gal Like You

Robe, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Both Need Friends

Family & Companions

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Mary Anderson

Wife

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Biography

Distinguished American cinematographer, best known for his lavish color work on epics and musicals of the 1940s and 50s. Shamroy began shooting features films in the late 1920s and, after a seven-year stint with Paramount (1932-39), spent most of his career at 20th Century-Fox. He worked primarily with Henry King and Walter Lang in the 1940s and was influential in the development of Cinemascope in the 50s. (Shamroy photographed the first film to use the new process, "The Robe," in 1953.) He also worked with Otto Preminger on films such as "Daisy Kenyon" (1947), "Porgy and Bess" (1959) and "The Cardinal" (1964).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Man's Paradise (1938)

Cast (Feature Film)

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Director of Photography

The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)

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Planet of the Apes (1968)

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The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)

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The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

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Do Not Disturb (1965)

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Fate Is the Hunter (1964)

Addl Photographer

What a Way To Go! (1964)

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The Cardinal (1963)

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Cleopatra (1963)

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Tender Is the Night (1962)

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Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)

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Wake Me When It's Over (1960)

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North to Alaska (1960)

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Beloved Infidel (1959)

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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1959)

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Porgy and Bess (1959)

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The Blue Angel (1959)

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Woman Obsessed (1959)

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South Pacific (1958)

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The Bravados (1958)

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Desk Set (1957)

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Three Brave Men (1957)

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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

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The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)

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The King and I (1956)

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Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)

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Daddy Long Legs (1955)

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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

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The Virgin Queen (1955)

Fill-in Director of Photographer

The Egyptian (1954)

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King of the Khyber Rifles (1954)

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There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

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White Witch Doctor (1953)

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Call Me Madam (1953)

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Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)

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The Girl Next Door (1953)

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Tonight We Sing (1953)

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The Robe (1953)

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)

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With a Song in My Heart (1952)

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David and Bathsheba (1951)

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On the Riviera (1951)

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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)

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Two Flags West (1950)

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Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

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That Lady in Ermine (1948)

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Forever Amber (1947)

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Daisy Kenyon (1947)

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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

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Leave Her to Heaven (1946)

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State Fair (1945)

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

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Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)

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Greenwich Village (1944)

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Buffalo Bill (1944)

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Stormy Weather (1943)

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Crash Dive (1943)

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Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

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The Black Swan (1942)

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Roxie Hart (1942)

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The Great American Broadcast (1941)

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That Night in Rio (1941)

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Confirm or Deny (1941)

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A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)

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Moon Over Miami (1941)

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Tin Pan Alley (1940)

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Down Argentine Way (1940)

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I Was an Adventuress (1940)

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Lillian Russell (1940)

Four Sons (1940)

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Little Old New York (1940)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

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Made for Each Other (1939)

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Second Fiddle (1939)

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The Young in Heart (1938)

Her Husband Lies (1937)

The Great Gambini (1937)

She Asked for It (1937)

You Only Live Once (1937)

Blossoms on Broadway (1937)

Spendthrift (1936)

Wedding Present (1936)

Soak the Rich (1936)

Camera Director

Fatal Lady (1936)

She Couldn't Take It (1935)

Private Worlds (1935)

She Married Her Boss (1935)

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)

Accent on Youth (1935)

Behold My Wife! (1934)

Kiss and Make-Up (1934)

Thirty Day Princess (1934)

Good Dame (1934)

Mystic Hour (1934)

Are We Civilized? (1934)

Ready for Love (1934)

Her Bodyguard (1933)

Ever in My Heart (1933)

Three Cornered Moon (1933)

Jennie Gerhardt (1933)

Strange Adventure (1932)

Stowaway (1932)

Women Men Marry (1931)

Alma de gaucho (1930)

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The Last Moment (1928)

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Bitter Sweets (1928)

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Out With the Tide (1928)

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Tongues of Scandal (1927)

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Hidden Aces (1927)

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Land of the Lawless (1927)

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The Trunk Mystery (1927)

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Pirates of the Sky (1927)

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Cast (Short)

Glass Bottom Boat in Catalina (1966)

Life Events

Videos

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) — (Movie Clip) A Nice Gal Like You Dramatic prison intake sequence, accomplished shots and montage directed by William K. Howard, as title character Sylvia Sidney enters and meets cellmate Goldie (Pert Kelton), in Mary Burns, Fugitive, 1935, from Paramount and producer Walter Wanger, also starring Alan Baxter and Melvyn Douglas.

Robe, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Both Need Friends Sent on a hurried mission to Palestine, having offended the emperor's heir, Roman officer Gallio (Richard Burton) with new slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) and Diana (Jean Simmons), the childhood sweetheart with whom he's just re-united, in the landmark wide-screen hit The Robe, 1953.

Shocking Miss Pilgrim, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Changing My Tune Brunette and without visible legs throughout this feature, Betty Grable as fictional Cynthia Pilgrim, edgy professional typist, pleased at having found lodging with fellow “social outcasts” in 1874 Boston, offers her first solo from the eleven (!) George and Ira Gershwin originals composed for The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, 1947.

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Hell With The Scarecrows Hot on the trail of vegetation they found on what appeared to be a desolate planet, astronauts Taylor (Charlton Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner) and Dodge (Jeff Burton) haven’t noticed the figures tracking them on the cliffs, trouble ensuing, early in Planet Of The Apes, 1968.

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Human See Human Do Injured and now a captive, human Taylor (Charlton Heston), still unable to speak, has made more progress with ape scientist Zira (Kim Hunter) than with minder Julius (Buck Kartalian), but none with her boss Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans), introduced here, in Planet Of The Apes, 1968.

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) How Do You Account For Me? Animal psychologist (and Chimpanzee) Zira (Kim Hunter) has proven that human Taylor (Charlton Heston), still unable to speak because of his throat injury, can communicate, though her colleague and boyfriend Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) isn't convinced by his story, in Planet Of The Apes, 1968.

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Be Running This Planet 20th century Earth astronauts Taylor (Charlton Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner) and Dodge (Jeff Burton), unsure of there whereabouts, observe primitive humans who stole their clothes, and surprised when apes (led by Norman Burton) appear, early in the original Planet Of The Apes, 1968.

Glass Bottom Boat, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Okay, Vladimir! Doris Day as Jennifer has her status established in conversation with Donna (Dee J. Thompson), on her first day as a tour guide at the lab run by big time scientist Templeton (Rod Taylor), whom she met at her part-time job, as a mermaid, Paul Lynde the security guard, early in The Glass Bottom Boat, 1966.

That Night In Rio (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Chica Chica Boom Chic Opening with an original song, by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, for Carmen Miranda and then Don Ameche, whom we will learn are "Carmen" and American Larry, performers in a Rio night club, in 20th Century-Fox's That Night In Rio, 1941, also starring Alice Faye.

That Night In Rio (1941) -- (Movie Clip) They Met In Rio Still on that first night in the Rio night club, Don Ameche as American singer Larry meets Alice Faye as Brazilian baroness Cecilia, whose prominent husband he impersonates as part of his act, song by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, in That Night In Rio, 1941.

That Night In Rio (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Cai Cai Straight up number for Carmen Miranda, who plays an entertainer named Carmen, performing at a Brazilian society party, co-stars Don Ameche and Alice Faye in her audience, original song by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, in 20th Century-Fox's That Night In Rio, 1941.

That Night In Rio (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Quite Yourself Now? Brazilians Penna and Salles (S.Z. Sakall, Curt Bois) can't let Baroness Cecilia (Alice Faye) tell American Larry (Don Ameche) that she knows they've hired him to impersonate her husband, their boss, the less charming Baron Manuel, for business reasons, in That Night In Rio, 1941.

Cleopatra (1963) -- (Original Trailer) Hefty trailer for the original release of the 20th Century-Fox epic, by then already famous for its gigantic cost and the affair between the stars, for Cleopatra, 1963, with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Rex Harrison.

Snows of Kilimanjaro, The - (Original Trailer) Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward star in the Henry King's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's story The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952).

South Pacific - (Re-issue Trailer) Joshua Logan's movie version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Broadway musical South Pacific (1958) stars Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi.

With A Song In My Heart - (Original Trailer) Singer Jane Froman (Susan Hayward) comes back after a plane crash in the biopic With A Song In My Heart (1952).

Ever In My Heart - (Original Trailer) During World War I, a woman (Barbara Stanwyck) suspects her husband of being a German spy in Ever In My Heart (1933).

Daisy Kenyon - (Original Trailer) On the rebound from a married man, Joan Crawford marries a veteran, just as her lover becomes available in Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon (1947).

Cardinal, The - (Original Trailer) A Boston priest deals with illicit love, racism and war as he rises in the church in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal (1963).

State Fair (1945) - (Original Trailer) Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews star in Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical version of State Fair (1945).

Rally Round the Flag, Boys! - (Black-and-white Trailer) Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star in Leo McCarey's comedy Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) about a suburban town disrupted by a missile base.

Black Swan, The - (Original Trailer) When he's named governor of Jamaica, a former pirate sets out to clean up the Caribbean in The Black Swan, 1942, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.

Roxie Hart - (Original teaser trailer) To try and kick-start her show-business career, a woman (Ginger Rogers) admits to a Chicago murder in Roxie Hart (1942).

Robe, The - (Original Trailer) A Roman military tribune wins The Robe (1953) of Jesus Christ in the first CinemaScope feature.

Companions

Mary Anderson

Wife

Actor.

Bibliography

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