Peverell Marley

Director Of Photography

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Also Known As

Marleyi Pawerell, J. Peverell Marley, Peverell J. Marley, Pev Marley

Birth Place

San Jose, California, USA

Born

August 14, 1901

Died

February 02, 1964

Biography

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Hollywood veteran who shot several Cecil B. DeMille films in the 1920s, worked in Hungary with Paul Fejos in the early 30s and proved a versatile studio cinematographer (with Fox and then Warner Bros.) through the 40s and 50s. Married to, and divorced from, actresses Lina Basquette, Virginia Ruth McAdoo and Linda Darnell (1943-52)....

Filmography

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The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

Director of Photography

A Fever in the Blood (1961)

Director of Photography

Westbound (1959)

Director of Photography

The Left Handed Gun (1958)

Director of Photography

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Director of Photography

Johnny Trouble (1957)

Photos & Videos

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Serenade (1956) -- (Movie Clip) La Danza

Spirit Of St. Louis, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Rio Rita

Family & Companions

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Lina Basquette

Wife

Actor, dancer. Divorced.

Virginia Ruth McAdoo

Wife

Actor.

Linda Darnell

Wife

Actor. Married 1943-52.

Biography

Hollywood veteran who shot several Cecil B. DeMille films in the 1920s, worked in Hungary with Paul Fejos in the early 30s and proved a versatile studio cinematographer (with Fox and then Warner Bros.) through the 40s and 50s. Married to, and divorced from, actresses Lina Basquette, Virginia Ruth McAdoo and Linda Darnell (1943-52).

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

Director of Photography

A Fever in the Blood (1961)

Director of Photography

Westbound (1959)

Director of Photography

The Left Handed Gun (1958)

Director of Photography

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Director of Photography

Johnny Trouble (1957)

Serenade (1956)

Director of Photography

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Addl Photographer

The Steel Jungle (1956)

Director of Photography

Jump into Hell (1955)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Drum Beat (1954)

Director of Photography

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

Director of Photography

Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)

Director of Photography

The Charge at Feather River (1953)

Director of Photography

House of Wax (1953)

Director of Photography

Off Limits (1953)

Director of Photography

Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)

2nd Unit Photography

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Addl Photographer

The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)

Director of Photography

Cinematographer

Return of the Frontiersman (1950)

Director of Photography

Perfect Strangers (1950)

Director of Photography

Pretty Baby (1950)

Director of Photography

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)

Director of Photography

Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

Director of Photography

John Loves Mary (1949)

Director of Photography

Night unto Night (1949)

Director of Photography

Homicide (1949)

Director of Photography

Whiplash (1948)

Director of Photography

Life with Father (1947)

Director of Photography

The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

Director of Photography

Of Human Bondage (1946)

Director of Photography

Night and Day (1946)

Director of Photography

Pride of the Marines (1945)

Director of Photography

Sensations of 1945 (1944)

Director of Photography

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

Director of Photography

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

2d unit Director of Photographer

Dixie Dugan (1943)

Director of Photography

The Meanest Man in the World (1943)

Director of Photography

Girl Trouble (1942)

The Night Before the Divorce (1942)

Director of Photography

The Magnificent Dope (1942)

Director of Photography

Adam Had Four Sons (1941)

Director of Photography

Sleepers West (1941)

Director of Photography

Moon Over Miami (1941)

Director of Photography

Charley's Aunt (1941)

Director of Photography

Hudson's Bay (1941)

Director of Photography

The Great American Broadcast (1941)

Director of Photography

Swamp Water (1941)

Director of Photography

The Man I Married (1940)

Director of Photography

Star Dust (1940)

Director of Photography

The Three Musketeers (1939)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women (1939)

Director of Photography

Day-Time Wife (1939)

Director of Photography

In Old Chicago (1938)

Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)

Up the River (1938)

Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Wise Girl (1937)

Women of Glamour (1937)

The Toast of New York (1937)

Private Number (1936)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

It Had to Happen (1936)

Winterset (1936)

King of Burlesque (1936)

One Rainy Afternoon (1936)

Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)

Musical numbers Photographer

L'homme des Folies Bergère (1935)

Photographie Designer danses par [Dances Photographer by]

Clive of India (1935)

Thanks a Million (1935)

The Three Musketeers (1935)

Cardinal Richelieu (1935)

Let 'Em Have It (1935)

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)

Gallant Lady (1934)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

The Mighty Barnum (1934)

The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)

India Speaks (1933)

Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)

This Day and Age (1933)

Fast Workers (1933)

Her Secret (1933)

Quand on est belle (1931)

Photographerraphie de [Photographer]

The Woman Racket (1930)

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This Mad World (1930)

Director of Photography

The Godless Girl (1929)

Director of Photography

Dynamite (1929)

Director of Photography

It's a Great Life (1929)

Director of Photography

A Lady of Chance (1928)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Show Folks (1928)

Director of Photography

Celebrity (1928)

Director of Photography

The King of Kings (1927)

Director of Photography

The Country Doctor (1927)

Director of Photography

Dress Parade (1927)

Director of Photography

The Volga Boatman (1926)

Director of Photography

Her Man o' War (1926)

Director of Photography

Three Faces East (1926)

Director of Photography

Young April (1926)

Director of Photography

Sunny Side Up (1926)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Forty Winks (1925)

Director of Photography

Hell's Highroad (1925)

Director of Photography

The Road to Yesterday (1925)

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The Golden Bed (1925)

Director of Photography

The Night Club (1925)

Director of Photography

Feet of Clay (1924)

Director of Photography

The Ten Commandments (1923)

Director of Photography

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Tavaszi zapor (1932)

Life Events

Videos

Serenade (1956) -- (Movie Clip) La Danza Harry Bellaver as Tonio with Mario Lanza (as Damon) in a Northern California vineyard and he's secured an audition in San Francisco, prompting a performance of a famous patter song by Puccini, Dominic Frontiere the credited accordion player, lively direction by Anthony Mann, early in Lanza's last Hollywood feature, from Warner Bros., Serenade, 1956.

Spirit Of St. Louis, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Rio Rita Opening sequence with prologue, introducing first friend Frank (Bartlett Robinson) then the hero (James Stewart), in Billy Wilder's hagiographic adaption of Charles Lindbergh's memoir, The Spirit Of St. Louis, 1957.

Drum Beat (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I Like Being Scared In buckskins at the White House, 1872, Oregon Indian fighter Mackay (Alan Ladd) summoned by President Grant (Hayden Rorke) jousts with liberal Dr Thomas (Richard Gaines) and explains for the first lady (Peggy Converse) the first daughter (Carol Nugent) and her friend, second-billed Audrey Dalton as Nancy, in Drum Beat, 1954, the first picture from Ladd’s Jaguar Productions, and writer-producer-director Delmer Daves.

Drum Beat (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I See Brass Buttons Oregon, 1872, merchant Crackel (Elisha Cook Jr.) hurries to tell troublesom Modoc war chief Captain Jack (Charles Bronson) of the new peace negotiator sent from Washington (Alan Ladd, who also co-produced, as Mackay), tangling also with military veteran and rancher Meek (Richard Cutting), in Delmer Daves Drum Beat, 1954.

Drum Beat (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I Just Came Along For The Ride Observed by Modoc Jim (Frank De Kova) who has a beef with stage driver Satterwhite (Robert Keith), Indian fighter Mackay (Alan Ladd) sent to make peace with the tribe in Oregon, 1872 (actually shot in Sedona, Az), companions Isabel Jewell as Lily, and Audrey Dalton as VIP traveler Nancy, in Delmer Daves’ Drum Beat, 1954.

King Richard And The Crusaders -- (Movie Clip) That Wailing She-Cat Wounded but improving in Palestine, Richard (George Sanders) visited by his wife (Paula Raymond) and conferring with spunky cousin Edith Plantagenet (Virginia Mayo), about plans for an excursion, and a knight who's turned her head, in King Richard And The Crusaders, 1954.

King Richard And The Crusaders -- (Movie Clip) Phantoms In Bedrobes Droll in victory, George Sanders (title character) after a good day in Palestine, installing Sir Giles (Robert Douglas) as his second, tangling with uppity Scottish bodyguard (Laurence Harvey), early in Warner Bros.' first CinemaScope picture, King Richard And The Crusaders, 1954.

King Richard And The Crusaders (1954) -- (Movie Clip) No Man Meets A Friend Scottish officer of the 3rd Crusade Sir Kenneth (Laurence Harvey) on a scouting mission meets a wandering Saracen (top-billed Rex Harrison) who introduces himself as "Emir Ilderim," good jousting sequence from 2nd unit director Yakima Canutt, in King Richard And The Crusaders, 1954.

Left Handed Gun, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) He Is Death's Child From Leslie Stevens' script based on Gore Vidal's teleplay, the lyric in the theme by William Goyen, Paul Newman's Billy the Kid stumbles and mumbles and meets first Tom (James Best), then rancher Tunstall (Colin Keith-Johnston), in Arthur Penn's radical western The Left Handed Gun, 1958.

Left Handed Gun, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Get Away From The Bible Just picked up on the range by English-born rancher Tunstall (Colin Keith-Johnston), Paul Newman as Billy the Kid is by turns deceptive, intellectually curious, and protective, in Arthur Penn’s revisionist Western based on Gore Vidal’s teleplay, The Left Handed Gun, 1958.

Left Handed Gun, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Shoot A Sheriff Paul Newman as Billy the Kid seems overly thrilled by the calliope, after the burial of his new boss, bouncing off Southerner Moultrie (Hurd Hatfield) and lawman Garrett (John Dehner), then frightening pals Tom and Charlie (James Best, James Congdon), in Arthur Penn’s, The Left Handed Gun, 1958.

Illegal (1955) -- (Movie Clip) One Shot Would Have Been Sufficient The credits ran over a murder, and though it wasn’t clear DeForest Kelley did it, he does wind up on trial, with top-billed Edward G. Robinson his able prosecutor, Nina Foch and Hugh Marlowe his attending staff, in Illegal, 1955, the third movie version of a story by Frank J. Collins.

Fast Workers - (Original Trailer) John Gilbert is a construction worker who tests his best friend's women for fidelity by seducing them in Tod Browning's Fast Workers (1933).

Night Unto Night -- (Original Trailer) A terminally ill scientist (Ronald Reagan) seeks comfort from a mentally disturbed widow (Viveca Lindfors) in Night Unto Night (1949).

Night and Day - (Original Trailer) Fanciful biography of songwriter Cole Porter (Cary Grant), who rose from high society to find success on Tin Pan Alley.

Greatest Show On Earth, The - (Original Trailer) Cecil B. DeMille won his one Academy Award® for Best Picture for the circus drama The Greatest Show On Earth (1952).

Charge at Feather River, The - (textless trailer) A platoon of army misfits tries to rescue two women kidnapped by Indians in The Charge at Feather River (1953).

Of Human Bondage (1946) - (Original Trailer) Paul Henreid is the medical student in love with Eleanor Parker's Cockney waitress in the second version of Of Human Bondage (1946).

Look For the Silver Lining - (Original Trailer) June Haver and Ray Bolger star in Look For the Silver Lining (1949), a musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star.

Serenade - (Original Trailer) A rising opera star (Mario Lanza) is torn between his wealthy benefactor and a poor innocent in Serenade (1956).

Homicide - (Original Trailer) A witness' suicide looks suspicious to Lt. "Mickey" Landers and, sure enough, it leads to Homicide (1949).

John Loves Mary -- (Original Trailer) A World War II veteran (Ronald Reagan) makes a marriage of convenience that threatens his real wedding plans.

Whiplash - (Original Trailer) Dane Clark makes love to Alexis Smith behind the back of the husband who is teaching him to box in Whiplash (1948).

Two Mrs. Carrolls, The - (Original Trailer) A woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer in The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) starring Humphrey Bogart.

Companions

Lina Basquette

Wife

Actor, dancer. Divorced.

Virginia Ruth McAdoo

Wife

Actor.

Linda Darnell

Wife

Actor. Married 1943-52.

Bibliography

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