Lee Garmes

Director Of Photography

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Also Known As

Lee Dewey Garmes

Birth Place

Peoria, Illinois, USA

Born

May 27, 1898

Died

August 31, 1978

Biography

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Celebrated cinematographer, in Hollywood from 1916. Garmes shot his first feature in 1924 and subsequently proved himself adept at romantic, exotic subjects, photographing several Josef von Sternberg films in the early 1930s. Outstanding achievements include "Zoo in Budapest" (1933), "China Girl" (1942) and Max Ophuls's "Caught" (1949)....

Filmography

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Hannah Lee (1953)

Actor's Blood and Woman of Sin (1952)

Specter of the Rose (1946)

Angels over Broadway (1940)

Once in a Blue Moon (1935)

Associate Director

The Scoundrel (1935)

Associate Director

Photos & Videos

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An American Tragedy (1931) — (Movie Clip) You Mustn’t Begin That Way

An American Tragedy (1931) — (Movie Clip) We’ll Have To Be More Careful

Family & Companions

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Ruth Hall

Wife

Actor. Lead in Ken Maynard Westerns.

Biography

Celebrated cinematographer, in Hollywood from 1916. Garmes shot his first feature in 1924 and subsequently proved himself adept at romantic, exotic subjects, photographing several Josef von Sternberg films in the early 1930s. Outstanding achievements include "Zoo in Budapest" (1933), "China Girl" (1942) and Max Ophuls's "Caught" (1949).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Hannah Lee (1953)

Actor's Blood and Woman of Sin (1952)

Specter of the Rose (1946)

Angels over Broadway (1940)

Once in a Blue Moon (1935)

Associate Director

The Scoundrel (1935)

Associate Director

Crime Without Passion (1934)

Associate Director

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Cinematographer

How To Save a Marriage--And Ruin Your Life (1968)

Director of Photography

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)

Director of Photography

Lady in a Cage (1964)

Director of Photography

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Big Fisherman (1959)

Happy Anniversary (1959)

Director of Photography

Never Love a Stranger (1958)

Director of Photography

The Big Boodle (1957)

D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)

Director of Photography

The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)

Director of Photography

The Sharkfighters (1956)

Director of Photography

Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

The Desperate Hours (1955)

Director of Photography

Man with the Gun (1955)

Director of Photography

Thunder in the East (1953)

Director of Photography

Hannah Lee (1953)

Director of Photography

Actor's Blood and Woman of Sin (1952)

Director of Photography

The Captive City (1952)

Director of Photography

The Lusty Men (1952)

Director of Photography

That's My Boy (1951)

Director of Photography

Saturday's Hero (1951)

Director of Photography

Detective Story (1951)

Director of Photography

My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)

Director of Photography

My Foolish Heart (1950)

Director of Photography

The Furies (1950)

Our Very Own (1950)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)

Director of Photography

Roseanna McCoy (1949)

Director of Photography

The Paradine Case (1948)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Director of Photography

Nightmare Alley (1947)

Director of Photography

Duel in the Sun (1947)

Director of Photography

The Searching Wind (1946)

Director of Photography

Young Widow (1946)

Director of Photography

Specter of the Rose (1946)

Director of Photography

Paris--Underground (1945)

Cinematographer

Love Letters (1945)

Director of Photography

Since You Went Away (1944)

None Shall Escape (1944)

Director of Photography

Guest in the House (1944)

Director of Photography

Flight for Freedom (1943)

Director of Photography

Forever and a Day (1943)

Director of Photography

China Girl (1943)

Director of Photography

Footlight Serenade (1942)

Director of Photography

Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Angels over Broadway (1940)

Director of Photography

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Once in a Blue Moon (1935)

The Scoundrel (1935)

George White's Scandals (1934)

Crime Without Passion (1934)

I Am Suzanne! (1934)

My Lips Betray (1933)

Face in the Sky (1933)

Zoo in Budapest (1933)

Shanghai Madness (1933)

Call Her Savage (1932)

Scarface (1932)

Strange Interlude (1932)

Smilin' Through (1932)

Shanghai Express (1932)

Fighting Caravans (1931)

Kiss Me Again (1931)

An American Tragedy (1931)

City Streets (1931)

Dishonored (1931)

Confessions of a Co-ed (1931)

Lilies of the Field (1930)

Director of Photography

Bright Lights (1930)

Director of Photography

The Other Tomorrow (1930)

Director of Photography

Song of the Flame (1930)

Director of Photography

Whoopee! (1930)

Spring Is Here (1930)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Great Divide (1929)

Director of Photography

Disraeli (1929)

Director of Photography

His Captive Woman (1929)

Director of Photography

Love and the Devil (1929)

Director of Photography

Prisoners (1929)

Director of Photography

Waterfront (1928)

Director of Photography

The Yellow Lily (1928)

Director of Photography

The Barker (1928)

Director of Photography

The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1928)

Director of Photography

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928)

Rose of the Golden West (1927)

Director of Photography

The Love Mart (1927)

The Garden of Allah (1927)

Director of Photography

A Social Celebrity (1926)

Director of Photography

The Palm Beach Girl (1926)

Director of Photography

The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)

The Popular Sin (1926)

Director of Photography

The Carnival Girl (1926)

Director of Photography

The Show Off (1926)

Director of Photography

Keep Smiling (1925)

Director of Photography

Crack o' Dawn (1925)

Director of Photography

Goat Getter (1925)

Director of Photography

Find Your Man (1924)

Director of Photography

I'll Get Him Yet (1919)

Nugget Nell (1919)

Nobody Home (1919)

The Hope Chest (1918)

Producer (Feature Film)

Hannah Lee (1953)

Specter of the Rose (1946)

Associate Producer

Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

The Lilac Domino (1937)

Associate Producer

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Dreaming Lips (1937)

Tech Supervisor and co-Director

Life Events

1916

Painter's assistant

1916

Prop boy

1916

Assistant cameraman

1924

Director of photography

Videos

An American Tragedy (1931) — (Movie Clip) You Mustn’t Begin That Way Shooting at Lake Arrowhead, Phillips Holmes, a varsity crew star in college, with a modest piece of paddling skill, as ambitious poor-relation Clyde, hired at his affluent uncle’s shirt factory, seems to be nearly stalking his employee Roberta (Sylvia Sidney), their second encounter outside work, in Josef Von Sternberg’s version of the Theodore Dreiser novel, An American Tragedy, 1931.

An American Tragedy (1931) — (Movie Clip) We’ll Have To Be More Careful We’ve just learned that his near-forgotten employee-girlfriend is pregnant, as Clyde (Phillips Holmes), the poor-relation climber hired to a modest position at his wealthy uncle’s factory, joins his decidedly smitten and bold society flame Sondra (Frances Dee) at the lake, director Josef Von Sternberg working at Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino National Forest, in the first feature from the Theodore Dreiser novel, An American Tragedy, 1931.

Scarface (1932) -- (Movie Clip) He Come To A Dead Stop Just sprung after offing a rival gangster, Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) visits his boss Johnny (Osgood Perkins) and meets girlfriend Poppy (Karen Morley), early in Howard Hawks' Scarface, 1932.

Scarface (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Hear So Good Tony (Paul Muni) is romancing Poppy (Karen Morley), then thrilled by a drive-by shooting, then off with pals (George Raft, Vince Barnett) to visit boss Johnny (Osgood Perkins), director Howard Hawks gunning it, in Scarface, 1932.

Scarface (1932) -- (Movie Clip) You Just Spend It Rising gangster Tony (Paul Muni) at home with mother (Inez Palange) then expressing perhaps unhealthy interest in his sister Cesca (Ann Dvorak), pal Rinaldo (George Raft) observing, in Howard Hawks' Scarface, 1932.

Scarface (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The World Is Yours Thugs Rinaldo (George Raft) and Angelo (Vince Barnett) splitting as Tony (Paul Muni), who's just rubbed out another rival, welcomes their bosses' girlfriend Poppy (Karen Morley), in Howard Hawks' Scarface, 1932.

Scarface (1932) -- (Movie Clip) An Indictment Of Gang Rule Opening with what became a standard disclaimer, director Howard Hawks introduces gangster Costillo (Harry Vejar) for his only scene, and star Paul Muni in silhouette, in Scarface, 1932.

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) My Scotch Blood Is Working Carnival boss Hoatley (James Flavin) receiving an affronted town marshal (James Burke), his new M-C and all purpose performer Stan (Tyrone Power), with an assist from Molly (Coleen Gray), laying down the charm to keep the show from being shut down, in Nightmare Alley, 1947.

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) The Lady's Silence Now a big hit in Chicago, using the fortune telling code trick they stole from their ex-friends at the carnival, Stan (Tyrone Power) and his wife-assistant Molly (Colleen Gray) at work, Helen Walker as unannounced psychologist Dr. Ritter in the audience, in Nightmare Alley, 1947.

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) They Look Plenty Weird The carnival crew splurging on a hotel stay, new man Stan (Tyrone Power) plotting with his lover, fortune teller Zeena (Joan Blondell), who’s still devoted to her alcoholic husband “Pete,” whom she plans to send to treatment, reading ominous tarot cards, in Nightmare Alley, 1947.

Nightmare Alley (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Is A Guy Born That Way? From the top, Edmund Goulding directing, from the William Lindsay Gresham novel, we learn Stan (Tyrone Power) is the new general duty man at the carnival, querying the boss (James Flavin), and supporting the enamored fortune teller Zeena (Joan Blondell), in Nightmare Alley, 1947.

Since You Went Away (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Eternal Also-Ran Anne (Claudette Colbert) meets divorcee Emily (Agnes Moorehead) for a drink, social commentary overheard, and Tony (Joseph Cotten) appearing, in David Selznick's home-front saga Since You Went Away, 1944.

Scarface (1932) - (1979 Re-issue Trailer) Al Pacino got nothin' on Paul Muni, see, as the original Scarface (1932) directed by Howard Hawks, produced by Howard Hughes.

Land of the Pharaohs - (Original Trailer) A scheming seductress (Joan Collins) plots to make herself queen of Egypt in Howard Hawks' Land of the Pharaohs (1955).

Fighting Kentuckian, The - (Re-issue Trailer) John Wayne and a Laurel-less Oliver Hardy battle landgrabbers in the American Frontier in The Fighting Kentuckian (1950).

Gone With the Wind (1939) -- (1961 Re-Issue Trailer) Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) fights to save her beloved plantation and find love during the Civil War in Gone With the Wind (1939).

Nightmare Alley - (Textless Trailer) An ambitious carnival worker (Tyrone Power) attempts to scam his way out of the carnival in the brutal noir Nightmare Alley (1947).

Morocco - (Original Trailer) Marlene Dietrich plays a nightclub singer who falls hard for a Foreign Legionnaire (Gary Cooper) in her first American film Morocco (1930).

Misty - (Original Trailer) A farm boy and his sister capture a mysterious wild horse in Misty (1961), adapted from the children's classic Misty of Chincoteague.

Detective Story -- (Original Trailer) A rigid police detective (Kirk Douglas) accidentally uncovers his wife's shady past life in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951).

Lusty Men, The - (Re-issue Trailer) A faded rodeo star mentors a younger rider but falls for his wife in The Lusty Men (1952), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Robert Mitchum.

Disraeli -- (Re-release Trailer) George Arliss won the second Academy Award for Best Actor portraying Disraeli (1929), co-starring Joan Bennett.

Companions

Ruth Hall

Wife

Actor. Lead in Ken Maynard Westerns.

Bibliography

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