My journey ends here...
CRONENWETH Ed
Date of birth : March 20, 1903, Pennsylvania.
Date of death : June 26, 1990, Los Angeles, California.
Profession photographer at Columbia Pictures.
Address in 1940 : 8830 David Avenue, Los Angeles.
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His father owned a camera shop.
The family relocated in Los Angeles and while at high-school, in 1918, he began working for the movie studios Famous Players-Lasky as cameraman's assistant.
In 1920, aged 17, he was hired by Universal Pictures as an assistant cameraman and although he often went unaccredited, he apparently worked on many films for the studio between 1920 and 1925, including "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1923).
In 1926, his career took a different turn when he accepted a job as still photographer at Warner Brothers and this quickly led to more work with Paramount as well as Universal.He married Rosita (1906, New York-August 31, 1997, Los Angeles) a dancer working with choregrapher Busby
Berkeley (
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become director (
); their grand-son Jeffrey Scott (January 14, 1962, Los Angeles) (
) who still works today in the movie industry.By 1928, he had begun working exclusively with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and for the next 10 years, he regularly shot film stills as well as star portraits for MGM.
During this period, he often collaaborated with actor Clark Gable and helped develop Gable's on screen persona
as one of Hollywood's most desirable leading men (
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In 1941 he received a special Academy Award for his still photography, a category that has long since been abolished, for his dynamic portrait of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney that captured the stars in a lighthearted
dance maneuver (
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Today's Cronenweth photographs are often recognizable beacuse they seemed to reveal a more playful and active side of his subjects. He enjoyed demonstrating movement, which was probably and expression of his early work as an assistant director on motion pictures and his photos frequently depicted actors in lively poses.
By 1942,
he was one of the most recognizable photographers working in Hollywood
and he accepted a position with Columbia Pictures that would last for
more than 15 years.
During this time he photographed many of Hollywood's biggest stars but he developed special relationships with
Rita Hayworth (
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) and Glenn Ford (
). The two actors selected him as their favorite still photographer and he shot some of their best portraits.
His work with Rita Hayworth is particularly stunning and seemed to recognize the various and complex aspects of her character. In front of Cronenweth's camera, Hayworth is playful and thoughtful, sexy and demure, smiling and somber.
Besides producing stunning portraits of many Hollywood stars, Cronenweth continued to work as a stillphotographer on the set of many of Columbia's pictures, such as "The Lady of Shanghai" (1947) (
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), "Johnny O'Clock" (1947), "The Loves of
Carmen" (1948), "The Wild One" (1953), "The Caine Mutiny" (1954), "Pal
Joey" (1957) et "The Tingler" (1959).
His impressive career as a studio photographer came to a sudden end in 1966 when his back was badly injured during the filming of the WW2 drama "PT 109". So he retired at age 63.
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