My journey ends here...
Date of birth : August 7, 1902, Los Angeles, California (
).
Date of death : February 18, 1952, Los Angeles, California (
).
Profession photographer.
Addresses
* 1920 : 401 South Coronado Street, Los Angeles
* 1942-1950 : 5143 Reseda Boulevard, Los Angeles
* 1952 : 5143 Otis Avenue, Los Angeles.
Story
On July 8, 1924 in Los Angeles, he married Ruth Emilie Corbin (July 30, 1906, Arizona-October 1, 1986,
California)(
-
). They would divorce before 1930.
He later married Louise F. (born in 1906, Nebraska). They had 2 children Roxanne (born in 1932, California) and John M. (born in 1945, California).
He worked as an assistant camera man on the 1931 movie "Delicious".
In 1942 he worked at the RKO.
He then worked exclusively in the Camera and Electric Department doing uncredited still photography on some of the best films.
He
photographed many of the greats as well including Constance Bennett,
Joan Crawford (
), Irene
Dunne, Ginger Rogers, William Powell, Joel McCrea,
Katherine Hepburn, Dolores Del Rio (
), James
Stewart, Cary Grant, Jean
Arthur (
), Jennifer Jones (
), Joseph Cotten (
), Ethel
Barrymore.
He did
many films with the great Ginger Rogers (
) including many with Fred
Astaire (
), and worked on two Hitchcock films, ,"Rope" and "The Paradine
Case".
He did many photos for "Portrait of Jennie".
In addition, he did many publicity shots of stars such as Carole Lombard (
), Marilyn Monroe
(
-
) and Lucille Ball (
).
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