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SHAMROY Leon
Born Leonard Tolstoy Shamroy.
Date of birth : July 16, 1901, New York City.
Date of death : July 7, 1974, Los Angeles (
).
Profession photographer; director of photography at the Fox (
).
,
,
;
Address in 1940, 302 12th Street, Santa Monica (
).
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He married 3 times.On November 1st, 1925 he married Rosamund Marcus, a pianist (
,
). They had a son, Paul, who died at age 43 of a cancer (August 24, 1926, California-May 12, 1969, Los Angeles
). They divorced on February 1st, 1937.
On January 8, 1939 he married Audrey Tate (
-
). They had 2 children Patricia (June 25, 1939, Los Angeles) and Timothy Cullinan (March 17, 1942, Los Angeles).
They divorced on April 23, 1948.
On May 12, 1953 he married his last wife, actress Mary Anderson (
)(April 3, 1918, Alabama-April 6, 2014, Los Angeles).
He won 4 Academy Awards : "The Black Swan", "Wilson" (1944), "Leave Her to Heaven" (1946), "Cleopatra"
(1963)(
,
;
), and
was nominated 17 times.
On July 19, 1946 for her first screen-test, Marilyn was shot in Technicolor by Shamroy. He was there to be a help to Ben Lyon. His laudatory critic greatly contributed to convince the Fox to give to Marilyn her first contract.
They worked together 8 years later, for the movie version of "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954).
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