#Edward Cronjager

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The shadows of Technicolor desert-noir, Desert Fury (1947)

Directed by Lewis Allen. Cinematography by Edward Cronjager and Charles Lang.

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House by the River (1950), directed by Fritz Lang, cinematography by, starring Louis Hayward, cinematography by Edward J. Cronjager

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Costume Appreciation: Mary Astor in Desert Fury (1947)  

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Director: Lewis Allen

Cinematographers: Edward Cronjager & Charles Lang

Costumes: Edith Head

Performers: William Harrigan, Mary Astor, Lizabeth Scott, & Burt Lancaster

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Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in Roberta (William A. Seiter, 1935) Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Claire Dodd, Victor Varconi, Luis Alberni, Ferdinand Munier, Torben Meyer, Adrian Rosley, Bodil Rosing. Screenplay: Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz, Allan Scott, Glenn Tryon, based on a play by Otto A. Harbach and a novel by Alice Duer Miller. Cinematography: Edward Cronjager. Art direction: Van Nest Polglase, Carroll Clark. Film editing: William Hamilton. Music: Jerome Kern, Max Steiner. If Roberta is less well-known than most of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movies, it's partly because it was out of circulation for a long time after 1945, when MGM bought up the rights to the film and the Broadway musical on which it was based, planning to remake it in Technicolor as a vehicle for Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. That plan fell through, and the actual remake, Lovely to Look At (Mervyn LeRoy, 1952) with Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton, and Marge and Gower Champion, is nothing special. But MGM's hold on the property meant that, unlike the other Astaire-Rogers films, it didn't show up on television until the 1970s. But it was also a kind of throwback to the first of their movies, Flying Down to Rio (Thornton Freeland, 1933), in that they weren't the top-billed stars of Roberta, and their plot is secondary to that of the star, Irene Dunne, and her leading man, Randolph Scott. It doesn't matter much: What we remember from the film are the great Astaire-Rogers dance numbers, "I'll Be Hard to Handle," "I Won't Dance," and the reprises of "Lovely to Look At" and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." Scott's inability to sing resulted in the big number for his character in the Broadway version, "You're Devastating," being cut from the song score of the movie. "I Won't Dance" was brought in from another Jerome Kern musical, and Kern and Jimmy McHugh composed that fashion-show/beauty-pageant classic "Lovely to Look At," with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, for the film, earning Roberta its only Oscar nomination. Except when Astaire and Rogers are doing their magic, the film is a little draggy, and Dunne and Scott strike no sparks. Look for a blond Lucille Ball, draped in a feathery wrap, as one of the models in the fashion show.

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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) Most interesting for its Technicolor Cinemascope underwater sequences and resplendent Key West sunsets, thanks to cinematographer Edward Cronjager. The quasi-documentary aspects of Greek fishermen, their dances and the church blessings over their diving for sponges, were clearly ripped off from Visconti’s “La Terra Trema.”  Beefcake Robert Wagner was showcased in…

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King Vidor, February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982.

With cinematographer Edward Cronjager on the set of Bird of Paradise (1932).

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i wake up screaming (us, humberstone 41)

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filming The Texas Rangers (1936) in New Mexico with Jack Oakie and Fred MacMurray. It was photographed by Edward Cronjager. This is his third honorable mention, after Redskin and Heaven Can Wait.

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**Shots of the Movie**

Cimarron (1931)

Director: Wesley Ruggles Cinematographer: Edward Cronjager

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I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

I Wake Up Screaming by #HBruceHumberstone starring #BettyGrable, #VictorMature and #CaroleLandis, "a lavishly photographed rendering of a B-movie plot with a stellar cast"

H. BRUCE HUMBERSTONE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5 Alternate Title: Hot Spot USA, 1941. Twentieth Century Fox. Screenplay by Dwight Taylor, based on the novel by Steve Fisher. Cinematography by Edward Cronjager. Produced by Milton Sperling. Music by Cyril J. Mockridge. Production Design by Richard Day, Nathan Juran. Costume Design by Gwen Wakeling. Film Editing by Robert L. Simpson. Carole…

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LIFE BEGINS AT EIGHT-THIRTY

20th Century Fox, 1942.  Directed by Irving Pichel.  Camera:  Edward Cronjager.  With Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Sara Allgood, Melville Cooper, J. Edward Bromberg, William Demarest, Hal K. Dawson, William Halligan, Milton Parsons, Inez Palange, Charles La Torre, James Flavin, Fay Helm, George Holmes, Wheaton Chambers, Bud Geary, Colin Campbell, Netta Packer, Lee Phelps, Cyril Ring, Billy Newell, James Metcalf, Alec Craig, Forbes Murray.

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I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

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Cimarron (1931)

An elegant example of super film making and a big money picture. This is a spectacular western away from all others. It holds action, sentiment, sympathy, thrills and comedy – and 100% clean. Radio Pictures has a corker in "Cimarron."

-Variety Magazine

Cimarron won three Oscars, Best Picture, Writing Adaptation (Howard Estabrook) and Interior Decoration (Max Ree), and received nominations for actors Dix and Dunne, director Ruggles, and cinematographer Edward Cronjager.

RKO Radio Pictures invested more than $1.5 million into their epic production.  Filming began in the summer of 1930 at Jasmin Quinn Ranch outside of Los Angeles, where the land rush scenes were shot. Numerous cameramen, extras, wagons, were used by the studio, which purchased 89 acres in Encino, where construction of Art Director Max Ree’s Oscar winning design of a western town was built to represent the Oklahoma fictional boomtown of Osage.  These sets in Encino were used for other RKO films, as well as other features, such as It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).

RKO premiered their epic picture at the RKO Palace Theatre in New York on January 26, 1931, and then on February 6 of that year at the Los Angeles Orpheum Theater. The premiere included personal appearances of Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, a stage show and an orchestra.

While it was a commercial success, initially, due to the Depression, RKO did not recoup their investment in the film, which lost over half a million dollars. However, it earned more money on later re-releases.

The movie continued to remain RKO’s most expensive film until the 1939 adventure Gunga Din.

Irene Dunne as Sabra Cravat

Estelle Taylor in Cimarron (1931)

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Mary Brian and Gary Cooper in The Virginian (Victor Fleming, 1929) Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen, Helen Ware, Chester Conklin, Eugene Pallette, Victor Potel, E.H. Calvert. Screenplay: Howard Estabrook, Grover Jones, Keene Thompson, Edward E. Paramore Jr., based on a novel by Owen Wister and the play adapted from it by Wister and Keene Thompson. Cinematography: J. Roy Hunt, Edward Cronjager. Film editing: William Shea. Music: Karl Hajos.

This early talkie is most famous for the response of the Virginian (Gary Cooper) to an insult from Trampas (Walter Huston): "If you wanna call me that, smile," and for the crisis that comes when the Virginian (the only name by which he is known, at least in the film) is forced to hang his best friend, Steve (Richard Arlen), who falls in with Trampas's gang of cattle rustlers. But much of it is taken up with the on-again, off-again romance of the Virginian and the new shoolmarm, Molly (Mary Brian). Owen Wister's 1901 novel and subsequent stage play were so popular that it had been filmed twice as a silent, and this version established Cooper as a major star and a Western icon. It also spawned a 1960s TV series.  

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Tuesday, November 10, 1931|Honoring movies released from August 1, 1930 - July 31, 1931

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION

WINNER

CIMARRON

RKO Radio

NOMINEES

EAST LYNNE

Fox

THE FRONT PAGE

The Caddo Company

SKIPPY

Paramount Publix

TRADER HORN

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

DIRECTING

WINNER

SKIPPY

Norman Taurog

NOMINEES

CIMARRON

Wesley Ruggles

A FREE SOUL

Clarence Brown

THE FRONT PAGE

Lewis Milestone

MOROCCO

Josef Von Sternberg

CINEMATOGRAPHY

WINNER

TABU

Floyd Crosby

NOMINEES

CIMARRON

Edward Cronjager

MOROCCO

Lee Garmes

THE RIGHT TO LOVE

Charles Lang

SVENGALI

Barney "Chick" McGill

ACTOR

WINNER

LIONEL BARRYMORE

A Free Soul

NOMINEES

JACKIE COOPER

Skippy

RICHARD DIX

Cimarron

FREDRIC MARCH

The Royal Family of Broadway

ADOLPHE MENJOU

The Front Page

ACTRESS

WINNER

MARIE DRESSLER

Min and Bill

NOMINEES

MARLENE DIETRICH

Morocco

IRENE DUNNE

Cimarron

ANN HARDING

Holiday

NORMA SHEARER

A Free Soul

ART DIRECTION

WINNER

CIMARRON

Cimarron

NOMINEES

JUST IMAGINE

Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras

MOROCCO

Hans Dreier

SVENGALI

Anton Grot

WHOOPEE!

Richard Day

WRITING (ORIGINAL STORY)

WINNER

THE DAWN PATROL

John Monk Saunders

NOMINEES

THE DOORWAY TO HELL

Rowland Brown

LAUGHTER

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart

THE PUBLIC ENEMY

John Bright, Kubec Glasmon

SMART MONEY

Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson

WRITING (ADAPTATION)

WINNER

CIMARRON

Howard Estabrook

NOMINEES

THE CRIMINAL CODE

Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo, Jr.

HOLIDAY

Horace Jackson

LITTLE CAESAR

Francis Faragoh, Robert N. Lee

SKIPPY

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz