#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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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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365 Day Movie Challenge (2017) - #356: House by the River (1950) - dir. Fritz Lang

I was too busy this month to pay proper attention to the celebration of Noirvember, but I did make time for House by the River, surely one of Fritz Lang’s most underrated thrillers. The marvelously gifted Louis Hayward plays Stephen Byrne, a turn-of-the-century writer who is so tempted by his beautiful (and innocent) housemaid, Emily Gaunt (Dorothy Patrick), that he strangles her when she rejects his drunken advances. Stephen’s brother John (Lee Bowman) visits the house while the heinous act is in progress, and Stephen convinces his sibling to help him bury Emily’s body in the nearby river. The cover-up does not last, though; before long, the corpse has floated out of its watery grave, an occurrence that causes Stephen’s once-happy marriage to Marjorie (lovely Jane Wyatt) to crumble completely. John also reacts poorly; his guilt weighs so heavily on him that he fires his housekeeper, Flora Bantam (the great character actress Jody Gilbert), who later retaliates by testifying against John when he is wrongly accused of committing the murder.

As one would have to expect from such a master filmmaker, Fritz Lang gives House by the River abundant flair, which is fantastic considering that the film was a low-budget effort made for Republic Pictures, a Poverty Row studio. Edward Cronjager‘s moody black-and-white cinematography and George Antheil‘s often unsettling score allow Lang to evoke a true noir feel, whether the main character is dancing in an elegant house’s parlor or paddling a rowboat through a bayou swamp. I must also emphasize again just how terrific the actors are, especially Louis Hayward, who imbues his performance with a delicious surfeit of malice.

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I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

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I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941) Cast: Victor Mature, Betty Grable, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray, Allyn Joslyn, Elisha Cook Jr., Morris Ankrum, Charles Lane, Frank Orth, Gregory Gaye, Chick Chandler, Cyril Ring, May Beatty. Screenplay: Dwight Taylor, based on a novel by Steve Fisher. Cinematography: Edward Cronjager. Art direction: Richard Day, Nathan Juran. Film editing: Robert L. Simpson. Music: Cyril J. Mockridge. I Wake Up Screaming, in which no one actually wakes up screaming, was not one of 20th Century Fox's priority projects in 1941, witness the fact that it was assigned to one of the studio's second-string directors, H. Bruce Humberstone, who was usually in charge of B-movies like the Charlie Chan films. Even its stars were not of the first rank: Betty Grable would become famous for her "gams" as the GIs' pin-up girl during the coming war, but she had mostly been a decorative element, not a leading lady, in her previous movies. Victor Mature had been in movies for only a year, having worked with Carole Landis in Hal Roach's caveman saga One Million B.C. in 1940. The studio didn't bother with an original score for the film, instead hiring Cyril J. Mockridge to orchestrate the theme music Alfred Newman had composed for King Vidor's 1931 film Street Scene, along with a love theme adapted from the Oscar-winning song Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg had composed for The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939). Today, the reiterations of "Over the Rainbow" against the murder mystery background are among the more unintentionally unsettling things about I Wake Up Screaming, which Fox initially released under another title, Hot Spot. Given all this uncertainty, it's surprising that the movie works as well as it does, generating some real suspense and keeping its plot twists concealed until the right moment. Probably its greatest strength lies not in the performances of its leads, though Mature in particular is perfectly fine, but in that of Laird Cregar, as the sinister cop who wants to pin the murder of Landis's Vicky Lynn on Mature's Frankie Christopher. Cregar is a true heavy in every sense of the word, his bulk playing off well against Mature's own large presence. Cinematographer Edward Cronjager works well with shadows, which has earned I Wake Up Screaming a reputation as one of the first American film noirs. Humberstone unfortunately doesn't have the noir touch, and undermines Cronjager's efforts with some attempts at lightening up the mood, including a silly detour into a swimming pool scene that doesn't do much other than give Grable an opportunity to show off her legs and Mature to bare his chest. But all in all, it's a better film than most of the people connected with it had any right to expect.

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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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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)

Sources: IMDb.com

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Variety.com

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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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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

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