George Barnes (cinematographer)

George S. Barnes, A.S.C. (October 16, 1892 – May 30, 1953) was an American cinematographer active from the era of silent films to the early 1950s.

Biography

Over the course of his career, Barnes was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, including for his work on ''The Devil Dancer'' (1927) with Gilda Gray and Clive Brook. He won once, for his work on the Alfred Hitchcock film ''Rebecca'' (1940). "Barnes’ photographic interpretation of ''Rebecca'' is the sort of thing to which his fellow cinematographers may point, as indeed they did in bestowing upon it the industry's premiere Award, as a complete example of what truly great camerawork can mean to a production".

He was married seven times.

His first marriage was to Helen Howell in 1915. They eventually divorced and she would later become the first wife of Frank Capra. He was married to Ethel Johnson from 1923 to 1923, then to Marie Namara from 1926 to 1932.

He was married to Joan Blondell from 1933 to 1936 and filmed five of Blondell's Warner Bros. pictures. In fact, they met on ''The Greeks Had a Word for Them'' set in which she had the leading role. Their relationship is often said to have been intense. In an interview, Blondell stated that Barnes cured her from lying. Barnes was the biological father of Blondell's son, the television executive Norman Powell (born November 2, 1934), who was adopted in 1938 by Blondell's second husband, actor Dick Powell.

He was married to Elizabeth "Betty" Wood from 1936 to 1938; they had a son named George Carlton Barnes (born December 18, 1937).

Barnes had two daughters with Melba Marshall Kruger (pseudonym of Melba Mae Kruger), to whom he was married from 1939 to 1945: Barbara Ann Barnes (born April 16, 1940) and Georgene S. Barnes (born May 7, 1942).

In 1947, he married for the final time, to Margaret Atkinson.

He died at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, after having worked on at least 142 films. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.''Legends of Hollywood Forever Cemetery''
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Filmography

* 1918 '' Vive la France!''
* 1919 '' Partners Three''
* 1919 '' The Law of Men''
* 1919 '' The Haunted Bedroom''
* 1919 '' The Virtuous Thief''
* 1919 '' Stepping Out''
* 1919 ''What Every Woman Learns''
* 1919 '' Dangerous Hours''
* 1920 '' The Woman in the Suitcase''
* 1920 ''The False Road''
* 1920 '' Hairpins''
* 1920 ''Her Husband's Friend''
* 1920 ''Silk Hosiery''
* 1921 ''The Heart Line''
* 1921 ''The Bronze Bell''
* 1921 ''The Beautiful Gambler''
* 1921 ''Opened Shutters''
* 1922 ''Woman, Wake Up''
* 1922 ''The Real Adventure''
* 1922 '' Dusk to Dawn''
* 1922 ''Conquering the Woman''
* 1922 ''Peg o' My Heart''
* 1923 '' Alice Adams''
* 1923 ''The Love Piker''
* 1923 ''Desire''
* 1924 '' Yolanda''
* 1924 ''Janice Meredith''
* 1925 '' Zander the Great''
* 1925 ''The Teaser''
* 1925 '' The Dark Angel''
* 1925 '' The Eagle''
* 1926 '' Mademoiselle Modiste''
* 1926 ''The Son of the Sheik''
* 1926 ''The Winning of Barbara Worth''
* 1927 ''The Night of Love''
* 1927 ''Venus of Venice''
* 1927 ''The Magic Flame''
* 1927 ''The Devil Dancer''
* 1928 '' Sadie Thompson''
* 1928 '' Two Lovers''
* 1928 '' Our Dancing Daughters''
* 1928 '' The Awakening''
* 1929 '' The Rescue''
* 1929 ''Bulldog Drummond''
* 1929 ''This Is Heaven''
* 1929 '' Condemned''
* 1929 '' The Trespasser''
* 1930 '' Raffles''
* 1930 ''What a Widow!''
* 1930 ''A Lady's Morals''
* 1930 '' The Devil to Pay!''
* 1931 ''One Heavenly Night''
* 1931 ''Five and Ten''
* 1931 '' Street Scene''
* 1931 ''The Unholy Garden''
* 1932 ''The Greeks Had a Word for Them''
* 1932 ''Polly of the Circus''
* 1932 ''The Wet Parade''
* 1932 ''Society Girl''
* 1932 ''Blondie of the Follies''
* 1932 ''Sherlock Holmes''
* 1933 '' Broadway Bad''
* 1933 ''Peg o' My Heart''
* 1933 '' Goodbye Again''
* 1933 ''Footlight Parade''
* 1933 ''Havana Widows''
* 1934 ''Massacre''
* 1934 ''Gambling Lady''
* 1934 ''He Was Her Man''
* 1934 '' Smarty''
* 1934 ''Dames''
* 1934 ''Kansas City Princess''
* 1934 ''Flirtation Walk''
* 1935 ''Gold Diggers of 1935''
* 1935 '' Traveling Saleslady''
* 1935 '' In Caliente''
* 1935 ''Broadway Gondolier''
* 1935 ''The Irish in Us''
* 1935 '' I Live for Love''
* 1935 '' Stars Over Broadway''
* 1936 ''The Singing Kid''
* 1936 '' Love Begins at Twenty''
* 1936 ''Cain and Mabel''
* 1937 '' Black Legion''
* 1937 ''Marked Woman''
* 1937 ''The Prince and the Pauper''
* 1937 '' Ever Since Eve''
* 1937 ''Varsity Show''
* 1937 ''The Barrier''
* 1937 ''Hollywood Hotel''
* 1938 ''Love, Honor and Behave''
* 1938 ''The Beloved Brat''
* 1938 ''Gold Diggers in Paris''
* 1939 ''Devil's Island''
* 1939 ''Jesse James''
* 1939 ''Stanley and Livingstone''
* 1939 ''Here I Am a Stranger'' (uncredited)
* 1939 ''Our Neighbors – The Carters''
* 1940 ''Rebecca''
* 1940 ''Free, Blonde and 21''
* 1940 ''Maryland''
* 1940 ''Girl from Avenue A''
* 1940 ''The Return of Frank James''
* 1941 '' Hudson's Bay''
* 1941 '' That Uncertain Feeling''
* 1941 ''Meet John Doe''
* 1941 '' Ladies in Retirement''
* 1941 '' Unholy Partners''
* 1941 ''Remember the Day''
* 1942 ''Sex Hygiene'' (short)
* 1942 ''Rings on Her Fingers''
* 1942 ''Broadway''
* 1942 ''Nightmare''
* 1942 ''Once Upon a Honeymoon''
* 1943 '' Mr. Lucky''
* 1943 ''Jane Eyre''
* 1944 ''Since You Went Away'' (uncredited)
* 1944 '' Frenchman's Creek''
* 1944 '' None But the Lonely Heart''
* 1945 ''The Spanish Main''
* 1945 '' Spellbound''
* 1945 ''The Bells of St. Mary's''
* 1946 '' From This Day Forward''
* 1946 '' Sister Kenny''
* 1947 ''Sinbad the Sailor''
* 1947 ''Mourning becomes Electra''
* 1948 ''The Emperor Waltz''
* 1948 '' Good Sam''
* 1948 ''No Minor Vices''
* 1948 ''The Boy with Green Hair''
* 1948 ''Force of Evil''
* 1949 '' Samson and Delilah''
* 1950 ''The File on Thelma Jordon''
* 1950 '' Riding High''
* 1950 '' Let's Dance''
* 1950 ''Mr. Music''
* 1951 '' Here Comes the Groom''
* 1952 '' The Greatest Show on Earth''
* 1952 '' Something to Live For''
* 1952 ''Somebody Loves Me''
* 1952 '' Just for You''
* 1952 '' Road to Bali''
* 1953 ''The War of the Worlds''
* 1953 '' Little Boy Lost''

Awards and nominations

At the 13th Awards Banquet of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Barnes was proclaimed the winner of the 1940 Academy Award for the year's best black-and-white cinematography in recognition of his skill in filming ''Rebecca''.

References

* https://archive.org/stream/modernscreen34unse#page/n827/mode/2up/search/Barnes
* https://archive.org/stream/modernscreen78unse#page/n1049/mode/2up/search/George+Barnes

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1892 births
1953 deaths
American cinematographers
Best Cinematographer Academy Award winners
Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery