Joseph A. Valentine (July 24, 1900 in New York City, as ''Giuseppe Valentino'' – May 18, 1949 in ( Cheviot Hills, California) was an Italian-American cinematographer, five-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and co-winner once in 1949.IMDb Valentine awrds
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Biography

Trained in photography, Valentine moved to working in films in the 1920s and from 1924 became a chief cinematographer. Honing his craft by working on several

B-film A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature ...

s, his final years were spent on the cinematography for three

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films. Valentine was nominated for the Academy Award in 1937 for '' Wings Over Honolulu'', in 1938 for ''

Mad About Music ''Mad About Music'' is a 1938 American musical film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, and Gail Patrick. Based on a story by Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner, the film is about a girl at an exclusive boardin ...

'', in 1939 for '' First Love'', in 1940 for ''

Spring Parade ''Spring Parade'' is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. It is a remake of the 1934 film. Plot Based on a story by Ernst Marischka, the film is about a Hungarian woman who attends a Viennese ...

''. In 1949, on his fifth nomination, he won for '' Joan of Arc''.

Partial filmography

* ''

The Folly of Vanity ''The Folly of Vanity'' is a 1924 American silent drama film codirected by Maurice Elvey and Henry Otto and starring Billie Dove and Betty Blythe. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. The film is divided into two section ...

'' (1924) * '' The Star Dust Trail'' (1924) * ''

Curlytop ''Curlytop'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Shirley Mason, Wallace MacDonald, and Warner Oland. It is based on one of the short stories collected in ''Limehouse Nights'' by Thomas Burke. ...

'' (1924) * '' The Scarlet Honeymoon'' (1925) * '' 7th Heaven'' (1927) * ''

News Parade ''News Parade'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Nick Stuart, Sally Phipps and Brandon Hurst. The film portrays the adventures of a newsreel cameraman. Despite poor reviews and only a modest box office perf ...

'' (1928) * ''

Prep and Pep ''Prep and Pep'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by David Butler and written by John Stone and Malcolm Stuart Boylan. The film stars David Rollins, Nancy Drexel, John Darrow, E. H. Calvert, Frank Albertson, and Robert Peck. The film w ...

'' (1928) * '' Speakeasy'' (1929) * '' Protection'' (1929) * '' The Girl from Havana'' (1929) * ''

Crazy That Way ''Crazy That Way'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Kenneth MacKenna, Joan Bennett and Regis Toomey,Kellow, p. 466 and based on the play ''In Love With Love'' by Vincent Lawrence. Cast * Kenn ...

'' (1930) * '' Cheer Up and Smile'' (1930) * '' Soup to Nuts'' (1930) * ''

Are You There? ''Are You There?'' is a "farcical musical play in two acts" composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo (with interpolations by Lewis F. Muir) with a book by Albert de Courville and lyrics by Edgar Wallace. Also described as an "operette" by ''Variety'', it ...

'' (1931) * '' Night of Terror'' (1933) * '' Man Hunt'' (1933) * ''

What Price Innocence? ''What Price Innocence?'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film written and directed by, and co-starring, Willard Mack. Produced on a low budget for Columbia Pictures, it has been classed as an exploitation film and " sex hygiene film" because ...

'' (1933) * '' Jimmy and Sally'' (1933) * '' Myrt and Marge'' (1933) * ''

A Woman's Man ''A Woman's Man'' is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring John Halliday, Marguerite De La Motte and Wallace Ford.Langman p.247 The screenplay concerns a film star diva who storms off the film set and begins ...

'' (1934) * '' Three on a Honeymoon'' (1934) * '' Wild Gold'' (1934) * ''

Call It Luck ''Call It Luck'' is a 1934 American comedy film directed by James Tinling and written by Dudley Nichols and Lamar Trotti. The film stars Pat Paterson, Herbert Mundin, Charles Starrett, Gordon Westcott, Georgia Caine and Theodore von Eltz. The ...

'' (1934) * ''

Student Tour ''Student Tour'' is a 1934 American musical film directed by Charles Reisner, written by Ralph Spence and Philip Dunne, and starring Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Maxine Doyle, Phil Regan, Douglas Fowley and Nelson Eddy. It was release ...

'' (1934) * '' Alias Mary Dow'' (1935) * ''

Swellhead ''Swellhead'' is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Wallace Ford, Dickie Moore and Barbara Kent.Dick p.239 Synopsis A cocky baseball player is forever bragging about his success on the field, and off it w ...

'' (1935) * '' Doubting Thomas'' (1935) * ''

The Gay Deception ''The Gay Deception'' is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Francis Lederer and Frances Dee. Writers Stephen Morehouse Avery and Don Hartman were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. Plot Secretary Mirabel Miller (Frances Dee) win ...

'' (1935) * ''

Next Time We Love ''Next Time We Love'' is a 1936 American melodrama film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Ray Milland. The adapted screenplay was by Melville Baker, with an uncredited Preston Sturges and Doris A ...

'' (1936) * ''

The Moon's Our Home ''The Moon's Our Home'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter. It was adapted from a novel of the same name written by Faith Baldwin and first published in serial form in ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cosmopolitan'' magazine. ...

'' (1936) * ''

Two in a Crowd ''Two in a Crowd'' is a 1936 romantic comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Joan Bennett and Joel McCrea. It was released by Universal Pictures. The screenplay was written by Lewis R. Foster, Doris Malloy, and Earle Snell, based ...

'' (1936) * ''

The Man I Marry ''The Man I Marry'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Harry Clork and M. Coates Webster. The film stars Doris Nolan, Michael Whalen, Charles "Chic" Sale, Nigel Bruce, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Marjorie Gate ...

'' (1936) * '' Three Smart Girls'' (1936) * '' Wings over Honolulu'' (1937) * '' One Hundred Men and a Girl'' (1937) * ''

Merry-Go-Round of 1938 ''Merry-Go-Round of 1938'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and written by Monte Brice and A. Dorian Otvos. The film stars Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady, Mischa Auer, Joy Hodges, Louise Fazenda, John 'Du ...

'' (1937) * ''

'' (1938) * '' The Rage of Paris'' (1938) * ''

That Certain Age ''That Certain Age'' is a 1938 American musical film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Deanna Durbin and Melvyn Douglas. Based on a story by Aleen Leslie (Wetstein) that was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert, the film is about a dashing reporter who ...

'' (1938) * ''

Three Smart Girls Grow Up ''Three Smart Girls Grow Up'' is a 1939 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster, written by Felix Jackson and Bruce Manning, and starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, and Helen Parrish. Durbin and Grey reprise their roles from ''Three Sm ...

'' (1939) * '' First Love'' (1939) * '' My Little Chickadee'' (1940) * ''

It's a Date ''It's a Date'' is a 1940 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, and Walter Pidgeon. Based on a story by Jane Hall, Frederick Kohner, and Ralph Block, the film is about an aspiring actres ...

'' (1940) * ''

'' (1940) * '' One Night in the Tropics'' (1940) * '' Unfinished Business'' (1941) * ''

Appointment for Love ''Appointment for Love'' is a 1941 romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan. It was made by Universal Pictures. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound, Recording (Bernard ...

'' (1941) * '' Keep 'Em Flying'' (1941) * '' The Wolf Man'' (1941) * '' Saboteur'' (1942) * ''

Between Us Girls ''Between Us Girls'' is a 1942 American drama film directed by Henry Koster and starring Diana Barrymore, Kay Francis, Robert Cummings, John Boles, Andy Devine, and Scotty Beckett.

'' (1942) * ''

Shadow of a Doubt ''Shadow of a Doubt'' is a 1943 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy ...

'' (1943) * ''

Guest Wife ''Guest Wife'' is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood, written by Bruce Manning and John Klorer, and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, and Dick Foran John Nicholas "Dick" Foran (June 18, 1910 – August 10, 1979) was ...

'' (1945) * ''

Tomorrow Is Forever ''Tomorrow Is Forever'' is a 1946 black-and-white romance film directed by Irving Pichel, and starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent. It was also the film debut of Richard Long (actor), Richard Long and Natalie Wood. It wa ...

'' (1946) * ''

So Goes My Love ''So Goes My Love'' (released as ''A Genius in the Family'' in the UK) is an American 1946 comedy-drama film, produced by Universal Pictures. It is based on a true story, ''A Genius in the Family'', the memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim, which focuses ...

'' (1946) * ''

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'' (1946) * '' Lover Come Back'' (1946) * ''

Magnificent Doll ''Magnificent Doll'' is a 1946 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Ginger Rogers as Dolley Madison and David Niven as Aaron Burr. The supporting cast features Burgess Meredith as James Madison and Grandon Rhodes as Thomas ...

'' (1946) * ''

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'' (1947) * '' Sleep, My Love'' (1948) * '' Rope'' (1948) * '' Joan of Arc'' (1948) * ''

Bride for Sale ''Bride for Sale'' is a 1949 American romantic comedy film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by William D. Russell, and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Young and George Brent. The music score is by Frederick Hollander. Plot Nora ...

'' (1949)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valentine 1900 births 1949 deaths American people of Italian descent American cinematographers Best Cinematographer Academy Award winners Artists from New York City