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Charles Edgar Schoenbaum is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 28 april 1893 at Los Angeles (USA)

Charles Edgar Schoenbaum

Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
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Birth name Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Nationality USA
Birth 28 april 1893 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 21 january 1951 (at 57 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)

Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (1893–1951) was a popular cinematographer whose career began in 1917 and ended with his abrupt death in 1951.

He worked on over 100 films, including several of the Lassie films in the late 40s. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1949 for his work on Little Women.

Biography

Charles Edgar Schoenbaum débute comme chef opérateur sur Les Conquérants (avec Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton et Geraldine Farrar), film muet de Cecil B. DeMille, sorti en 1917. Au long de sa carrière, il collabore à cent-onze films américains (y compris des westerns), dont une cinquantaine muets. Ses trois derniers sortent en 1950, dont Stars in My Crown de Jacques Tourneur, avec Joel McCrea et Ellen Drew.

Un de ses films les plus connus est Les Quatre Filles du docteur March de Mervyn LeRoy (version de 1949, avec June Allyson et Mary Astor), qui lui vaut en 1950 une nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie.

Outre les réalisateurs déjà cités, il assiste notamment John Francis Dillon (ex. : Sally en 1929, avec Alexander Gray et Joe E. Brown), Lionel Barrymore (Le Chant du bandit en 1930, avec Laurel et Hardy), Robert Florey (La Fille de Shanghai en 1937, avec Anna May Wong et Philip Ahn), Robert Z. Leonard (ex. : Cynthia en 1947, avec Elizabeth Taylor et George Murphy), ou encore Fred M. Wilcox (Le Maître de Lassie en 1948, avec Edmund Gwenn et Lumsden Hare), entre autres.

Best films

Little Women (1949)
(Director of Photography)
The Rogue Song (1930)
(Director of Photography)
Sally (1930)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor
(13 films)
Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(12 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (38 films)

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Cameraman

Duchess of Idaho, 1h38
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films
Actors Van Johnson, Esther Williams, John Lund, Paula Raymond, Amanda Blake, Mel Tormé
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.145443.145443.145443.145443.14544
Christine Riverton Duncan (Esther Williams) attempts to play matchmaker for her lovelorn friend Ellen (Paula Raymond) by pursuing Douglas J. Morrissen, Jr. (John Lund), the man Ellen loves, all the way to Idaho. There, Christine decides to play a joke on Douglas. After boarding his train to Sun Valley, Christine wins the man's affections and then shocks him with hints that she expects a commitment. Once she's in Sun Valley, however, things become problematic when Christine falls in love with hotel bandleader Dick Layne (Van Johnson). During her time in Sun Valley, Christine wins the title of "Duchess of Idaho" in a dance contest.
Stars in My Crown, 1h29
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, James Mitchell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73% 3.691623.691623.691623.691623.69162
Shortly after the American Civil War, preacher Josiah Gray (Joel McCrea) arrives in the town of Walesburg. He heads straight for the saloon to give his first sermon. When the patrons laugh at him, he pulls out two guns, cowing the men into listening.
The Outriders, 1h33
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Claude Jarman Jr., Ramón Novarro, Ted de Corsia
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.053143.053143.053143.053143.05314
With the Civil War nearing an end, rebel soldiers Will Owen, Jess Wallace and Clint Priest are released in Mississippi from a Union stockade. A bandit leader and Confederate sympathizer, Keeley, recruits them to join a wagon train run by Don Chaves that is carrying a million dollars' worth of gold billion. Colonel Penny Rebecca Nalls a new Confederate officer her one Confederate deserter help
Little Women, 2h1
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about families, Political films, Children's films
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Peter Lawford
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.6010253.6010253.6010253.6010253.601025
In the small town of Concord, Massachusetts, during the Civil War, the March sisters — Meg (Janet Leigh), Jo (June Allyson), Amy (Elizabeth Taylor) and Beth (Margaret O'Brien) — live with their mother in a state of genteel poverty, their father having lost the family's fortune to an unscrupulous businessman several years earlier. While Mr. March (Leon Ames) serves in the Union Army, Mrs. March (Mary Astor), affectionately referred to as "Marmee" by her daughters, holds the family together and teaches the girls the importance of giving to those less fortunate than themselves, especially during the upcoming Christmas season. Though the spoiled and vain Amy often bemoans the family's lack of material wealth and social status, Jo, an aspiring writer, keeps everyone entertained with her stories and plays, while the youngest March, the shy and sensitive Beth, accompanies Jo's productions on an out-of-tune piano.
Challenge to Lassie, 1h16
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Geraldine Brooks, Pal, Sara Allgood, Alan Webb
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.0934453.0934453.0934453.0934453.093445
Jock Gray (Donald Crisp) raises his collie Lassie to be an extraordinary sheep dog and companion. When he is beaten to death by robbers after he retires, Lassie keeps vigil over his grave and refuses to let anyone else take ownership of her. However, the law requires that all dogs be leashed and licensed by a legal owner. With no owner to pay her license and her only "home" being the church graveyard, Lassie faces an uncertain future.
Hills of Home, 1h37
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Edmund Gwenn, Pal, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2944753.2944753.2944753.2944753.294475
Dr. William MacLure (Edmund Gwenn) a Scottish doctor, adopts Lassie, who has an unnatural aversion to water. The Dr. tries to cure Lassie of her fears, but she remains water-shy.
Summer Holiday, 1h33
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Mickey Rooney, Walter Huston, Gloria DeHaven, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.851432.851432.851432.851432.85143
Au début du XX siècle, dans une petite ville du Connecticut. Le jeune Richard Miller, qui vit dans un quartier de la classe moyenne avec sa famille, est amoureux de Muriel, sa voisine. Mais le père de cette dernière ne voit pas d'un très bon œil cet amour de jeunesse. En effet, il trouve que le jeune garçon, avec ses idées révolutionnaires, a une très mauvais influence sur sa fille...
Cynthia
Cynthia (1947)
, 1h38
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, Mary Astor, S.Z. Sakall, Gene Lockhart, Jimmy Lydon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.0983453.0983453.0983453.0983453.098345
Bad Bascomb
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish, Joseph Crehan, Frances Rafferty
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.3901753.3901753.3901753.3901753.390175
"Bad" Bascomb (Beery) is a notorious outlaw wanted by federal marshals after outwitting every group sent to capture him. He and fellow bandit Bart Ramsay (Naish), a cold-blooded killer, have again eluded the marshalls by joining a Mormon wagon train heading to Utah. They pretend to be helpful, and Bascomb becomes fond of an admiring little girl played by O'Brien. Beery eventually distances himself from the other thief and saves the wagon train from an attack by Indians, before being taken captive by the law at the end of the movie.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood, 1h23
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Rags Ragland, Lucille Ball, Bob Haymes, Jean Porter
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.146863.146863.146863.146863.14686
A barber, Buzz Curtis (Bud Abbott), and a porter, Abercrombie (Lou Costello), work for a Hollywood salon. They are sent to the office of agent Norman Royce (Warner Anderson) to give him a haircut and a shoeshine. On the way there they run into former co-worker Claire Warren (Frances Rafferty), who is about to star as the lead in a new musical. At the same time her co-star Gregory LeMaise (Carleton G. Young), whose fame is dwindling, arrives and invites her to join him at lunch. She declines, which angers him.
Son of Lassie, 1h42
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Peter Lawford, Pal, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, Donald Curtis
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1940153.1940153.1940153.1940153.194015
In Yorkshire, England, at the estate of the Duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce), the British Army converted the grounds into a training camp for war dogs. The camp is placed under the supervision of Sam Carraclough (Donald Crisp), the kennel caretaker, who immediately begins the process of selecting the best dogs for training, including Laddie, the young pup of the champion collie, Lassie. Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford), now an adult, joins the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. Departing for training school, he is forced to leave behind his dog Lassie and her pup, Laddie.
Hi Diddle Diddle, 1h12
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe, Billie Burke, Walter Kingsford
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3434653.3434653.3434653.3434653.343465
Young Janie Prescott is about to be married to her sailor sweetheart, Sonny Phyffe, but the wedding is delayed because the ship hasn't arrived to its dock. The wedding ceremony has to be pushed forward, and is combined with a christening ceremony that is to be performed by the same pastor. Sonny's ship eventually docks and when he meets his father, small-time swindler Hector, before the wedding, he is given a corsage to pass on to Janie. Hector has actually stolen the corsage from Sonny's stepmother, opera singer Genya Smetana. Hector isn't aware of that the corsage has real diamonds in it, and it is a gift from the opera where Genya works. Unfortunately the wedding is yet again delayed when it is discovered that Peter Carrington III, Janie's previous suitor, has managed to lose all of Mrs. Prescott's money on bad investments and a roulette table at the 59 Club. The family is now broke. Sonny then tells Janie he doesn't care about her money and the wedding proceeds as planned, after Sonny agrees to let his father help Mrs. Prescott get her money back.
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, 1h25
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Escroquerie
Actors Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson, Herman Bing
Roles Additional Photography
Rating71% 3.5960953.5960953.5960953.5960953.596095
Nicole de Loiselle, jeune aristocrate française, et Michael Brandon, millionaire sept fois divorcé, forment le duo infernal de cette comédie loufoque. Cédant à la pression familiale, elle accepte de l'épouser, avant de tout faire pour obtenir un divorce et, enfin, de se raviser à nouveau. Les deux personnages sont sans cesse placés dans des situations cocasses.
Daughter of Shanghai, 1h2
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.286283.286283.286283.286283.28628
Lan Ying Lin and government agent Kim Lee battle alien smugglers.