Leon Shamroy – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel

Leon Shamroy - resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel

Leon Shamroy stayed at the Garden of Allah during the 1940s when he was on his to becoming one of 20th Century Fox’s leading cameraman. He was one of the first to use zoom lenses, and became of master of Technicolor and Cinemascope. Some of the films he shot are: Stormy Weather (1943), State Fair (1945), The Robe (1954), Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1955), The King and I (1956), South Pacific (1958), Cleopatra (1963), and Planet of the Apes (1968). As if that wasn’t enough, he also shot Marilyn Monroe’s screen test in 1946 and had this to say: “I got a cold chill. This girl had something I hadn’t seen since silent pictures. She had a kind of fantastic beauty like Gloria Swanson, when a movie star had to look beautiful, and she got sex on a piece of film like Jean Harlow.”

 

  • Martin Turnbull | Jun 28, 2013
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