Joseph Ruttenberg

出生 : 1889-07-04, Berdychiv, Zhytomyr oblast, Ukraine

死亡 : 1983-05-01

略歴

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a Russian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer. Ruttenberg was accomplished at winning accolades. At MGM, Ruttenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography ten times, winning four. In addition, he won the 1954 Golden Globe Award for his camera work on the film Brigadoon. Born into a Jewish family in Berdychiv Zhytomyr oblast, Ukraine , Joseph Ruttenberg emigrated to the United States, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts on 7 January 1895. As a young man he went to work at the Boston Globe newspaper as a photojournalist but left in 1915 to accept a job with the Fox Film Corporation in New York City to train as a cinematographer. Two years later he was behind the camera for his first silent film, The Painted Madonna (1917), which marked the start of a remarkably successful career In the late 1920s Ruttenberg went to work for Paramount Pictures in New York. His first talkie assignment was The Struggle (1931), D.W. Griffith's final film. Then in 1934 Ruttenberg signed on with MGM, moving to Hollywood where he was invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers. Joseph Ruttenberg retired from MGM in 1968 and died in Los Angeles on May 1, 1983.

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Speedway
Director of Photography
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
Harlow
Director of Photography
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Love Has Many Faces
Director of Photography
A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
Sylvia
Cinematography
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Director of Photography
TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.
It Happened at the World's Fair
Director of Photography
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.
The Hook
Director of Photography
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
Who's Got the Action?
Director of Photography
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
Bachelor in Paradise
Director of Photography
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S. for back taxes, he needs to write another book fast, to pay them. His publisher decides a book about life in the American suburbs would be a hit and settles him into Paradise Village. One bachelor plus lonely housewives equals many angry husbands.
Ada
Director of Photography
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.
Two Loves
Director of Photography
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
BUtterfield 8
Director of Photography
The story about Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, who falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.
The Subterraneans
Director of Photography
A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Director of Photography
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Green Mansions
Director of Photography
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.
The Reluctant Debutante
Director of Photography
Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent, welcome to London Jimmy's 17-year-old daughter, Jane. Jane is from Jimmy's first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the step-mother she has never met. While visiting Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists. Difficulties range from Jane's apathy to being placed on the marriage block, the determined efforts of Sheila's cousin, Mabel Claremont, to win wealthy David Fenner for her debutante daughter Clarissa, and Jane's attraction to David Parkson, an American drummer who plays in the orchestra at the coming-out balls.
Gigi
Director of Photography
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
Until They Sail
Director of Photography
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Man on Fire
Director of Photography
Bitter over their divorce, a wealthy businessman (Bing Crosby in a rare non-singing, unsympathetic role) prevents his ex-wife from seeing their child. She then takes him to custody court, and a judge tries to determine what will be best for the child.
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Director of Photography
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Invitation to the Dance
Director of Photography
Three completely different stories are told through dance.
The Swan
Director of Photography
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
Kismet
Director of Photography
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
The Prodigal
Director of Photography
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.
Interrupted Melody
Director of Photography
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.
Brigadoon
Director of Photography
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
Her Twelve Men
Director of Photography
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
The Great Diamond Robbery
Director of Photography
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Director of Photography
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
Nostradamus and the Queen
Cinematography
An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and herself.
Let's Ask Nostradamus
Director of Photography
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.
Julius Caesar
Director of Photography
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
Small Town Girl
Director of Photography
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.
The Prisoner of Zenda
Director of Photography
An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
Because You're Mine
Camera Operator
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
Young Man with Ideas
Director of Photography
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Too Young to Kiss
Director of Photography
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
Kind Lady
Director of Photography
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.
The Great Caruso
Director of Photography
Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to one, because he sings; to Dorothy's, because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel chested, loud, emotional, unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that "the man does not have the voice, the voice has the man": he cannot be places he wants to be, because he must be elsewhere singing, including the day his mother dies. Throughout, Mario Lanza and stars from the Met sing.
Cause for Alarm!
Director of Photography
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
The Magnificent Yankee
Director of Photography
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Miniver Story
Director of Photography
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.
Side Street
Director of Photography
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
That Forsyte Woman
Director of Photography
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
The Bribe
Director of Photography
United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.
Julia Misbehaves
Director of Photography
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
B.F.'s Daughter
Director of Photography
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
Killer McCoy
Director of Photography
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
Desire Me
Director of Photography
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Adventure
Cinematography
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
The Valley of Decision
Director of Photography
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Mrs. Parkington
Director of Photography
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
ガス燈
Director of Photography
イングリッド・バーグマンがアカデミー主演女優賞を受賞した、ジョージ・キューカー監督のサスペンス映画の古典的名作。美術・装置賞も受賞。共演はシャルル・ボワイエ。 叔母を何者かに殺されて傷心のポーラは住み慣れたロンドンを離れ、イタリアで暮らすことに。やがて月日が流れ、結婚したポーラは、夫と共に相続した叔母の家で新婚生活を始める。ところが、ロンドンに戻ったとたん、次々と不可解なことが起こり、ポーラは精神的に追い詰められていく…。主演女優のイングリッド・バーグマンにオスカーをもたらした、サスペンス映画の古典的名作。アカデミー美術・装置賞も受賞。
Madame Curie
Director of Photography
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Presenting Lily Mars
Director of Photography
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
心の旅路
Cinematography
ポーラは精神病院から脱走してきた男と出会う。記憶障害と軽い言語障害があった彼をスミシィと呼び、やがて結婚し幸せな生活を築いた彼ら。しかし、スミシィが事故で頭を強打してしまい……。2回の記憶喪失に翻弄される男と女の切ないラヴ・ストーリー。
Crossroads
Director of Photography
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
ミニヴァー夫人
Director of Photography
第二次世界大戦の戦意高揚映画として撮影され、戦争の荒波に巻き込まれながら気丈に生きていくミニヴァー夫人とその一家の人々の姿を感動的に描き、アカデミー作品賞、監督賞、主演女優賞など6部門を受賞した名作。 1939年のロンドン郊外。明るく美しいミニヴァー夫人は、建築技師の夫と3人の子供たちと幸福な日々を送っていた。しかし、第2次世界大戦にイギリスが参戦し、長男ヴィンや使用人が出征、残されたミニヴァー夫人たちにも戦火が…。
Woman of the Year
Director of Photography
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Two-Faced Woman
Director of Photography
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Director of Photography
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Ziegfeld Girl
Director of Photography
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Comrade X
Director of Photography
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
フィラデルフィア物語
Director of Photography
フィラデルフィアの上流社会の令嬢トレイシーはジョージとの結婚を目前に控えていた。それを知って、二年前に彼女の我がままとプライドの高さに耐えかねて出ていったデクスターが、雑誌記者のコナーとインブリを連れてやって来る。実は邸の主人は浮気相手のところへ行っていて式にも呼ばれていない有様で、体面を重んじる一家は、記者の手前、何とか取り繕う。トレイシーに未練のあるデクスターは静かなる結婚妨害を試みるが……。
哀愁
Director of Photography
空襲下のロンドン。ウォータールー橋で出会った将校クローニンとバレリーナのマイラは恋に落ち、結婚を誓う。だが新聞で男の戦死が伝えられると、マイラは身を落としてしまう……。ヴィヴィアン・リー主演による悲恋ストーリー。
Broadway Melody of 1940
Director of Photography
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Balalaika
Director of Photography
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
The Women
Cinematography
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
On Borrowed Time
Director of Photography
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Tell No Tales
Cinematography
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
The Ice Follies of 1939
Director of Photography
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
The Great Waltz
Director of Photography
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
The Shopworn Angel
Director of Photography
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.
Three Comrades
Director of Photography
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
The First Hundred Years
Director of Photography
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Live, Love and Learn
Cinematography
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
Double Wedding
Still Photographer
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Big City
Director of Photography
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
マルクス一番乗り
Director of Photography
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Mad Holiday
Director of Photography
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Piccadilly Jim
Director of Photography
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
Fury
Director of Photography
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Three Godfathers
Director of Photography
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
Man Hunt
Director of Photography
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Men Without Names
Director of Photography
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Woman in the Shadows
Director of Photography
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
Bubbling Over
Director of Photography
In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up... but announcing lunch gets him up pretty fast. She's also saddled with a bevy of his lazy relatives. Four more come by and sing as a quartet. After the wife learns they had been traveling men, she advises them to keep traveling and kicks them out...
The Struggle
Director of Photography
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
The Cocoanuts
Camera Operator
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
If Winter Comes
Cinematography
Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold-hearted wife Mabel company while he goes off to war. When he returns home from the front wounded, he finds that Mabel has fired Effie, who shows up at Mark's door with her baby, having no place to go. Mark takes her in, but Mabel leaves him when the town shuns him for what they believe is going on with Mark and Effie. Matters are further complicated when Effie, driven to desperation, commits an unspeakable act that results in Mark having a nervous breakdown--and then things get worse.
My Friend the Devil
Director of Photography
Silent romantic drama...
The Thief
Director of Photography
Silent film comedy drama..
A Fallen Idol
Director of Photography
The Hawaiian Princess Laone's love for Keith Parrish is thwarted by social pressure. After being persuaded to refuse Mr. Parrish's proposal she attempts suicide, but is rescued by her lover. After Parrish leaves town to take care of his father, Princess Laone is told he has abandoned her, and she departs for Hawaii on board the yacht of the dastardly wealthy playboy Stephen Brainard. Princess Laone is forced into having sex with Brainard by being threatened with gang rape by his crew.