Joseph Ruttenberg
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.
The Philadelphia Story
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Swan
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Kismet
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Love Has Many Faces
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Man on Fire
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Harlow
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A Day at the Races
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It Happened at the World's Fair
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Brigadoon
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Cause for Alarm!
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Fury
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Crossroads
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Presenting Lily Mars
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The Valley of Decision
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Gigi
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The Reluctant Debutante
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Invitation to the Dance
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Killer McCoy
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Tell No Tales
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
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Live, Love and Learn
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Three Godfathers
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Speedway
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Kind Lady
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Everybody Sing
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The People's Enemy
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Bachelor in Paradise
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A Global Affair
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The Miniver Story
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Julia Misbehaves
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Balalaika
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Julius Caesar
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The Prodigal
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Woman of the Year
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Desire Me
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Men Without Names
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B.F.'s Daughter
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The Subterraneans
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Green Mansions
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Small Town Girl
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The Great Waltz
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The Hook
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Side Street
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Two Loves
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The Prisoner of Zenda
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Who's Got the Action?
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BUtterfield 8
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Comrade X
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Waterloo Bridge
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Broadway Melody of 1940
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The Cocoanuts
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The Great Caruso
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Gaslight
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If Winter Comes
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
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The Great Diamond Robbery
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
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Double Wedding
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Man Hunt
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The Shopworn Angel
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My Friend the Devil
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The Thief
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
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Big City
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The Bribe
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Mrs. Miniver
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School for Wives
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Until They Sail
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Because You're Mine
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The Women
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The Oscar
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That Forsyte Woman
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Summer Stock
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Three Comrades
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The Magnificent Yankee
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The Ice Follies of 1939
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The First Hundred Years
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On Borrowed Time
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Everybody Likes Music
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Nostradamus and the Queen
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Sylvia
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Too Young to Kiss
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Let's Ask Nostradamus
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Madame Curie
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The Struggle
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Bubbling Over
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Woman in the Dark
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A Fallen Idol
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Adventure
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Two-Faced Woman
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Mrs. Parkington
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Her Twelve Men
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Piccadilly Jim
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Mad Holiday
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Young Man with Ideas
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Ziegfeld Girl
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Interrupted Melody
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Because You're Mine
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Ada
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Random Harvest
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The Painted Madonna
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The Tiger's Cub
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My Little Sister
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Know Your Men
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Who Are My Parents?
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Does It Pay?
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A Virgin Paradise
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The Fool
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The Vintage
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The Town That Forgot God
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The Mountain Woman
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Beyond Price
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Thou Shalt Not Steal
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