American cinematographer
George S. Barnes
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Born
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1892-10-16
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October 16, 1892
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Died
| May 30, 1953
(1953-05-30)
(aged 60)
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Occupation
| Cinematographer
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Years active
| 1918?1953
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Spouses
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Helen Howell
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m.
1915, divorced)
Ethel Johnson
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m.
1923;
div.
1923)
Marie Namara
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m.
1926;
div.
1932)
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m.
1933;
div.
1936)
Elizabeth Wood
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m.
1936;
div.
1938)
Melba Marshall
(
m.
1939;
div.
1945)
Margaret Atkinson
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m.
1947)
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Children
| 4, including
Norman Powell
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George S. Barnes
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A.S.C.
(October 16, 1892 – May 30, 1953) was an American
cinematographer
active from the era of
silent films
to the early 1950s.
Biography
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Over the course of his career, Barnes was nominated for an
Academy Award
eight times, including for his work on
The Devil Dancer
(1927) with
Gilda Gray
and
Clive Brook
. He won once, for his work on the
Alfred Hitchcock
film
Rebecca
(1940). "Barnes’ photographic interpretation of
Rebecca
is the sort of thing to which his fellow cinematographers may point, as indeed they did in bestowing upon it the industry's premiere Award, as a complete example of what truly great camerawork can mean to a production".
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He was married seven times.
His first marriage was to Helen Howell in 1915. They eventually divorced and she would later become the first wife of
Frank Capra
. He was married to Ethel Johnson from 1923 to 1923, then to Marie Namara from 1926 to 1932.
He was married to
Joan Blondell
from 1933 to 1936 and filmed five of Blondell's Warner Bros. pictures. In fact, they met on
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
set in which she had the leading role. Their relationship is often said to have been intense. In an interview, Blondell stated that Barnes cured her from lying. Barnes was the biological father of Blondell's son, the television executive
Norman Powell
(born November 2, 1934), who was adopted in 1938 by Blondell's second husband, actor
Dick Powell
.
He was married to Elizabeth "Betty" Wood from 1936 to 1938; they had a son named George Carlton Barnes (born December 18, 1937).
Barnes had two daughters with Melba Marshall Kruger (pseudonym of Melba Mae Kruger), to whom he was married from 1939 to 1945: Barbara Ann Barnes (born April 16, 1940) and Georgene S. Barnes (born May 7, 1942).
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In 1947, he married for the final time, to Margaret Atkinson.
He died at the age of 60 in
Los Angeles
,
California
, after having worked on at least 142 films. He is interred at
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
in
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
.
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Filmography
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Awards and nominations
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At the 13th Awards Banquet of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Barnes was proclaimed the winner of the 1940 Academy Award for the year's best black-and-white cinematography in recognition of his skill in filming
Rebecca
. It was the film's only other win besides Best Picture.
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1928?1950
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1951?1975
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1976?2000
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2001?present
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