Leon Shamroy was educated at Cooper Union, City College of New York, and Columbia University.
15 Facts About Leon Shamroy
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Leon Shamroy became a cameraman in the 1920s when he filmed many of Charles Hutchinson's action films for Pathe.
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Leon Shamroy's first experimental film, The Last Moment, was a collaboration with the Hungarian director Paul Fejos.
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Around this time, Leon Shamroy went to Mexico where he worked for Robert Flaherty on a film called Acoma, the Sky City, a story about an ancient Indian tribe.
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Somehow, Leon Shamroy managed to survive the ordeal with his camera and 100,000 feet of film intact.
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Leon Shamroy traveled throughout Japan in 1930 and shot a lot of contraband footage.
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Leon Shamroy left for China where, again, he shot secret footage before continuing on to Manila.
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Leon Shamroy made films in places as far distant as the Dutch East Indies, Bali, Samarai, and Batavia.
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Leon Shamroy was hired to do the picture, The Young in Heart.
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Leon Shamroy was showing us she could sell emotions in pictures.
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Two years later Leon Shamroy photographed South Pacific in a new process called Todd-AO.
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Leon Shamroy was known for being a perfectionist, something that Fritz Lang and Henry Fonda found irritating during filming of You Only Live Once.
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Leon Shamroy once claimed that Lee Garmes "will never see the day that he's as good as I am and that goes for anybody in the motion picture business", implying that he saw himself as better than any other cinematographer.
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Leon Shamroy was married three times and had four children.
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Leon Shamroy then married Audrey Mason, daughter of E Mason Hopper, on February 2,1938.