Gregg Toland

...object in a scene to remain in focus, which provided a more realistic sense of action, Shields said, adding that cinematographer Gregg Toland greatly contributed to the film's success. The movie became one of the first artful interpretations...

In this article: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, H.G. Wells, Macbeth, Mercury Theatre, and War of the Worlds

...range; Toland shot his scenes in between f:8 and f:16. Optical print shots and in-camera composites on ''Citizen Kane'' Gregg Toland collaborated on a number of shots with Linwood G. Dunn. Although these looked like they were using deep...

In this article: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Linwood G. Dunn, The Long Voyage Home, John Ford, Hollywood, and Suicide

...with the director. Welles told Graver that only one other person had ever called him to say they wanted to work with him - and that was Gregg Toland who worked with Welles on Citizen Kane. Soon after, Welles and Graver started work on the...

In this article: Gary Graver, Orson Welles, B-movies, Citizen Kane, Robert McCallum, The Other Side of the Wind, Hollywood, AVN Award, Oscar, and Leukemia

...started on Mad Love on May 6, 1935. Chester Lyons was assigned as the cinematographer for the film. Freund insisted on Gregg Toland, who he did get for a reported "8 days of additional photography". Actress Frances Drake recalled difficulty...

In this article: Mad Love, Peter Lorre, Karl Freund, Pauline Kael, and The Hands of Orlac

...The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937), with their images of drought, flood, and other rural calamities, helped Gregg Toland (the cinematographer) and John Ford (the director) give authenticity to their 1940 screen...

In this article: Depression, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Woody Allen, Dorothea Lange, Anxiety, Individualism, Dancing in the Dark, and W.W. Norton & Co.

...Gustaf Molander. The music was by Robert Russell Bennett, Max Steiner, Heinz Provost, and Christian Sinding. The cinematography was by Gregg Toland who replaced It stars Leslie Howard as a (married) virtuoso violinist who falls in love with...

In this article: Intermezzo, Leslie Howard, Citizen Kane, Ingrid Bergman, Oscar, Honeysuckle Rose, Robert Russell Bennett, Christian Sinding, and David O. Selznick

...Samuel Goldwyn's bet that moviegoers would go for Bronte if you cast beauties like Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon and hired Gregg Toland to shoot it. The all-female, all-star "The Women,'' which puts the 2008 remake to shame. "Destry...

In this article: Gone with the Wind, Only Angels Have Wings, Thomas Mitchell, Oscar, Stagecoach, Dark Victory, RKO, Frank Capra, and Bette Davis

...it's not as high art but as elevated craft. The combined work of two of Goldwyn's below-the-line stalwarts the cinematographer Gregg Toland and the production designer Richard Day results in some of the most carefully coordinated Technicolor...

In this article: Samuel Goldwyn, The Goldwyn Follies, Sonja Henie, George Balanchine, William A. Seiter, Vera Zorina, Ira Gershwin, and Hollywood

...and the British illustrator Ralph Steadman, whose ink-meets-blender drawings did as much for the spirit of Gonzo as cinematographer Gregg Toland did for "Citizen Kane." But another retelling of the death of the '60s dream (cue "Piece of My...

In this article: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Citizen Kane, Jimmy Carter, Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side, Pat Buchanan, New York Post, and Piece of My Heart

...filmmakers is unmistakable. Director of photography Janusz Kaminski ("Schindler's List") composes the characters within the frame like Gregg Toland in an old William Wyler movie, with everything crisply outlined in deep focus. It's an homage...

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