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Merritt B. Gerstad

Born 5 July 1900 · Chicago, Illinois, USA · Died 1 March 1974

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Merritt B. Gerstad (5 July 1900, Chicago, Illinois – 1 March 1974, Laguna Beach, California) was an American cinematographer of silent and early sound films. After beginning as a cinematographer on films for Universal, he worked for MGM, working with director Tod Browning on (the lost) London After Midnight (1927) and Freaks (1932), and Sam Wood on the Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera (1935). Later he was at Warner Bros. for Watch on the Rhine (1943) starring Bette Davis, Conflict (1945) with Humphrey Bogart in the lead, and the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), his last credit.

Known for

Freaks
A Night at the Opera
The Unknown
The Great Ziegfeld
Imitation of Life
Conflict
Watch on the Rhine
The Mayor of Hell
London After Midnight
Eternally Yours
Tom, Dick and Harry
Our Blushing Brides
Conflict
Watch on the Rhine
Night in New Orleans
Tom, Dick and Harry
The House Across the Bay
Slightly Honorable
Winter Carnival
Eternally Yours
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
She Married an Artist
Seventh Heaven
Souls at Sea
Strike Me Pink
The Magnificent Brute
The Great Ziegfeld
One Rainy Afternoon
The Luckiest Girl in the World
A Night at the Opera
Social Register
Imitation of Life
Beloved
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Only Yesterday
Goldie Gets Along
The Mayor of Hell
Freaks
Payment Deferred
Strange Justice
Night World
The Great Lover
Flying High
Guilty Hands
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Daybreak
West of Broadway
Call of the Flesh
Remote Control
A Lady to Love
Our Blushing Brides
Every Woman's Longing
Those Three French Girls
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Thirteenth Chair
Devil-May-Care
Navy Blues
A Man's Man
Wonder of Women
Alias Jimmy Valentine
The Unknown
Mockery
London After Midnight
The Mad Whirl
The Man from Wyoming
Fight and Win
The Galloping Ace
The Poor Simp
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