Merritt B. Gerstad
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- July 5, 1900
- Died
- March 1, 1974 (aged 73)
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
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
Filmography
Conflict
Movie · Director of Photography
Rhapsody in Blue
Movie · Additional Photography
Watch on the Rhine
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Night in New Orleans
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Tom, Dick and Harry
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The House Across the Bay
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Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
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Slightly Honorable
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Winter Carnival
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Eternally Yours
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Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
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She Married an Artist
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Seventh Heaven
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Souls at Sea
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Strike Me Pink
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The Magnificent Brute
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The Great Ziegfeld
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One Rainy Afternoon
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
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A Night at the Opera
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Social Register
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Imitation of Life
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Beloved
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
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Only Yesterday
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Goldie Gets Along
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The Mayor of Hell
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Freaks
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Payment Deferred
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Strange Justice
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Night World
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The Great Lover
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Flying High
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Guilty Hands
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
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Daybreak
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West of Broadway
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Call of the Flesh
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Remote Control
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A Lady to Love
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Our Blushing Brides
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Every Woman's Longing
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Those Three French Girls
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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The Thirteenth Chair
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Devil-May-Care
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Navy Blues
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A Man's Man
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Wonder of Women
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
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The Unknown
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Mockery
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London After Midnight
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The Ice Flood
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The Mad Whirl
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The Man from Wyoming
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Fight and Win
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The Galloping Ace
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The Poor Simp
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