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Harold G. "Hal" Rosson, A.S.C. (April 6, 1895 –
September 6, 1988) was an American cinematographer who worked during the early
and classical Hollywood cinema. He is best known for his work on the 1939
fantasy film The Wizard of Oz.
Harold Rosson began his film career in 1908 as an actor at
the Vitagraph Studios in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn. He became the assistant
to Irvin Willat at the Mark Dintenfass Studios. In 1912 he divided his time as
an office boy in a stockbrokers firm and as and assistant, extra, and handyman
at the Famous Players Studio in New York. His first film for Famous Players was
David Harum (1915).
In December 1914, Rosson moved to California and joined
Metro Pictures. During World War I, he served in the United States Army. After
his demobilization, he went to work on the Marion Davies film The Dark Star. He
was offered a contract with the Davies Company. In 1920 he was signed by Mary
Pickford working primarily with her brother Jack Pickford. In the 1930s, Rosson
signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed the photography for some of the
studios most popular films including Treasure Island (1934), The Wizard of Oz,
Duel in the Sun, and Singin' in the Rain (1952). In 1936, Rosson and fellow
cinematographer W. Howard Greene were awarded an Honorary Oscar for the color
cinematography of the 1936 David O. Selznick production The Garden of Allah. Rosson
later said it was the first time he attempted to film in color.
After a very long and successful career in Hollywood, Rosson
retired in 1958. He briefly came out of retirement in 1966 for the Howard Hawks
film El Dorado starring John Wayne.
Rosson was married twice, with both marriages ending in divorce,
and had no children. While shooting the film Bombshell in 1933, actress Jean
Harlow proposed to Rosson. The two had worked together previously on Red-Headed
Woman, Dinner at Eight, Hold Your Man and Red Dust and had struck up a
friendship. On September 17, 1933, the two were married in Yuma, Arizona. In an
interview with Leicester Wagner, Harlow recalled the she and Rosson grew closer
after the death of her second husband, Paul Bern, and he encouraged her to go
out and socialize. Rosson and Harlow separated in May 1934 with Harlow charging
that Rosson was "rude, sullen and irritable". She was granted a
divorce in March 1935.
On October 11, 1936, Rosson married socialite Yvonne Crellin
in Beverly Hills. They divorced in June 1945.
On September 6, 1988, Rosson died at his home in Palm Beach,
Florida. He is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Most Popular Harold Rosson Trailers
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15 August 1939
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives.
19 March 1927
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man.
10 April 1952
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
05 November 1927
Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and conspires with Sam Hardman to steal the town's cattle during a rodeo.
19 January 1925
Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company.
30 June 1933
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up.
28 October 1924
A wealthy New Yorker falls in love with a burglar's sister.
21 July 1924
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
28 March 1945
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
09 April 1921
Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.
30 April 1938
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea.
18 June 1953
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel.
30 September 1927
Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets.
10 December 1916
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice.
25 March 1923
Although Susan Branch is herself without finances, she has many wealthy friends who supply her with clothes and gay times.
01 February 1925
Madame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents in London.
18 November 1931
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
02 February 1917
Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.
20 June 1926
Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift.
12 April 1955
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
23 December 1923
When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge properly.
21 January 1923
Ruth Rutherford, crippled as a result of being thrown from a horse, breaks her engagement to Lord Wallington.
21 October 1923
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her.
17 December 1966
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
02 July 1937
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
01 April 1943
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
27 September 1926
Marcia, a pretty young girl, goes to work as a model for a lecherous dress-shop owner. She resists his advances, despite his giving her expensive gifts.
12 May 1933
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
12 September 1956
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness.
14 March 1931
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
25 June 1937
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks.
22 March 1932
James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich.
08 December 1949
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
31 December 1946
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
06 October 1954
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
25 September 1953
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
06 September 1940
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
20 March 1953
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park.
18 September 1954
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
13 October 1929
The picture is based on the 1920 novel, Norden For Lov og Ret, by Ejnar Mikkelsen, set in Nome, Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 and 1899.
24 October 1952
Cattle baron Devereaux Burke is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic.
17 April 1941
An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
22 October 1932
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police.
12 May 1950
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
26 March 1953
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
08 November 1926
Dr. Josef Rittenhaus, a popular young society physician of Vienna, at the behest of his friend Waldstein, goes to consider a proposal by Countess von Nessa to donate a site and funds for the erection of a new sanitarium.
25 December 1957
The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.
25 June 1932
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
23 December 1948
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
06 August 1932
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive.
29 April 1948
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism.
25 August 1933
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
26 September 1946
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
01 December 1942
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life.
15 October 1937
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
08 August 1931
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
15 November 1944
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
14 May 1927
A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.
11 April 1930
Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is billeted in the Parisot home while waiting to see her husband.
01 August 1931
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
