COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Photographs of movie scenes, crews, casts, and directors of the many motion pictures June filmed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and other companies; photos of June; three certificates (1932, 1935, 1957) of nominations for the cinematography award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; and personal items. Included are photos of Myrna Loy, Esther Williams, Lana Turner, Jean Harlow, Robert Montgomery, William Powell, the Marx Brothers, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Hedy Lamarr, Rosalind Russell, June Allyson, Dick Powell, Mary Pickford, Clark Gable, and other actors, actresses, and film makers.
Dates
- 1915-1958.
Creator
- June, Ray, 1898-1958. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Cinematographer, nicknamed “the ace cameraman of MGM,” and singled out in 1939 by pioneer film historian Lewis Jacobs as one of America's finest cinematographers. Born in Ithaca, N.Y., June attended Columbia University (evidently without graduating). He served as a cameraman in the US Army Signal Corps in World War I, and then moved to Hollywood after the war to embark on a career in cinematography. In the 1920s, he was the cameraman for a “Rin-Tin-Tin” film, and throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he continued to turn out works of distinction at both Goldwyn and MGM studios. He was nominated for an Academy Award three times, in 1932, 1935, and 1957.
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Photographs of movie scenes, crews, casts, and directors of the many motion pictures June filmed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and other companies.
Physical Description
Photographs
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Allyson, June, 1917-2006.
- Cinematographers -- United States.
- Cinematography.
- Gable, Clark, 1901-1960.
- Garland, Judy.
- Harlow, Jean, 1911-1937.
- Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000.
- Loy, Myrna, 1905-1993.
- Marx Brothers
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Montgomery, Robert, 1904-1981.
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- California -- Los Angeles.
- Photographs.
- Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979.
- Powell, Dick.
- Powell, William, 1892-1984.
- Rin-Tin-Tin, (Dog)
- Rooney, Mickey.
- Russell, Rosalind.
- Swanson, Gloria, 1897-1983.
- Turner, Lana, 1921-1995.
- Williams, Esther.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2012
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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