George J. Folsey Trailers
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George Joseph Folsey, A.S.C. (July 2, 1898 – November 1, 1988) was an American cinematographer who worked on 162 films between 1919 and his retirement in 1976. Born in Brooklyn, Folsey was hired by Jesse Louis Lasky to work as an office boy in his newly formed Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in New York City. He earned his first screen credit for His Bridal Night in 1919. Leading lady Alice Brady was so satisfied with the way he photographed her she offered him a contract to shoot all her films. He worked for both Associated First National and Paramount Astoria Studios before relocating to Hollywood and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he spent the bulk of his career.
Folsey's many credits include The Letter, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, The Great Ziegfeld, A Guy Named Joe, The White Cliffs of Dover, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Clock, The Harvey Girls, Adam's Rib, A Life of Her Own, Million Dollar Mermaid, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Cobweb, Cash McCall, and The Balcony. For television he served as director of photography for various episodes of the ABC series The Fugitive and an NBC special starring figure skater Peggy Fleming, for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming.
Folsey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography thirteen times but never won. Eight months before his death he was honored with the first Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Society of Cinematographers, for which he served as President in 1956-57.
Folsey's son George Jr. is a director/producer/editor.
Folsey died in Santa Monica, California.
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11 May 1944
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance.
11 August 1939
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
04 October 1935
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
09 March 1949
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team.
01 September 1950
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
24 September 1930
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint.
31 January 1941
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
24 December 1943
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
07 December 1924
When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper".
20 January 1960
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit.
25 December 1927
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur.
11 October 1940
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues.
26 August 1938
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries.
30 April 1954
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
01 May 1942
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning.
06 September 1957
Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
22 June 1930
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs.
24 October 1958
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
23 March 1956
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years.
18 November 1938
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
16 June 1933
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
20 March 1958
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.
26 May 1950
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
15 January 1947
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William.
03 May 1930
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.
23 April 1959
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual.
17 March 1929
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
28 November 1944
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St.
25 May 1945
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
01 July 1972
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
27 December 1949
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.
21 January 1938
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
31 August 1934
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him.
08 August 1930
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs.
23 May 1929
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
27 November 1951
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals.
07 December 1929
A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits.
25 December 1946
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl.
13 May 1938
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
08 June 1934
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
19 February 1937
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
17 February 1939
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
19 April 1935
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
06 December 1935
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more.
07 September 1935
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
12 September 1957
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
07 October 1929
This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in mom's footsteps.
06 April 1934
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party.
22 December 1930
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting.
14 June 1933
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand.
11 March 1942
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
17 August 1956
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
23 March 1924
The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him.
01 November 1942
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
22 April 1923
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.
18 July 1952
Burt, a Marine suffering from Battle Fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement.
23 December 1934
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
12 July 1956
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him.
17 February 1933
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
