Milton R. Krasner, A.S.C. (February 17, 1901 – July 17, 1988) was a film cinematographer

Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

. He won an Academy Award for Three Coins in the Fountain

Three Coins in the Fountain (1954 film)

Three Coins in the Fountain is the 1954 film that introduced the song of the same name, which became an enduring standard. It tells the story of three American girls looking for romance in Rome while employed at the American Embassy...

(1954).

Career

Working in films since the 1930s, director of photography Krasner is remembered for his work in the 1950s at 20th Century-Fox, where he photographed many of the studio's Technicolor films including Demetrius and the Gladiators

Demetrius and the Gladiators

Demetrius and the Gladiators is a 1954 sword and sandal drama film and a sequel to The Robe. It was made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Frank Ross. The screenplay was by Philip Dunne based on characters created by Lloyd C...

(1954), Désirée (1954), The Rains of Ranchipur

The Rains of Ranchipur

The Rains of Ranchipur is a 1955 film drama made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Frank Ross from a screenplay by Merle Miller, based on the novel The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield. The music score was by Hugo Friedhofer and the cinematography by Milton R...

(1955), among others. His last film was Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a 1970 American science fiction film directed by Ted Post and written by Paul Dehn. It is the second of five films in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs...

(1970).

Some of his memorable films include A Double Life

A Double Life

A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso...

, The Set-Up

The Set-Up (1949 film)

For 2011 Set Up see hereThe Set-Up is an American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and featuring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 poem written by Joseph Moncure March. The film is about the boxing underworld.-Plot:Stoker Thompson ...

, All About Eve

All About Eve

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve", by Mary Orr.The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star...

and The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American film based on a three-act play with the same name by George Axelrod. The film was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, and starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, reprising his Broadway role...

.

Filmography

• I Love That Man (1933)
• Sitting Pretty (1933)
• Golden Harvest (1933)
• Strictly Personal (1933)
• Paris Interlude (1934)
• Death on the Diamond (1934)
• Here Comes the Groom (1934)
• Private Scandal (1934)
• The Great Flirtation (1934)
• She Made Her Bed (1934)
• Murder in the Fleet (1935)
• The Great Impersonation (1935)
• Great God Gold (1935)
• Women Must Dress (1935)
• Cheers of the Crowd (1935)
• Hold 'em, Yale (1935)
• Honeymoon Limited (1935)
• The Virginia Judge (1935)
• Forbidden Heaven (1935)
• Laughing Irish Eyes (1936)
• Mister Cinderella (1936)
• Crash Donovan (1936)
• Mysterious Crossing (1936)
• Yellowstone (1936)
• Arbor Day (1936)
• The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
• Love Letters of a Star (1936)
• She's Dangerous (1937)
• Midnight Intruder (1937)
• There Goes the Groom (1937)
• A Girl With Ideas (1937)
• Love in a Bungalow (1937)
• Prescription for Romance (1937)
• We Have Our Moments (1937)
• The Lady Fights Back (1937)
• Oh, Doctor! (1937)
• The Missing Guest (1938)
• The Crime of Dr. Hallet (1938)
• Newsboys' Home (1938)
• The Jury's Secret (1938)
• Nurse From Brooklyn (1938)
• The Storm (1938)
• The Devil's Party (1938)
• Missing Evidence (1939)
• The House of Fear (1939)
• You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
  You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
  You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is a comedy film starring and scripted by W. C. Fields.-Production background:Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. The whimsical title comes from a line spoken by Fields about ten minutes into...
  
  (1939)
• I Stole a Million
  I Stole a Million
  I Stole a Million is a crime drama film starring George Raft as a cab driver and small-time crook who makes a big score and lives to regret it. The supporting cast includes Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, and Victor Jory...
  
  (1939)
• The Family Next Door (1939)
• Little Accident (1939)
• Diamond Frontier (1940)
• The Bank Dick (1940)
• Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (1940)
• Sandy is a Lady (1940)
• Ski Patrol (1940)
• Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940)
• The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
• Man From Montreal (1940)
• Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
• The Invisible Man Returns
  The Invisible Man Returns
  The Invisible Man Returns is a 1940 horror science fiction film from Universal. It was written as a sequel to the 1933 film The Invisible Man, which was based on the novel The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. The studio had signed a multi-picture contract with Wells, and they were hoping that this...
  
  (1940)
• Hired Wife (1940)
• Zanzibar (1940)
• Private Affairs (1940)
• Paris Calling (1941)
• Buck Privates (1941)
• This Woman is Mine (1941)
• Bachelor Daddy (1941)
• Too Many Blondes (1941)
• The Lady From Cheyenne (1941)
• Swing Frolic (1942)
• The Spoilers (1942)
• A Gentleman After Dark (1942)
• Pardon My Sarong (1942)
• Men of Texas (1942)
• The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
• Arabian Nights
  Arabian Nights (1942 film)
  Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins. The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories...
  
  (1942)
• Gung Ho! (1943)
• We've Never Been Licked (1943)
• The Mad Ghoul (1943)
• Two Tickets to London (1943)
• So's Your Uncle (1943)

• The Woman in the Window
  The Woman in the Window
  The Woman in the Window is a film noir directed by Fritz Lang that tells the story of psychology professor Richard Wanley who meets and becomes enamored with a young femme fatale....
  
  (1944)
• The Invisible Man's Revenge
  The Invisible Man's Revenge
  The Invisible Man's Revenge is a 1944 horror film directed by Ford Beebe and written by Bertram Millhauser. It stars John Carradine as a mad scientist who tests his experiment on Jon Hall....
  
  (1944)
• Hat Check Honey (1944)
• Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
• Scarlett Street (1945)
• Along Came Jones (1945)
• The Dark Mirror (1946)
• Without Reservations
  Without Reservations
  Without Reservations is a comedy film starring Claudette Colbert and John Wayne, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was adapted by Andrew Solt from the novel Thanks, God! I'll Take It From Here by Jane Allen and Mae Livingston.The opening shot shows "Arrowhead"...
  
  (1946)
• The Egg and I
  The Egg and I (film)
  The Egg and I is a 1947 film directed by Chester Erskine, who co-wrote screenplay with Fred F. Finklehoffe, based on the book by Betty MacDonald.This comedy was such a hit with audiences, it spawned the Ma and Pa Kettle film series...
  
  (1947)
• A Double Life
  A Double Life
  A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso...
  
  (1947)
• The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
• Something in the Wind (1947)
• The Saxon Charm
  The Saxon Charm
  The Saxon Charm is a 1948 drama film made by Universal International Pictures. It was written and directed by Claude Binyon and produced by Joseph Sistrom, based on a novel by Frederic Wakeman. The music score was by Walter Scharf and the cinematography was by Milton R...
  
  (1948)
• Up in Central Park (1948)
• The Accused
  The Accused (1949 film)
  The Accused is an American film noir directed by William Dieterle and written by Ketti Frings, based on Be Still, My Love, a novel written by June Truesdell...
  
  (1949)
• The Set-Up
  The Set-Up (1949 film)
  For 2011 Set Up see hereThe Set-Up is an American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and featuring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 poem written by Joseph Moncure March. The film is about the boxing underworld.-Plot:Stoker Thompson ...
  
  (1949)
• Holiday Affair
  Holiday Affair
  Holiday Affair is a black-and-white 1949 light romantic comedy film starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. This modest film, directed and produced by Don Hartman, saw Mitchum expand from his typical roles in film noir and war films....
  
  (1949)
• House of Strangers
  House of Strangers
  House of Strangers is a film noir, and is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's novel I'll Never Go There Anymore, each scripted by Phillip Yordan...
  
  (1949)
• All About Eve
  All About Eve
  All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve", by Mary Orr.The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star...
  
  (1950)
• No Way Out
  No Way Out (1950 film)
  No Way Out is a black-and-white film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, and Sidney Poitier...
  
  (1950)
• Three Came Home
  Three Came Home
  Three Came Home is a post-war film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, based on the memoirs of the same name by writer Agnes Newton Keith. It depicts Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from...
  
  (1950)
• The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)
• Half Angel (1951)
• Rawhide
  Rawhide (1951 film)
  Rawhide is a 1951 western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox. It was directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols. The music score was by Sol Kaplan and the song "A Rollin' Stone" by Lionel Newman. The cinematography was by Milton R...
  
  (1951)
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale
  I Can Get It for You Wholesale (film)
  I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a 1951 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Gordon. The screenplay by Abraham Polonsky is based on Vera Caspary's loose adaptation of the 1937 novel of the same title by Jerome Weidman.-Plot:...
  
  (1951)
• People Will Talk
  People Will Talk
  People Will Talk is a romantic comedy/drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the German play by Curt Goetz, which had been made into a movie in Germany...
  
  (1951)
• Dreamboat (1952)
• Monkey Business
  Monkey Business (1952 film)
  Monkey Business is a screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Hugh Marlowe. To avoid confusion with the famous Marx Brothers movie of the same name, this film is sometimes referred to as Howard Hawks' Monkey...
  
  (1952)
• Deadline, U.S.A. (1952)
• Phone Call from a Stranger
  Phone Call from a Stranger
  Phone Call from a Stranger is a 1952 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco, who was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The screenplay by Nunnally Johnson and I.A.R...
  
  (1952)
• O. Henry's Full House
  O. Henry's Full House
  O. Henry's Full House is an anthology film made by 20th Century Fox, consisting of five separate stories by O. Henry. The film was produced by André Hakim and directed by five separate directors from five separate screenplays. The music score was composed by Alfred Newman...
  
  (1952)
• Dream Wife
  Dream Wife
  Dream Wife is a 1953 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was directed by Sidney Sheldon and produced by Dore Schary, from a screenplay by Herbert Baker, Alfred Lewis Levitt and Sidney Sheldon. The music score was by Conrad Salinger, the...
  
  (1953)
• Vicki
  Vicki (film)
  Vicki is a film noir directed by Harry Horner and based on the novel I Wake Up Screaming, written by Steve Fisher. The picture is a remake of the 1941 film I Wake Up Screaming also released by 20th Century Fox.-Plot:...
  
  (1953)
• Taxi (1953)
• Garden of Evil
  Garden of Evil
  Garden of Evil is a Western film about three somewhat disreputable 19th-century soldiers of fortune, played by Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, and Cameron Mitchell, who are hired by a woman, portrayed by Susan Hayward, to rescue her husband...
  
  (1954)
• Désirée (1954)
• Roger Wagner Chorale (1954)
• Three Coins in the Fountain
  Three Coins in the Fountain (1954 film)
  Three Coins in the Fountain is the 1954 film that introduced the song of the same name, which became an enduring standard. It tells the story of three American girls looking for romance in Rome while employed at the American Embassy...
  
  (1954)
• Demetrius and the Gladiators
  Demetrius and the Gladiators
  Demetrius and the Gladiators is a 1954 sword and sandal drama film and a sequel to The Robe. It was made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Frank Ross. The screenplay was by Philip Dunne based on characters created by Lloyd C...
  
  (1954)
• The Rains of Ranchipur
  The Rains of Ranchipur
  The Rains of Ranchipur is a 1955 film drama made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Frank Ross from a screenplay by Merle Miller, based on the novel The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield. The music score was by Hugo Friedhofer and the cinematography by Milton R...
  
  (1955)
• How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
• The Seven Year Itch
  The Seven Year Itch
  The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American film based on a three-act play with the same name by George Axelrod. The film was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, and starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, reprising his Broadway role...
  
  (1955)
• The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
• Twenty Three Paces to Baker Street (1956)
• Bus Stop
  Bus Stop (film)
  Bus Stop is a 1956 film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray and Hope Lange...
  
  (1956)
• Kiss Them For Me (1957)
• Boy on a Dolphin
  Boy on a Dolphin
  Boy on a Dolphin is a 1957 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and made in CinemaScope. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Dwight Taylor, based on the novel by David Divine....
  
  (1957)
• An Affair to Remember
  An Affair to Remember
  An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey. It was distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation....
  
  (1957)
• The Gift of Love (1958)
• A Certain Smile (1958)
• The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
• Count Your Blessings
  Count Your Blessings (film)
  Count Your Blessings is a 1959 drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Jean Negulesco, written and produced by Karl Tunberg, based on the 1951 novel The Blessing by Nancy Mitford. The music score was by Franz Waxman and the cinematography by George J. Folsey and Milton R. Krasner...
  
  (1959)
• The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
• Bells Are Ringing
  Bells Are Ringing (film)
  Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 romantic comedy-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. It stars Judy Holliday and Dean Martin.-Synopsis:Based on the successful 1956 Broadway production of the same name by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne, the film focuses on Ella Peterson, who works in...
  
  (1960)
• Home From the Hill (1960)
• Go Naked in the World (1960)
• King of Kings
  King of Kings
  King of Kings is a title that has been used by several monarchies and empires throughout history. The title originates in the Ancient Near East. It is broadly the equivalent of the later title Emperor....
  
  (1961)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
• Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
• Sweet Bird of Youth
  Sweet Bird of Youth
  Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis , whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies...
  
  (1962)
• How the West Was Won
  How the West Was Won (film)
  How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film. The picture was one of the last "old-fashioned" epic films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to enjoy great success. It follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean...
  
  (1962)
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father
  The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film)
  The Courtship of Eddie's Father is a 1963 romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Glenn Ford as a widowed father, with a young son to care for, played by Ron Howard....
  
  (1963)
• A Ticklish Affair (1963)
• Love with the Proper Stranger
  Love with the Proper Stranger
  Love with the Proper Stranger is a 1963 romantic comedy drama film made by Pakula-Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and produced by Alan J. Pakula from a screenplay by Arnold Schulman.The film stars Natalie Wood,...
  
  (1963)
• Goodbye Charlie (1964)
• Looking for Love (1964)
• Advance to the Rear (1964)
• Fate is the Hunter (1964)
• Made in Paris (1965)
• The Sandpiper
  The Sandpiper
  The Sandpiper is a 1965 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, directed by Vincente Minnelli.-Plot:Laura Reynolds is a free-spirited, unwed single mother living with her young son Danny in an isolated California beach house...
  
  (1965)
• Red Line 7000 (1965)
• The Singing Nun (1966)
• The Venetian Affair (1966
• Hurry Sundown
  Hurry Sundown (film)
  Hurry Sundown is a 1967 American drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Jane Fonda and Michael Caine. The screenplay by Horton Foote and Thomas C. Ryan is based on the 1965 novel of the same title by K.B...
  
  (1967)
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
  The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
  The St. Valentine's Day Massacre is a 1967 gangster film based on the 1929 Chicago mass murder of seven members of the Northside gang, directed against George "Bugs" Moran by Al Capone...
  
  (1967)
• The Ballad of Josie (1967)
• Don't Just Stand There! (1968)
• The Sterile Cuckoo
  The Sterile Cuckoo
  The Sterile Cuckoo , released in the UK as Pookie, is a theatrical release feature film released by Paramount Pictures. It tells the story of an eccentric young couple whose relationship deepens despite their differences and inadequacies, and stars Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, and Tim...
  
  1969)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
  Beneath the Planet of the Apes
  Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a 1970 American science fiction film directed by Ted Post and written by Paul Dehn. It is the second of five films in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs...
  
  (1970)

Awards

Wins

• Cannes Film Festival
  Cannes Film Festival
  The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
  
  : Best Cinematography, for The Set-Up; 1949.
• Academy Awards
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
  : Oscar, Best Color Cinematography, for: Three Coins in the Fountain; 1955.

Nominations

• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Color Cinematography, for Arabian Nights; shared with: William V. Skall and W. Howard Greene; 1943.

Double penetration (1984)

External links

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• Milton Krasner at Film Reference..