Film homage Melbourne Spurr Buster Keaton c.1921 color added 2012
by David Lee Guss
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Film homage Melbourne Spurr Buster Keaton c.1921 color added 2012
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Melbourne Spurr (1888-1964) was one of the premiere Hollywood photographers in the 1920's. John Barrymore, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Tom Mix and Buster Keaton were among his favored clients.
He was particularly close to Pickford who adored being photographed. Not so with her husband Douglas Fairbanks.
Spurr's classic image of John Barrymore is among my favorites and was used on the cover of Gene Fowler's biography of "The Great Profile," "Goodnight Sweet Prince."
Spurr was an uncredited publicity photographer on Keaton's "The General" (1926) and "The Cameraman" (1928).
And like Buster his career fell away in the 1930's as the major film companies had their own "in house" portrait photographers. Spurr maintained his studio well into the 1950's.
His deafness prevented him from being an actor in the industry.
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