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George S. Barnes
A.S.C.
George S. Barnes A.S.C.
	George Barnes at top right behind Cecil B. DeMille on set of Samson and Delilah (1949)
Born	October 16, 1892; Pasadena, California, U.S.
Died	May 30, 1953 (aged 60); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1918–1953
Spouses	; Helen Howell (m. 1915, divorced) ; Ethel Johnson (m. 1923; div. 1923) ; Marie Namara (m. 1926; div. 1932) ; Joan Blondell (m. 1933; div. 1936) ; Elizabeth Wood (m. 1936; div. 1938) ; Melba Marshall (m. 1939; div. 1945) ; Margaret Atkinson; (m. 1947)
Children	4, including Norman Powell

George S. Barnes, A.S.C. (October 16, 1892 – May 30, 1953) was an American cinematographer active from the era of silent films to the early 1950s.

Biography

Over the course of his career, Barnes was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, including for his work on The Devil Dancer (1927) with Gilda Gray and Clive Brook. He won once, for his work on the Alfred Hitchcock film Rebecca (1940). "Barnes’ photographic interpretation of Rebecca is the sort of thing to which his fellow cinematographers may point, as indeed they did in bestowing upon it the industry's premiere Award, as a complete example of what truly great camerawork can mean to a production".^[1]

He was married seven times.

His first marriage was to Helen Howell in 1915. They eventually divorced and she would later become the first wife of Frank Capra. He was married to Ethel Johnson from 1923 to 1923, then to Marie Namara from 1926 to 1932.

He was married to Joan Blondell from 1933 to 1936 and filmed five of Blondell's Warner Bros. pictures. In fact, they met on The Greeks Had a Word for Them set in which she had the leading role. Their relationship is often said to have been intense. In an interview, Blondell stated that Barnes cured her from lying. Barnes was the biological father of Blondell's son, the television executive Norman Powell (born November 2, 1934), who was adopted in 1938 by Blondell's second husband, actor Dick Powell.

He was married to Elizabeth "Betty" Wood from 1936 to 1938; they had a son named George Carlton Barnes (born December 18, 1937).

Barnes had two daughters with Melba Marshall Kruger (pseudonym of Melba Mae Kruger), to whom he was married from 1939 to 1945: Barbara Ann Barnes (born April 16, 1940) and Georgene S. Barnes (born May 7, 1942).^[2]

In 1947, he married for the final time, to Margaret Atkinson.

He died at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, after having worked on at least 142 films. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.^[3]

Filmography

1918 Vive la France!
1919 Partners Three
1919 The Law of Men
1919 The Haunted Bedroom
1919 The Virtuous Thief
1919 Stepping Out
1919 What Every Woman Learns
1919 Dangerous Hours
1920 The Woman in the Suitcase
1920 The False Road
1920 Hairpins
1920 Her Husband's Friend
1920 Silk Hosiery
1921 The Heart Line
1921 The Bronze Bell
1921 The Beautiful Gambler
1921 Opened Shutters
1922 Woman, Wake Up
1922 The Real Adventure
1922 Dusk to Dawn
1922 Conquering the Woman
1922 Peg o' My Heart
1923 Alice Adams
1923 The Love Piker
1923 Desire
1924 Yolanda
1924 Janice Meredith
1925 Zander the Great
1925 The Teaser
1925 The Dark Angel
1925 The Eagle
1926 Mademoiselle Modiste
1926 The Son of the Sheik
1926 The Winning of Barbara Worth
1927 The Night of Love
1927 Venus of Venice
1927 The Magic Flame
1927 The Devil Dancer
1928 Sadie Thompson
1928 Two Lovers
1928 Our Dancing Daughters
1928 The Awakening
1929 The Rescue
1929 Bulldog Drummond
1929 This Is Heaven
1929 Condemned
1929 The Trespasser
1930 Raffles
1930 What a Widow!
1930 A Lady's Morals
1930 The Devil to Pay!
1931 One Heavenly Night
1931 Five and Ten
1931 Street Scene
1931 The Unholy Garden
1932 The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 Polly of the Circus
1932 The Wet Parade
1932 Society Girl
1932 Blondie of the Follies
1932 Sherlock Holmes
1933 Broadway Bad
1933 Peg o' My Heart
1933 Goodbye Again
1933 Footlight Parade
1933 Havana Widows
1934 Massacre
1934 Gambling Lady
1934 He Was Her Man
1934 Smarty
1934 Dames
1934 Kansas City Princess
1934 Flirtation Walk
1935 Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 Traveling Saleslady
1935 In Caliente
1935 Broadway Gondolier
1935 The Irish in Us
1935 I Live for Love
1935 Stars Over Broadway
1936 The Singing Kid
1936 Love Begins at Twenty
1936 Cain and Mabel
1937 Black Legion
1937 Marked Woman
1937 The Prince and the Pauper
1937 Ever Since Eve
1937 Varsity Show
1937 The Barrier
1937 Hollywood Hotel
1938 Love, Honor and Behave
1938 The Beloved Brat
1938 Gold Diggers in Paris
1939 Devil's Island
1939 Jesse James
1939 Stanley and Livingstone
1939 Here I Am a Stranger (uncredited)
1939 Our Neighbors – The Carters
1940 Rebecca
1940 Free, Blonde and 21
1940 Maryland
1940 Girl from Avenue A
1940 The Return of Frank James
1941 Hudson's Bay
1941 That Uncertain Feeling
1941 Meet John Doe
1941 Ladies in Retirement
1941 Unholy Partners
1941 Remember the Day
1942 Sex Hygiene (short)
1942 Rings on Her Fingers
1942 Broadway
1942 Nightmare
1942 Once Upon a Honeymoon
1943 Mr. Lucky
1943 Jane Eyre
1944 Since You Went Away (uncredited)
1944 Frenchman's Creek
1944 None But the Lonely Heart
1945 The Spanish Main
1945 Spellbound
1945 The Bells of St. Mary's
1946 From This Day Forward
1946 Sister Kenny
1947 Sinbad the Sailor
1947 Mourning becomes Electra
1948 The Emperor Waltz
1948 Good Sam
1948 No Minor Vices
1948 The Boy with Green Hair
1948 Force of Evil
1949 Samson and Delilah
1950 The File on Thelma Jordon
1950 Riding High
1950 Let's Dance
1950 Mr. Music
1951 Here Comes the Groom
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
1952 Something to Live For
1952 Somebody Loves Me
1952 Just for You
1952 Road to Bali
1953 The War of the Worlds
1953 Little Boy Lost

Awards and nominations

At the 13th Awards Banquet of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Barnes was proclaimed the winner of the 1940 Academy Award for the year's best black-and-white cinematography in recognition of his skill in filming Rebecca. It was the film's only other win besides Best Picture.