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James Wong Howe. Cinematographer: The Thin Man. Master cinematographer James Wong Howe, whose career stretched from silent pictures through the mid-'70s, was born Wong Tung Jim in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, on August 28, 1899, the son of Wong How. His father emigrated to America the year James was born, settling in Pasco, Washington, where he worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
May 13 — Jun 26, 2022. Born in China at the dawn of the 20th century and arriving in the United States as a young child, James Wong Howe would come of age within and alongside Hollywood, serving as one of the industry’s major stylistic and technical innovators from the early 1920s through the mid-1970s. One of the few Chinese immigrants in ...
12 de may. de 2022 · James Wong Howe . F rom the early 1920s to the mid-1970s, cinematographer James Wong Howe shot more than 130 features and scored ten Oscar nominations and two wins. His use of deep focus and wide-angle lenses on William K. Howard’s Transatlantic (1931) presaged Gregg Toland’s work on Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane ten years later. With a handheld camera, he swirled around John Garfield in ...
27 de abr. de 2022 · The cinematographers of Golden Age Hollywood are often less familiar to us than the images they created, and James Wong Howe is a legend hiding in plain sight. The Thin Man (1934), Sweet Smell of ...
James Wong Howe war einer der ersten asiatischen Künstler, denen beim Film eine bedeutende Karriere gelang. Er unterhielt eine langjährige Partnerschaft mit der Autorin Sanora Babb, einer Weißen, die er erst 1949, nach Aufhebung des kalifornischen Mischehen-Verbots, heiraten konnte. Howe war ein Cousin der Schauspielerin Anna May Wong.
19 de may. de 2020 · James Wong Howe, “Chinese Cameraman” Born Wong Tung Jim in 1899, James Wong Howe came to the United States with his family at age five, and grew up in Pasco, Washington. Howe made his way to Hollywood in 1916, at the beginning of the industry’s transition from New York to California and first worked as a camera assistant on Cecil B. DeMille’s Male and Female (1919).
24 de sept. de 2019 · He was billed as James Howe until 1933 when he and MGM changed his billing to James Wong Howe. According to his biographer Todd Rainsberger, the cinematographer’s acclaim in the mid-1930s was partly due to his being a “novelty of an Oriental in the film industry”; Rainsberger adds that most American news articles about him “dealt with his race and personality.”
