Top Ten Contributors - Lady in the Lake (1947)
by milam_ogden | created - 17 Aug 2014 | updated - 17 Aug 2014 | PublicThis movie has an unique feature, camera is always aimed at the actor on the screen. A little disconcerning but interesting. Here are the top 10 contributors that brought this film to the public. This movie had a very good supporting cast that saved the film.
1. Raymond Chandler
Writer | Double Indemnity
An American novelist, writer of crime fiction featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe, Raymond (Thornton) Chandler was born in Chicago of an American father and an Anglo-Irish mother. He moved to England when his parents divorced. He attended Dulwich College and studied languages in France ...
wrote the original novel
2. Robert Montgomery
Actor | The Door with Seven Locks
Robert Montgomery is known for Chamber of Horrors (1940).
directed this movie and acted as Philip Marlowe
3. Steve Fisher
Writer | Destination Tokyo
Steve Fisher was born on August 29, 1912 in Marine City, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Destination Tokyo (1943), Hell's Half Acre (1954) and Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955). He was married to Edithe Seimes. He died on March 27, 1980 in Canoga Park, ...
wrote the screenplay
4. David Snell
Soundtrack | Deadpool
David Snell was born on September 10, 1897 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was a writer and composer, known for Deadpool (2016), Black Dynamite (2009) and The Edge of Night (1956). He died on March 27, 1967 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
behind the musical score
5. Paul Vogel
Cinematographer | The Time Machine
Paul Vogel was born on August 22, 1899 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Time Machine (1960), Battleground (1949) and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962). He was married to Gladys. He died on November 24, 1975 in Los Angeles, ...
director of photography
6. Audrey Totter
Actress | The Unsuspected
One is certainly hard-pressed to think of another true "bad girl" representative so closely identifiable with film noir than hard-looking blonde actress Audrey Totter. While she remained a "B"-tier actress for most her career, she was an "A" quality actress and one of filmdom's most intriguing ...
played Adrienne Fromsett, secretary to Marlowe
7. Lloyd Nolan
Actor | Hannah and Her Sisters
It would no doubt be a real shock to most people to discover that the rich baritone Bronx-like accent of great veteran character actor Lloyd Nolan was a product of the San Francisco streets--not the urban jungle of New York City. Nolan was born in the City by the Bay, and his father, James Nolan, ...
played Lt DeGarmot
8. Leon Ames
Actor | Peggy Sue Got Married
Leon Ames was born Harry Wycoff in Portland, Indiana, to Cora Alice (DeMoss) and Charles Elmer Wycoff. He had always wanted to be an actor and he did it the hard way, serving a long apprenticeship in touring amateur theatre companies -- even selling shoes for a while on 42nd Street in the 1920s. It...
played Derace Kingsby
9. Jayne Meadows
Actress | City Slickers
One of four children (two older brothers, one younger sister) born to American missionaries, Jayne Meadows (née Jane Cotter) was born September 27, 1919, in China. The family returned to the US in the early 1930s wherein Jayne was forced to learn the English language, speaking Chinese and other ...
plays role of Mildred Haveland
10. Morris Ankrum
Actor | In a Lonely Place
A graduate of the University of Southern California School of Law, Morris Ankrum was an attorney and an economics professor before switching careers and joining the theater. He was a veteran stage actor by the time he entered the film industry in the 1930s. His film career spanned 1933-64, during ...
plays Eugene Grayson
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