Merritt B. Gerstad

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Merritt B. Gerstad (5 July 1900, Chicago, Illinois – 1 March 1974, Laguna Beach, California) was an American cinematographer of silent and early sound films. After beginning as a cinematographer on films for Universal, he worked for MGM, working with director Tod Browning on (the lost) London After Midnight (1927) and Freaks (1932), and Sam Wood on the Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera (1935). Later he was at Warner Bros. for Watch on the Rhine (1943) starring Bette Davis, Conflict (1945) with Humphrey Bogart in the lead, and the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), his last credit.

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Freaks

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Call of the Flesh

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Payment Deferred

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The House Across the Bay

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She Married an Artist

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Tom, Dick and Harry

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The Unknown

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Our Blushing Brides

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Night World

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Only Yesterday

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Strike Me Pink

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The Thirteenth Chair

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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The Great Lover

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Flying High

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Devil-May-Care

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Seventh Heaven

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Strange Justice

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Remote Control

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A Lady to Love

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Navy Blues

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Conflict

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Social Register

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The Secret of Madame Blanche

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Gentleman's Fate

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Rhapsody in Blue

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A Night at the Opera

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Imitation of Life

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The Magnificent Brute

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The Daring Young Man

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Watch on the Rhine

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Every Woman's Longing

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The Great Ziegfeld

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A Man's Man

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Mockery

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Beloved

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Guilty Hands

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Those Three French Girls

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Winter Carnival

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Slightly Honorable

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Goldie Gets Along

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Tide of Empire

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Souls at Sea

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Eternally Yours

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London After Midnight

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Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things

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The Ice Flood

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Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

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Night in New Orleans

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One Rainy Afternoon

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The Phantom Horseman

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Never the Twain Shall Meet

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Daybreak

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The Mayor of Hell

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The Man from Wyoming

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The Luckiest Girl in the World

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The Mad Whirl

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West of Broadway

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Tessie

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Wonder of Women

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Sevilla de mis Amores

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The Poor Simp

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Circus Rookies

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Fight and Win

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The Galloping Ace

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