ERNEST BACHRACH; Stillsman at RKO

A name I discovered recently was that of Ernest Bachrach (1899-1973), a stills photographer  who joined RKO in 1928 and worked there till  he retired in 1954.
He shot photos for  King Kong and Citizen Kane.

In 1947, he received a rare Academy Award medal of outstanding achievement in still photography for Cross Fire  and The Farmer’s Daughter.

The stills here demonstrate some of his excellent work.

Fay Wray.KING KONG

 

KING KONG

 

Orson Welles

 

 

Ann Harding

 

Lucille Ball

 

 

Jane Greer

 

Robert Mitchum

That’s NOIR!

 

 

Joseph Cotten, Loretta Young. THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER.

 

Robert Ryan

The king of menace when he wanted to be.

 

Ingrid Bergman

 

Robert Ryan

Love that shadow.

 

Alfred Hitchcock

Super idea to have blow-up of a script page for NOTORIOUS.

 

Robert Ryan.THE SET UP.

 

Marilyn Monroe.

 

 

 

Ernest Bachrach talking to enthusiastic amateur photographers. Virginia Vale in the foreground. Definitely a boy’s  club!

 

The annual Still Photography medal won by Ernest Bachrach in 1947

 

 

 

Janet Leigh, Robert Mitchum look at some of the RKO Still photography Exhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 responses »

  1. I remember Virginia Vale from a series of good little westerns , six in all, with George O’Brien. She also made one with Tim Holt who took over from George as RKO’s leading cowboy. I really like this studios westerns.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s