Cinematography: Robert De Grasse

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Robert De Grasse. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Stage Door

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds

Plot Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

The Body Snatcher

1945 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Henry Daniell · Edith Atwater

Plot In Edinburgh in 1831, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John Gray, a cabman, to clandestinely bring him exhumed bodies of the recently deceased...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Men

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Marlon Brando · Teresa Wright · Everett Sloane · Jack Webb

Plot Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud Wilozek, one of a group of...

6.8

880 votes

6.8

880 votes

5th Avenue Girl (Fifth Avenue Girl)

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

6.8

508 votes

6.8

508 votes

The Leopard Man

1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Margo · Jean Brooks · Isabel Jewell

Plot At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Born to Kill

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Claire Trevor · Lawrence Tierney · Walter Slezak · Phillip Terry

Plot In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but says nothing to...

6.7

611 votes

6.7

611 votes

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Cary Grant · Myrna Loy · Shirley Temple · Rudy Vallee

Plot Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner....

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Bachelor Mother

1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Ginger Rogers · David Niven · Charles Coburn · Frank Albertson

Plot Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the...

6.6

322 votes

6.6

322 votes

Alice Adams

1935 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Fred MacMurray · Fred Stone · Evelyn Venable

Plot In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When...

6.5

539 votes

6.5

539 votes

I Love Lucy (TV Series)

1951 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction William Asher · James V. Kern · Ralph Levy · Marc Daniels

Cast Lucille Ball · Desi Arnaz · Vivian Vance · William Frawley

Plot TV Series (1951-1957). 6 Seasons. 181 Episodes. A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. Cuban Bandleader...

6.5

587 votes

6.5

587 votes

Quality Street

1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Franchot Tone · Eric Blore · Fay Bainter

Plot England, year 1805. Phoebe and Susan Throssel are sisters living in Quality Street. Phoebe is courted by Dr. Valentine Brown and her sister and noisy neighbors expect a proposal shortly....

6.4

370 votes

6.4

370 votes

Bodyguard

1948 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Priscilla Lane · Phillip Reed · June Clayworth

Plot Homicide detective Mike Carter is tossed off the police force for insubordination and violating regulations. He reluctantly takes a job as bodyguard to Mrs. Gene Dysen, the owner of a...

6.4

202 votes

6.4

202 votes

Vivacious Lady

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Ginger Rogers · James Stewart · James Ellison · Beulah Bondi

Plot Assistant biology professor Peter Morgan (James Stewart) falls in love with and marries nightclub singer Francey (Ginger Rogers) while he is in New York to fetch his wayward cousin home....

6.4

357 votes

6.4

357 votes

The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Carl Reiner

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Richard Deacon · Mary Tyler Moore · Morey Amsterdam

Plot TV Series (1961-1966). 5 Seasons. 158 episodes. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" centers around the life of Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), a New York comedy writer who lives in...

6.4

211 votes

6.4

211 votes

Vigil in the Night

1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Carole Lombard · Brian Aherne · Anne Shirley · Julien Mitchell

Plot Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly...

6.3

113 votes

6.3

113 votes

Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman

1940 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Ginger Rogers · Dennis Morgan · James Craig · Eduardo Ciannelli

Plot Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers), a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against...

6.3

338 votes

6.3

338 votes

Carefree

1938 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Ralph Bellamy · Luella Gear

Plot Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr. Flagg. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love...

6.3

381 votes

6.3

381 votes

Crack-Up

1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

6.2

65 votes

6.2

65 votes

Tall in the Saddle

1944 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast John Wayne · Ella Raines · Ward Bond · George 'Gabby' Hayes

Plot When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered. Further, most of the townsfolk seem to be at each...

6.2

268 votes

6.2

268 votes

A Woman Rebels

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Herbert Marshall · Elizabeth Allan · Donald Crisp

Plot The story revolves around Pamela, as a woman in late-1800's England who has no intention of marriage and wishes to be her own person. After a great deal of difficulty...

6.2

199 votes

6.2

199 votes