Cinematography: Merrit B. Gerstad

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Merrit B. Gerstad. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


One Rainy Afternoon

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Francis Lederer · Ida Lupino · Hugh Herbert · Roland Young

Plot Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An...

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Goldie Gets Along

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Social Register

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Colleen Moore · Charles Winninger · Pauline Frederick · Alexander Kirkland

Plot Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama...

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Strike Me Pink

1936 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ethel Merman · Sally Eilers · Harry Parke

Plot After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he...

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The Great Lover

1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Irene Dunne · Ernest Torrence · Neil Hamilton

Plot Jean Paurel is a womanizing opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career in order to take advantage of her. But instead he finds falling in love with...

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A Lady to Love

1930 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Vilma Bánky · Robert Ames · Richard Carle

Plot An Italian wine-maker woos a mail-order bride by sending her a picture of his handsome foreman.

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Girls' Dormitory

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Herbert Marshall · Ruth Chatterton · Simone Simon · Constance Collier

Plot Head of a private European girls school falls in love with a student who steps aside for a teacher also loves him. Tyrone Power debuted in a nightclub scene.

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The Daring Young Man

1935 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

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Night in New Orleans

1942 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction William Clemens

Cast Preston Foster · Albert Dekker · Patricia Morison · Charles Butterworth

Plot The police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel Abbott...

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Beloved

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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She Married an Artist

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast John Boles · Luli Deste · Frances Drake · Helen Westley

Plot American artist Lee Thornwood (John Boles) and his model, Sally Dennis (Frances Drake), appear to be made for each other, but he weds Parisian designer Toni Bonnet (Luli Deste) instead...and...

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Daybreak

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Ramon Novarro · Helen Chandler · Jean Hersholt · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot Willi, a brash young lieutenant in the Austrian Imperial Guard, bent on an evening of pleasure, visits a house of ill repute and gambling parlor. He meets Laura, a sweet...

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West of Broadway

1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast John Gilbert · El Brendel · Lois Moran · Madge Evans

Plot Jerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets...

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Wonder of Women

1929 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Lewis Stone · Leila Hyams · Peggy Wood · Harry Myers

Plot A German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died.

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Navy Blues

1929 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

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The Ice Flood

1926 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Kenneth Harlan · Viola Dana · Frank Hagney · Fred Kohler

Plot Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he...

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As Good as Married

1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast John Boles · Doris Dolan · Walter Pidgeon · Tala Birell

Plot In order to avoid alimony payments and a large tax bill, a boss marries his secretary, then finds out he really is in love with her.

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