Biography
A propboy at Thomas H. Ince Studios in the mid teens, Garmes became an assistant cameraman in the early '20s, working on numerous short comedies and several feature films. He became a director of photography by the mid '20s, and over the next 40 years lensed films for
Rex Ingram,
Josef von Sternberg,
Howard Hawks,
King Vidor,
Edmund Goulding,
Alfred Hitchcock and
Frank Borzage; he also shot much of
Gone with the Wind, but was uncredited. Garmes was director of photography and associate director with collaborating writer/directors
Ben Hecht and
Charles MacArthur (
Crime Without Passion,
The Scoundrel) and with Hecht alone (
Angels Over Broadway,
Actors and Sin). Garmes also co-directed
The Sky's the Limit with
Jack Buchanan. ~ All Movie Guide