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- Mutz Greenbaum was born on February 3, 1896 in Berlin, Germany. Mutz was a cinematographer and director, known for Nine Days a Queen (1936), Hotel Reserve (1944) and Der Meister der Welt (1927). Mutz died on July 5, 1968 in Findon, Sussex, England, UK.
- Son of Jules Greenbaum
- Brother of George Greenbaum
- Camera assistant from 1916. During the 1920's, worked for his father's company, Greenbaum Films. Left Germany in the early 30's, signing with Gaumont-British as full director of photography. During the succeeding decades, worked on many classic films by leading producers Michael Balcon, Alexander Korda and the Boulting Brothers. Usually credited as 'Max Greene'.
- The cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum came already in touch to the film business in 1913 thank to his father, the film pioneer Jules Greenbaum (he was a famous producer who already began in 1899 to produce first movies and who realised more than 120 movies in total), when he began to work for the company of his father.
- Greene turned in the best work of his career, on the British Fox production of Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950). The movie (which exists in two distinctly different editions) is an essay in subdued lighting and it is a cinematographer's dream, taking us on a nightmarish tour of a London that always seems shrouded in darkness, even in midday. If any movie of Greene's deserved Academy Award consideration for its photography, it was this film, which took decades to be fully appreciated.
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