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He also used more than one camera to increase the number of possible viewing angles.

He continued to innovate with his following movies,using skilful lighting, location photography and clever tracking shots,in the gangster movie, 'City Streets' in 1931,and in the classic 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' in 1932, particularly with the transformation scenes in which Mamoulian devised a complicated layered makeup systems to achieve his effects.

'Love Me Tonight' in 1932 saw Mamoulian further refining his techniques and experimenting with the blending of picture and sound and in 1935 'Becky Sharp' was the first feature film to be made with the three-strip Technicolor process.

To make up for the missed degree he attended school in Aarau (Switzerland) from 1895 to 1896 when he successfully took his A-levels and began to study in Zurich. He was one of the first to use the "blimp", a box which enclosed the camera to negate the sound it made when recording. He also developed an interest in art and made collage portraits of his wife out of leaves, flowers and shells.

In 1929 he was given the chance to direct his first Hollywood movie, the backstage drama, 'Applause', one of the earliest talkies.

Mamoulian was staunchly independent and had the unusual directorial distinction of being dismissed from three movies: 'Laura' in 1944, after disagreements with producer, Otto Preminger, 'Porgy and Bess' in 1959 again after disagreements with the producer, Sam Goldwyn, and from 'Cleopatra' in 1963, a production that was beset with financial problems, none of them of Mamoulian's making.

He lived for the remainder of his life in Beverley Hills with his wife, artist Azadia Newman whom he married in 1945.

In 1939 World War II broke out. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1932
Love Me Tonight(uncredited) [producer]

1933
The Song of Songs
Queen Christina

1934
We Live Again

1935
Becky Sharp

1936
The Gay Desperado

1937
High, Wide, and Handsome

1938

1939
Golden Boy

1940
The Mark of Zorro

1941
Blood and Sand
Rings on Her Fingers

1942

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Laura (uncredited)

1945

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Summer Holiday

1949

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When he turned 15 he left school without any degree and followed his family to Milan.

He was 76 years old.

Illustrations Credits:
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ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich: 2
Archive of the author: 3
Albert Einstein-Society, Bern: 4

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The famous final scene which tracks without interruption from long shot to close up of Garbo in the prow of the ship needed the invention of a new type of camera lens.

Mamoulian further enhanced his reputation for top quality work in the early 1940's with two remakes of silent films 'The Mark of Zorro' in 1940 and 'Blood and Sand' the following year, both starring the heartthrob swashbuckler Tyrone Power and both box-office smashes.

He successfully finished his studies in July 1900.

He moved to Bern and was given work at the Patent Office. In December 1936 Einstein’s wife Elsa died.

Mamoulian's output slowed considerably and he completed only three more films: the comedy 'Rings on Her Fingers' in 1942 and the musicals 'Summer Holiday' in 1948, based on Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!," and 'Silk Stockings' in 1957 with Fred Astaire, based on the 1939 film, 'Ninotchka'.

He was an “average” pupil but already very early interested in science and mathematics. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' in 1931 and Miriam Hopkins in 'Becky Sharp' in 1935, and in 1982 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America. He also, uniquely, on occasions, allowed the sound of the camera to be heard on the soundtrack, arguing, rightly, that the action of the movie would be so engrossing that it would not affect the audience's enjoyment.

In November 1881 Albert’s sister Maria – called Maja – was born.

A short time later the Einstein family went to Munich where Albert first attended elementary school and subsequently Luitpold grammar school. His ambition took him to England and by his early twenties he was directing plays in London.

After directing the hit London play "The Beating on the Door," in 1923 he was invited to America by Vladimir Rosing, the Russian operatic tenor and stage director, to teach at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York where he became involved in teaching drama and opera.

In the same year World War I broke out.

After Einstein had separated from his wife Mileva he married his cousin Elsa Löwenthal in 1919. His ambition was to obtain the diploma of a subject teacher for mathematics and physics. In 1946 he proposed a world government in which he saw the only way to achieve continuous peace.

Einstein spent the last years of his life reclusively in Princeton.

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Rouben Mamoulian was born on October 8, 1897, in Tbilisi, Georgia, (at that time called Tiflis, and part of Imperial Russia) into a well to do, middle class and cultured family. Rouben Mamoulian died in 1987 of natural causes in Woodland Hills, California.

rouben mamoulian biography of albert einstein