Character actor Charlie Arnt and Ned Scott developed a portfolio of character roles in 1936. The chief objective of this effort was the promotion of Charlie Arnt as a specialty actor. It turned out that Ned Scott used it for his own promotional purposes as well. The characters which Arnt portrayed reflected the cultural and political atmosphere of the time.…

I have just found a undiscovered movie Ned Scott photographed for Columbia Studios in 1946. The title of the movie is “The Gentleman Misbehaves”, starring Bob Haymes, Osa Massen and Hillary Brooke. The film is a combination comedy and musical directed by George Sherman. The plot is driven by an arranged marriage to prevent deportation which slowly develops into something…

Ned Scott served as a contract photographer for Columbia Studios from 1945-48, and same period when the “Crime Doctor” film series was created. There were nine films in this series, and they all starred Warner Baxter. This film series consists of detective dramas which are consistent in scope and range of content. The quality of the series ranks more favorably…

It was inevitable that Ned Scott would find his camera turned in the direction of a film’s director at some point during the movie production. I do not believe that film directors as a group were shy about this kind of activity, but some were less reluctant than others to greet the other end of the camera. Ned Scott’s often…

The Gantner & Mattern Company of San Francisco, located at 1453 Mission Street, was in the business of making swim wear, sweaters, and sport clothing. From 1936 through 1942, Ned Scott photographed their swim suit and sweater models to support their advertising campaigns which involved ad placement in major national magazine publications. The Gantner & Mattern Company no longer exists,…

Time and purpose have collaborated to produce a nearly perfect research protocol for the Ned Scott Archive. My father once said to a reporter for Look Magazine in 1946 that he estimated that he took 50,000 photographs per year in the film industry. The occasion was Look’s bestowing on Ned Scott their Best Photo of the Year award for an…

The American Cowboy Magazine issued a Collector’s Edition to honor John Wayne, the “Duke” famous among many around the world as the iconic cowboy of the American West. The editors chose Ned Scott’s classic portrait depiction of Wayne’s character “Ringo” from the 1939 movie “Stagecoach” to grace the magazine’s cover. My research over the past ten years has shown that…

It was my good fortune to locate a Ned Scott photograph of the renowned and acclaimed american artists who worked on the set of director John Ford’s classic “The Long Voyage Home” at the request of producer Walter Wanger. By 1940, Walter Wanger had already produced 28 films. A number of these were quite successful, and Wanger became known as…

Ned Scott was an unlikely candidate to join the ranks of still photographers in the mid 1930’s. Practitioners of that unique art form achieved their positions after careful training in respected and well recognized national schools. Ned Scott never had such training. After becoming a member of the Camera Club of New York, a loosely organized non profit group of…

My research has just revealed a 1947 movie that Ned Scott photographed for Columbia Studios called “The Guilt of Janet Ames”. The movie stars Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Sid Caesar and Nina Foch. The film is directed by Henry Levin for Columbia. The general theme of this drama is that one cannot escape the vicissitudes of life despite all the…