Russ Meyer
Febrero 7, 2008 por Max
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Russ Meyer was born in San Leandro, California to William Arthur Meyer, a German-American police officer father and Lydia Lucinda Hauck Howe, a homemaker. His parents divorced shortly after his birth and he was to have virtually no contact with his father during his life. When he was 14, his mother pawned her wedding ring in order to buy him a 8mm film camera. He made a number of amateur films at the age of 15, and served during World War II as a U.S. Army combat cameraman for the 166th Signal Photo Company. It was there that Meyer would forge his strongest friendships and ask many of his fellow combat cameramen to work with him on his future films. Much of Meyer’s work during World War II was considered some of the finest combat footage ever shot[citation needed]; excerpts can be seen in newsreels and Patton (1971).[1] Upon returning to civilian life, he made industrial films and became a well known glamour photographer, which included work for Hugh Hefner’s newly launched Playboy magazine. Meyer would shoot three Playboy centerfolds during its early years, one of which included his wife Eve Meyer in 1955 and a pictorial of then-wife Edy Williams in March 1973.[2]
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