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Robert Cushman
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Born
November 7
,
1946
·
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Died
July 13
,
2009
·
Edgewood, Kentucky, USA
Mini Bio
Robert Cushman was born on November 7, 1946 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is known for
Summerspell (1983)
,
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints (2000)
and
American Experience (1987)
. He died on July 13, 2009 in Edgewood, Kentucky, USA.
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Photographic curator for the Acadamy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library from 1972 until his death.
He created a cleaning process for photos that had been glued into still books.
He developed and expanded the Academy library's photo collection. He acquired major studio archives, as well as personal collections of
George Cukor
,
Harold Lloyd
,
Katharine Hepburn
,
Buster Keaton
, and
Douglas Fairbanks
.
He graduated from UCLA, and was a research fellow at the American Film Institute.
He fell in love with movies at age four, when he saw
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
for the first time at the Rialto Theater in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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