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James Crabe
Born 1931-08-19 · Los Angeles, California, USA
James Crabe (August 19, 1931 – May 2, 1989) was an American cinematographer known for his work in the 1970s and '80s on numerous films, including Rocky, The China Syndrome, Night Shift, The Karate Kid, and Thank God It's Friday. He was a part of the 1960s underground film collective known as Gay Girls Riding Club, a group of gay men in the industry, who spoofed Hollywood movies in a series of elaborate amateur films.
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5.5A gay take-off on a certain Warner Bros. / Tennessee Williams movie.
The Roman Springs on Mrs. Stone
1963
5.0Four "women" enter a bar and create chaos. This spoof of Never on Sunday (1960) was the first film made by a group of gay men who frequented a Los Angeles gay bar, The Brownstone, for Sunday brunch. Rarely seen today, these films, made at a time when gay lives were universally portrayed as tragic, remain a unique affirmation of the pleasure and joy gay people take in their lives.
Always on Sunday
1962
6.3An early drag parody of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?.
What Really Happened to Baby Jane
1963