Jack Cardiff was cinematographer on two other Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s films, A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and The Red Shoes (1948). He shot panoramic scenes for Albert Lewin’s Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) in Spain, The African Queen (1951) in the Belgian Congo and The Barefoot Contessa (1954). Another notable film, which Cardiff both directed and photographed, The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), starred Marianne Faithfull.
Known as “the man who makes women look beautiful” Cardiff worked with Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn and Anita Ekberg (War and Peace) and Marilyn Monroe (The Prince and the Showgirl), as well as Elizabeth Taylor in Scent of Mystery.