Cedric Gibbons

...support of United Artists, she managed to escape Carewe and debuted in the talkies with The Bad One in 1930. In 1930, she married Cedric Gibbons, one of MGM's leading art directors and production designers, whom she met at a party...

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...of Dorian Gray" Nominations: Best Supporting Actress, Angela Lansbury, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; Best Art Direction, Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, John Bonar and Hugh Hunt, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

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...her work, Irene Lentz met and married short story author and screenwriter Eliot Gibbons, brother of multi-Academy Award winning Cedric Gibbons, head of art direction at MGM Studios. Irene confided to her close friend Doris Day that the...

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Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1893 - July 26, 1960) was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater...

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...Carroll Baker as the thumb-sucking child bride of a middle-aged cotton gin owner (Malden). The legendary MGM art director Cedric Gibbons is feted Saturday afternoon at the Egyptian Theatre by the American Cinematheque and the Art Deco...

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...Cutter, Paul Marquardt and Ken Darby. Musical numbers staged by Bobby Connolly. Cinematography by Harold Rosson. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning, with set decorations by Edwin B. Williams. Costume design by Gilbert...

In this article: The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, Oz, Gone with the Wind, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Academy Awards, Scarecrow, Judy Garland, and Mervyn LeRoy

...peopled by a cast of thousands. It was unprecedented in size and ambition. 'The biggest set will be Munchkinland,' wrote Cedric Gibbons, the head of the art department, in a pre-production memo. 'On it will be 122 structures, one-fourth...

In this article: Oz, Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Dorothy Gale, Louis B Mayer, and Bert Lahr

...weighing 8lb, showing a figure wielding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film. Its designer was the MGM art director Cedric Gibbons who sketched out the shape in a couple of minutes on a tablecloth in Hollywood's Biltmore Hotel. The...

In this article: Oscars, Jean Harlow, Hollywood, Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin, William Holden, Bette Davies, and Mary Pickford

...the film's city is almost entirely a back lot creation, devised by Minnelli and his art directors, Preston Ames and Cedric Gibbons. In this case the beauty of the Blu-ray edition lies in the meticulous re-creation of the original...

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...Feb 22 : In 1928, Mexican film director Emilio 'El Indio' Fernandez was approached by the art director of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Cedric Gibbons, with a most unusual request. Would Senor Fernandez be willing to pose naked for Gibbons's current...

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