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- Art Director
- Art Department
- Set Decorator
The extraordinarily prolific and eclectic art director Hans Dreier studied at Munich University where he majored in engineering and architecture. Following military service during the First World War, he spent time working as a supervising architect in the Cameroons and South Africa. Between 1919 and 1923, he was employed by Germany's pre-eminent film company Ufa as an assistant designer. Along with Ernst Lubitsch and other talented compatriots seeking more lucrative opportunities within the emerging film industry, Dreier left Europe in the early 1920s and was recruited by Hollywood. Most of his lengthy tenure at Paramount (1923-50) was spent as supervising art director. In that capacity, he became as influential at determining the overall style of the studio's output as his counterpart Cedric Gibbons at MGM. The Paramount 'look' during the 20's and early 30's epitomised continental elegance and sophistication. Unlike Gibbons, Dreier was far less autocratic and gave the production designers he recruited (among them Albert S. D'Agostino and Roland Anderson) carte blanche to stamp their own distinctive authority on their work. In turn, this laissez-faire approach attracted more and more talented designers to Paramount.
Dreier himself took personal charge of all films made by Lubitsch and Josef von Sternberg between 1927 and 1932. His innate perception of space, combined with his expressionist leanings, proved eminently well-suited to the sombre, moody and heavily stylised films of von Sternberg. The Docks of New York (1928), Shanghai Express (1932) and The Scarlet Empress (1934) are among the most visually evocative examples of Dreier's use of light and dark effects, of chiaroscuro and fog. In later years, his most rewarding collaborations were with Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. Among Dreier's impressive list of credits -- either working on his own or in collaboration -- are many of Paramount's most enduring films, encompassing nearly every genre: from horror to romance, from epic spectacle to period drama, from musical to films noir: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Island of Lost Souls (1932), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Duck Soup (1933), Cleopatra (1934), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935),The Buccaneer (1938), Sullivan's Travels (1941), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), The Fleet's In (1942), This Gun for Hire (1942) and Double Indemnity (1944).
Dreier retired in 1950 and was replaced as supervising art director by Hal Pereira. During his career he was nominated for twenty Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, winning on three occasions. He received his first Oscar for the costume drama Frenchman's Creek (1944). In 1950 he scored a double: one for the biblical technicolor epic Samson and Delilah (1949) and a second for his work on Billy Wilder's black & white masterpiece Sunset Blvd. (1950). He was inducted into the Art Director's Hall of Fame in 2005.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Ernest Pascal was born on 11 January 1896 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), The King's Vacation (1933) and Here's to Romance (1935). He was married to Barbara Herriman (1908-1939). He died on 4 November 1966 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, USA.- Millicent Fenwick was born on 25 February 1910 in New York City, New York, USA. She died on 16 September 1992 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, USA.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Edward English was born in 1938 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. Edward was a director and cinematographer, known for The Doughnuts (1963), Spaceways (1968) and The Fugs (1966). Edward was married to Madelyn. Edward died on 2 May 2022 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, USA.- Charles Mussett was born on 25 February 1871 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An Enemy to the King (1916), Knights of the Square Table (1917) and Number 17 (1920). He was married to Victoria Alicia Ayres. He died on 8 December 1939 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, USA.
- Nicholas Burnham was born in 1860. He was an actor, known for Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge (1920) and After the Ball (1914). He died on 30 January 1925 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, USA.
- Louis Fierce was born in 1852. He was an actor, known for A Tennessee Love Story (1911), The Two Orphans (1911) and The Gray Wolves (1911). He died on 11 March 1926 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, USA.
- Harry Harford was born in 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Battle of Ballots (1915). He died on 20 September 1925 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, USA.