Hans Dreier Collection of Motion Picture Set Designs, ca. 1920-1951

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Hans Dreier Collection of Motion Picture Set Designs, ca. 1920-1951

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Hans Dreier (1885-1966) was a set designer and art director at Famous Players-Lasky-Paramount and eventually became head of Paramount's art department. He received Academy Awards for (1944), (1949), and (1950). The collection consists of photographs of motion picture sets as well as charcoal, watercolor, and pen and ink sketches by Dreier and his staff. Frenchmen's Creek Samson and Delilah Sunset Boulevard

2 oversize boxes

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Dreier, Hans, 1885-1966

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Dreier was born Aug. 21, 1885 in Bremen, Germany; was a student of architecture and a practicing architect in South Africa; he began his film career in 1919 at Universum Film Aktien Gesellschaft (UFA) in Berlin; moved to the US in 1923 to join Famous Players-Lasky-Paramount and eventually became head of Paramount's art department, where he spent the rest of his career; he worked with directors such as Josef von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian, King Vidor, Billy Wilder, and Cecil B. D...