Collection motion picture set designs, ca. 1920-1951.

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Collection motion picture set designs, ca. 1920-1951.

Collection consists of materials related to Dreier's career as a set designer and art director. Includes photographs of motion picture sets as well as charcoal, watercolor, and pen and ink sketches by Dreier.

2 oversize boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7400487

University of California, Los Angeles

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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...