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Designer, Director, Script. William Cameron Menzies was born in New Haven, Connecticut on 29 July 1896 to Scots immigrant parents. He studied at Yale and the University of Edinburgh, and after serving in the US Army during World War I he attended the New York Art Student League, then joined Famous Players-Lasky (later to evolve into Paramount) working in special effects and design.
With his landmark design of Douglas Fairbanks’ The Thief of Bagdad, WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES (1896-1957) became Hollywood’s most famous art director. A director himself from the early 1930s, Menzies would wield much more influence as a “production designer” (a title producer David O. Selznick created for him), culminating in his monumental design of Gone With the Wind.
William Cameron Charles Billy Menzies (29 Jul 1896 - certain 5 Mar 1957) 0 references . Sitelinks. Wikipedia (22 entries) edit. arwiki ويليام كاميرون ...
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Curtis writes of Menzies' design and supervision of John Barrymore's Beloved Rogue (1927), a film that remains a masterpiece of craft and synthesis, one of the most distinctive pictures to emerge from Hollywood's waning days of silent films, and of his extraordinary, opulent appointments for Gone With the Wind (1939).
17 de nov. de 2015 · William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come. James Curtis. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 17, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 432 pages. He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale, influenced by German expressionism and the work of the great European directors. He was known for his visual flair and ...
Here is a Lobby Card from RKO's The Whip Hand (1951), directed by William Cameron Menzies. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions. 2 Photos.
