1950 - 1956 (inclusive)
1.5 linear ft. of papers
0.5 linear ft. of photos
478 item(s) of artworks

1937 - 2000 (inclusive)
25.2 linear ft. of papers
13.9 linear ft. of photos
2 item(s) of posters
1348 item(s) of artworks

1868 - 1995 (inclusive)
2 linear ft. of papers
1 item(s) of artworks
Ben Carré was a French-born scenic painter and art director. He emigrated to the United States in 1912. He was active from 1907 to 1937 as an art director and from 1939 to 1951 as a painter of backgrounds.

1936 - 1986 (inclusive)
2 folder(s) of papers

1933 - 1940 (inclusive)
30 item(s) of artworks

1947 - 1947 (inclusive)
182 item(s) of artworks
Burton F. Lamfrom was an American sketch artist, set designer, and assistant art director active in film in the late 1930s and 1940s.

1934 - 1981 (inclusive)
2.5 linear ft. of papers
2.3 linear ft. of photos
Carl S. Anderson was an American art director, twice nominated for an Academy Award in art direction for THE LAST ANGRY MAN (1959) and for LADY SINGS THE BLUES (1972).

1918 - 1992 (inclusive)
15.4 linear ft. of papers
0.8 linear ft. of photos
Cedric Gibbons was an American art director who oversaw Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's art department from 1924 to 1956. Credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette, he was nominated thirty-nine times and received eleven statuettes including best art direction for THE MERRY WIDOW (1934), GASLIGHT (1944), and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951). Gibbons was married to actress Dolores Del Rio from 1930 to 1941 and to actress Hazel Brooks from 1944 until his death in 1960.
Hazel Brooks was born in South Africa in 1924 and was active in film from 1943 to the mid-1950s. Her credits include roles in BODY AND SOUL (1947) and SLEEP MY LOVE (1948). She was marriage to art director Cedric Gibbons from 1944 to 1960; and to Dr. Rex Ross from 1967 until his death in 1999.

2003 - 2003 (inclusive)
1 item(s) of artworks
1 folder(s) of papers

1936 - 1952 (inclusive)
2 linear ft. of papers
Duncan Cramer was an American art director, production designer, and set decorator active from the mid-1920s to the early 1960s. Cramer entered the film industry by working in the art department at Thomas H. Ince Productions, and became a full-fledged art director with Douglas McLean Productions in 1925. Cramer worked at Fox and 20th Century-Fox from 1926 to 1938; however, most of his career was spent independent of the studios. Cramer was involved with Four Star Productions television from 1952 to 1957.

1982 - 1997 (inclusive)
6.3 linear ft. of papers
2061 item(s) of artworks
Edward Pisoni was an American production designer and art director active from 1979 to 2013. He attended St. Louis University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. His frequent collaborators include directors Sidney Lumet and Herbert Ross.

1965 - 1978 (inclusive)
1.5 linear ft. of papers
25 item(s) of artworks

1950 - 1967 (inclusive)
1 linear ft. of papers

1936 - 1959 (inclusive)
1 linear ft. of papers
Franz Bachelin was a German-born art director active from 1937 to 1966. His work included several films in the BULLDOG DRUMMOND series, STALAG 17, and JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color.

1906 - 2008 (inclusive)
13 linear ft. of papers
1641 item(s) of artworks
Eugene Allen was an American production designer and art director most active in film during the 1950s and 1960s. He was executive director emeritus of the Art Directors Guild. Allen served on the Academy Board of Governors throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and was president from 1983 to 1985. He was nominated three times in the art direction category and received an Academy Award for MY FAIR LADY (1964).

1950 - 1979 (inclusive)
2 linear ft. of papers
8 item(s) of artworks

1954 - 1954 (inclusive)
14 item(s) of artworks

1946 - 1990 (inclusive)
65 linear ft. of papers
5.9 linear ft. of photos
1285 item(s) of artworks
George Jenkins was an American art director active in film from 1946 to 1990. He began his career as a set designer and lighting director on Broadway in the early 1940s. Jenkins received an Academy Award for art direction for ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976).

5 linear ft. of papers
4 linear ft. of photos
Harold Grieve was an American art director and interior decorator active in film during the 1920s. He left film in the late 1920s to pursue a career as an interior decorator, often for clients in the movie industry. Grieve was married to actress Jetta Goudal for more than 50 years.
Jetta Goudal was a Dutch-born actress, active in Hollywood from 1922 to 1932.

1921 - 1977 (inclusive)
5.4 linear ft. of papers
9 item(s) of artworks
Harold Grieve was an American art director and interior decorator active in film during the 1920s. He left film in the late 1920s to pursue a career as an interior decorator, often for clients in the movie industry. Grieve was married to actress Jetta Goudal for more than 50 years.

1921 - 2007 (inclusive)
7.5 linear ft. of papers
7 linear ft. of photos
163 item(s) of artworks
Lloyd Henry Bumstead was an American art director and production designer active in film from 1948 to 1997. After attending the University of Southern California, he began his career in the art departments at RKO and Paramount in the late 1930s. Bumstead's first credit as an art director came in 1948 and he went on to design numerous films, notably for directors Clint Eastwood, George Roy Hill, and Alfred Hitchcock. Bumstead was nominated for an Academy Award in the art direction category for VERTIGO (1958) and UNFORGIVEN (1992) and earned Oscars for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) and THE STING (1973).

1959 - 1981 (inclusive)
4.5 linear ft. of papers
Herman A. Blumenthal was an American art director and production designer active in film from 1955 to 1981. He received Academy Awards statuettes for best art direction for his work on CLEOPATRA (1963) and HELLO, DOLLY! (1969). He had previously been nominated for JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1959).

1933 - 1962 (inclusive)

1953 - 1980 (inclusive)
0.7 linear ft. of papers
John S. (Jack) Poplin Jr. was an American art director and production designer active from the 1950s through 1980s. Poplin was nominated by the Academy for art direction (black and white) for THE SLENDER THREAD (1965).

1969 - 1992 (inclusive)
3.75 linear ft. of photos
183 item(s) of artworks

1948 - 1953 (inclusive)
0.5 linear ft. of papers
Jerome Pycha Jr. was an American art director and production designer, active from 1933 to 1954.

1932 - 1953 (inclusive)
4.8 linear ft. of papers
John B. Goodman III was an American art director active in film from the 1920s through 1960s. He studied architecture before working at Famous Players Lasky from 1920 to 1927. In the 1930s he worked on Pathe, RKO, Warner Bros., and Paramount films. He served as supervising art director at Universal in the 1940s. Goodman received four nominations in the art direction category from 1938 to 1944 and received an Academy Award for PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1943). From 1950 to 1966 he worked at Nat Holt Pictures, Paramount, MGM, Republic, and the CBS Studio Center.

1957 - 1963 (inclusive)
116 item(s) of artworks
1 linear ft. of papers

1980 - 1980 (inclusive)
1 folder(s) of papers

1914 - 1979 (inclusive)
48 linear ft. of papers
31.2 linear ft. of photos
2 item(s) of posters
678 item(s) of artworks
Leo Edwin Kuter was an American art director and production designer active from 1921 to 1966.

1943 - 1955 (inclusive)
9 item(s) of artworks
2 folder(s) of papers

2000 - 2001 (inclusive)
2 folder(s) of papers

1979 - 2016 (inclusive)
5 linear ft. of papers
3 linear ft. of photos
Neil Spisak is an American production designer active in film since the mid-1980s. He began his career as an assistant to costume designer Ann Roth and went on to design costumes for stage and film. His notable credits as a production designer include THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, HEAT, FACE/OFF, Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN trilogy, and WIND RIVER.

1954 - 1986 (inclusive)
14 linear ft. of papers
3354 item(s) of artworks

522 item(s) of artworks

1948 - 1965 (inclusive)
1 folder(s) of papers
2 linear ft. of photos
168 item(s) of artworks

1933 - 1979 (inclusive)
30 linear ft. of papers
6.3 linear ft. of photos
815 item(s) of artworks
Robert Boyle was an American art director and production designer who was active from 1941 to 1991. He received four Academy Award nominations in the art direction category and a 2007 Honorary Award.

1955 - 1955 (inclusive)
6 item(s) of artworks

1927 - 1953 (inclusive)
19 folder(s) of artworks

1978 - 1989 (inclusive)
3 folder(s) of papers

1944 - 1959
13 folder(s) of papers
Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc. was an American film production company founded by Samuel Goldwyn and active from 1923 to 1959. The company was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture seven times for ARROWSMITH, DODSWORTH, DEAD END, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, THE LITTLE FOXES, THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES, and THE BISHOP’S WIFE, and received the same award for THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. Other notable films produced by the company include STELLA DALLAS (both the 1925 and 1937 versions), BULLDOG DRUMMOND, BALL OF FIRE, THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, GUYS AND DOLLS, and PORGY AND BESS.

1915 - 1941 (inclusive)
0.4 linear ft. of papers
0.6 linear ft. of photos

1939 - 1940 (inclusive)
9 item(s) of artworks

17 item(s) of artworks

1897 - 1960 (inclusive)
5 linear ft. of papers
167 item(s) of artworks
Wiard Ihnen was an American production designer active in film from 1920 to 1960. He moved to Hollywood in 1928 and married costume designer Edith Head in 1940. Ihnen was nominated in the art direction category for EVERY DAY’S A HOLIDAY (1937), and received Academy Awards for WILSON (1944) and BLOOD ON THE SUN (1945).

1944 - 1944 (inclusive)
2 folder(s) of papers

1946 - 1947 (inclusive)
1 folder(s) of papers

1960 - 1989 (inclusive)
15 linear ft. of papers
1 item(s) of posters