John S. Detlie
John Stewart Detlie ( born December 23, 1908 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, † 30 November 2005 in La Quinta, California ) was an American architect, art director and production designer, who at the Academy Awards in 1941 for an Oscar for Best Production Design was nominated.
Life
After schooling Detlie studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and was after graduation, first a short time as an architect working before he worked 1937-1942 as a production designer and art director in the film industry in Hollywood and in that time at the scenic features of 23 films cooperated. For the scene image in the color film Bitter Sweet ( 1940), a romantic musical drama directed by WS Van Dyke with Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy and George Sanders, he was together with the Production Designer legend Cedric Gibbons for an Oscar for at the Academy Awards 1941 best Production Design nomination. During this time, his brother Stanley Detlie worked as a production designer also in some movie productions.
During the Second World War, he served as an architect in the U.S. Army and was responsible for the camouflage of the Boeing factory in Seattle. After the end of the Second World War, he continued his work as an architect and created numerous churches and large parts of downtown Honolulu.
Detlie, who had married his first wife, from 1940 to 1943 to divorce with actress Veronica Lake, died from the effects of cancer.