Max Rée
Max Ree ( born October 7, 1889 in Copenhagen, † March 7, 1953 in Los Angeles, California ) was a native of Denmark Art Director, Costume and Production Designer, the Academy Award for Best Production Design received at the Academy Awards in 1931.
Life
Ree was initially Costume on Dagmarteatret in Copenhagen, and later in Stockholm and Berlin. After his emigration in 1925 in the United States began in the mid 1920s as a costume designer in the film industry in Hollywood at Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer, First National and RKO Pictures and worked for The Scarlett Letter ( 1926) as Art at Director, Costume and Production Designer the creation of more than 120 films.
At the Academy Awards in 1931 he won the Academy Award for Best Production Design for pioneers of the Wild West ( 1931).
Other films in their creation, he was involved, were Check and Double Check (1930 ), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 ) and Carnegie Hall ( 1947). He has worked with film directors such as Melville W. Brown, Wesley Ruggles, Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle and Edgar G. Ulmer.