Arthur Krams
Arthur A. Krams ( born July 15, 1912 in New York City, New York, † September 29, 1985 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director and production designer, who at the Oscar ceremony 1956 Oscar for the best Production Design and won another seven times was nominated for an Oscar in this category.
Life
Krams began his career as an art director and set designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1946 at the Film Ball at the Embassy (Holiday in Mexico) and worked until 1969 at the scenic features of almost seventy films.
At the Academy Awards in 1953, he received his first of seven Oscar nominations for Best Production Design and together with Cedric Gibbons, Paul Size and Edwin B. Willis for the color film The Merry Widow ( The Merry Widow, 1952), directed by Curtis Bernhardt after the operetta by Franz Lehar with Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas and Una Merkel in the Hauptrollem. At the Academy Awards in 1954, he was two nominations: First with Gibbons, Willis, E. Preston Ames, Edward C. Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo, F. Keogh Gleason and Jack D. Moore for the color film The Story of Three Loves (1953 ), which was directed by Vincente Minnelli and Gottfried Reinhardt with Kirk Douglas, James Mason and Leslie Caron, and with Gibbons, size and Willis for the color film Lili (1953 ) by Charles Walters with Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer and Jean -Pierre Aumont.
In 1956 he won jointly with Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen and Sam Comer Academy Award for Best Production Design in the black and white film The Rose Tattoo (1955 ) after the eponymous play by Tennessee Williams, directed by Daniel Mann with Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster and Marisa Pavan in the lead roles. In addition, he was in 1956 nominated Pereira, Como and J. McMillan Johnson for another Academy Award for Best Production Design in a color film and though and for the staged by Alfred Hitchcock movie Over the roofs of Nice (1955 ) with Cary Grant, Grace Kelly Jessie Royce Landis.
Along with Pereira, Lake and Walter H. Tyler, he was nominated in 1960 for another Academy Award for Best Production Design in Black and White Film Career (1959 ), a shot by Anthony Mann film drama starring Dean Martin, Anthony Franciosa and Shirley MacLaine in the lead roles. Also at the Academy Awards in 1961 were he Pereira, Tyler and Lake nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in a black and white film, this time in the resulting directed by Norman Taurog science fiction comedy film visit to a small planet ( Visit to a Small Planet, 1960) with Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman and Earl Holliman.
His last seven Academy Award nominations for Best Production Design received Krams 1962 again with Pereira, Tyler and Como for the color film Summer and Smoke ( 1961), a staged after a play by Tennessee Williams by Peter Glenville film drama starring Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page and Rita Moreno in the lead roles.