Fredric Hope

Fredric Putnam Hope ( also known as Frederick Hope, Frederic Hope or Fred Hope, born January 22, 1900 in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, † April 20, 1937 in Hollywood, California ) was an American art director and production designer or stage. For his work on the film The Merry Widow in 1934 he was awarded at the Academy Awards in 1935 along with Cedric Gibbons with the Oscar for Best Production Design. Two years later he was nominated along with Cedric Gibbons Edwin B. Willis and another time for an Oscar, but the production designer Richard Day was beaten in the end, for his work on the film time of love, time to say goodbye the Oscar for best Production Design received.

Life

Career

Born in New Brighton, Beaver County, a Borough of Pennsylvania in 1900, came in the 1920s on the West Coast of the United States, where he eventually settled in Hollywood and began his career in the film business. The first two well-known films in which he participated, were Exit Smiling and It was published in 1926, where he was responsible for the correct settings. Already at that time he worked with the award-winning production designer Cedric Gibbons, on its side in some movies he was active until the 1930s. In 1927 followed for Hope work on the film Becky, where he was primarily responsible for the sets. After at On Ze Boulevard his debut as an art director (though still on the side of Gibbons ) celebrated in the same year, he was employed in the following year for the film Baby Mine as set designer. After a few years without significant productions Hope started as an art director in 1933, where he was much employed by a number of film productions. So he was in 1933 in the films Another Language, Dinner at Eight, The Solitaire Man, The Boxer and the Lady and Ladies Should Behave as an art director in use. While one took over the sole work of the art director in Another Language and The Solitaire, he received support from each Hobe Erwin, David Townsend and Harry McAfee in the remaining films.

Also in 1934 Hope was successful with a number of films and worked as an art director at the Movies This Side of Heaven, Riptide and Hollywood party with. He was also in the same year as deputy art director in Sadie McKee and The Merry Widow in use. In both films he acted mostly on the side of Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis, who was also involved in both productions as deputy art director. For his involvement in the film The Merry Widow, he was honored at the Academy Awards in 1935 along with Cedric Gibbons with the Oscar for Best Production Design. Further work as a deputy, he -actuated in 1935 in the films The Night Is Young, Anna Karenina and escape from Paris, followed by a number of other engagements in the following year 1936. Way he was, among others, in an essential activity in the film Romeo and Juliet, for which he was nominated alongside Gibbons and Willis also for the Oscar, committed and was in the same year as deputy art director and the film the lady of the Camellias in use. Other uses as executive art director followed in the same year in the movies We Went to College, Women Are Trouble and Sworn Enemy. The last two productions in which Hope had played a major role, appeared in 1937 ( Maytime and Night Must Fall ). In the same year he died at the age of only 37 years in Hollywood; the cause of death is not known.

Family

Fredric Hope also had a son named Fredric Hope Paddock, who was also active as an art director as Fredric P. Hope and died 68 years old in 1998. His mother, who was the wife of Fredric Hope the same time, was the portrait and landscape painter Thelma Paddock Hope. Together, the two with Stephen Hope and Marcia Hope Young had two more children.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

• Oscars 1935: Awarded the " Academy Award for Best Production Design " for the film The Merry Widow (along with Cedric Gibbons )

• Academy Awards 1937: Nominated for the "Oscar for Best Production Design " for the film Romeo and Juliet (along with Cedric Gibbons, and Edwin B. Willis )