Gabriel Scognamillo
Gabriel Scognamillo ( born October 27, 1906 in New York City; † May 31, 1974 in Los Angeles ) was an American art director in France and Hollywood.
Life
The son of Italian immigrants attended from 1922 to 1925 the Accademia delle bell'arti in Rome and then returned to training back to New York. Initially Scognamillo worked as a freelance architect and stage, before it took Paramount Pictures to their studios on Long Iceland.
1930, with the dawn of the talkie era in France, the young producer Pierre Braunsberger brought him to Paris. There Gabriel Scognamillo designed in the following two years the buildings to several films, including central staging Jean Renoir (La chienne ) and Marc Allégrets ( Fanny ). 1934 Scognamillo returned to the United States home and went to Hollywood, where he was engaged by the MGM.
His first major production brought him together with Ernst Lubitsch, when he said to Lubitsch's operetta adaptation collaborated under the guidance of MGM chief architect Cedric Gibbons in the creation of the decorations The Merry Widow. Despite this fulminant stated acquisition is Scognamillo had to be content until 1950 mainly with second-rate contracts in an ancillary capacity (so-called associate art director ). In times of notorious underemployment Gabriel Scognamillo moved to television and created there screenshots for series or series such as The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriett and Westinghouse Playhouse. In between the designer created the World of Tomorrow for Disneyland and returned temporarily to the stage (Ice Capades, 1953).
In 1954, he received an Oscar nomination for his participation in the scene image to the Romance Was it true love? . Ten years later, Gabriel Scognamillo delivered his last major theater design for the fantasy film The Mysterious Dr. Lao.