Julia Heron

Julia Heron ( born November 21, 1897 in Montana, † April 9, 1977 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American production designer who was nominated four times for an Oscar at the Academy Awards and the 1961 Academy Award for Best Production Design in the color film Spartacus was.

Biography

Her debut as a production designer, she gave in 1930 in the film Reaching for the Moon by Edmund Goulding. In 1936, she was responsible for the equipment in the movie Take what you can get, directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. After that, she was in 1935 for the second time art director in the film The Traitor by John Ford

In 1942, she was beside Vincent Korda for the production design in the color film of Lord Nelson nominated last love of Alexander Korda. At the Academy Awards 1943, her nomination for Best Production Design in the ink film The Jungle Book, and then at the Academy Awards in 1945 for Best Production Design in the black and white movie The man who came not to the wedding ( Casanova Brown). In 1952 she was responsible for the equipment in the film stormy trip to Alaska by Raoul Walsh.

In 1960 she was nominated for Best Production Design in the color film Fisherman of Galilee. The following year, she finally won the Oscar for the scene image in Spartacus.

In addition, she was involved and responsible as The Traitor (1935 ), Record of the scene image in other films, what you get can (1936 ), The Adventures of Marco Polo ( 1938), My husband, the Cowboy ( 1938), Wuthering Heights (1939 ), The long road to Cardiff ( 1940), uprising Troll Ness (1943 ), Watch on the Rhine (1943 ), The Tramp from Texas ( 1945), The best Years of Our lives (1946 ), Every woman needs an Angel (1947 ) My friend Harvey (1950). They also had some guest appearances in films such as The Westerner ( 1940).

In the 1950s and 1960s, they eventually created often the equipment and the production design for television series such as The Munsters, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and adult would have to be one.