Lionel Banks

Lionel Cornelius Banks ( born June 22, 1901 in Salt Lake City, Utah, † March 20, 1950 in Mandeville Canyon, Los Angeles) was an American Designer.

Life

Lionel Banks came in 1901 as son of Cornelius Hopkin Banks ( 1873-1961 ) and Mattie Luella Bess ( 1879-1929 ) in Salt Lake City to the world. He started his film career in 1935 as a production designer and in 1937 was put under contract by Columbia Pictures, where he is already in the same year for the first time as an art director for Leo McCareys film comedy The Awful Truth ( The Awful Truth ) was used. Until 1948 he was involved in over 200 film productions, where he worked with several renowned directors such as Frank Capra, George Cukor or Howard Hawks.

Throughout his career, he was - mostly with other scene formers - seven times nominated for Best Art Direction Academy Award in the category, such as for Cukor's The Sister of the Bride (Holiday, 1938) with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Capra's Mr. Smith goes to Washington ( Mr. Smith goes to Washington, 1939) with James Stewart or Charles Vidor's Technicolor film musical Cover Girl ( Cover Girl, 1944) with Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. However, he could never win an Oscar. In 1948 he designed the last time the scenes for a movie. Banks, who was married to Adalena Lavee Peterson (1905-1960), died in 1950 at the age of only 48 years in Los Angeles.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

Best Art

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