designing dreams: modern architecture in the movies

"Snow Blind"

1924

Art Director: Joseph Urban

"Il Perfido Incanto"

1916

Art Director: Enrico Prampolini

"Le Secret de Rosette Lambert"

1920

Art Director: Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"

1924

Art Directors (this set): 

Clause Autant-Lara and Alberto Cavalcanti 

"L'Inhumaine"

1924

Art Director: (this set): Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"

1924

Art Director: (this set): Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"

1924

Art Director: (this set): Fernand Léger

"Le Vertige"

(Actor Jaque Catelain pictured.)

1926

Art Directors: Robert Mallet-Stevens, 

Lucien Aguettand, André Lurcat

and Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"Le Vertige"

1926

Art Directors: Robert Mallet-Stevens, Lucien Aguettand, 

André Lurcat

and Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"L'Argent"

(Actors Pierre Alcover and Brigitte Helm pictured.)

1928

Art Directors: Lazre Meerson and Andree Barsacq

"Le P'tit Parigot"

1926

Art Directors: Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"Les Nouveaux Messiers"

1928

Art Director: Lazre Meerson

"Angst"

1928

Art Director: Franz Schroedter

"Trouble in Paradise"

1932

Supervisory Art Director: Hans Dreier

"Men Must Fight"

1933

Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons

"The Easiest Way"

1931

Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons

"Male and Female"

1919

 Art Director: Wilfred Buckland

"Gentlemen of the Press"

1929

Art Director: William Saulter

"Rackety Rax"

1932

Art Director: Gordon Wiles

"Broadway"

1929

 Art Director: Charles D. Hall

"Grand Hotel"

1932

Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons;

Unit Art Director: Alexander Toluboff

"The Tunnel"

1935

Art Director: Ernö Metzner

"Things to Come"

 1936

Art Director: Vincent Korda

"The Fountainhead"

1949

Architectural Delineator: Charles Bonestell

"The Fountainhead"

1949

Art Director: Edward Carrere

"The Fountainhead"

1949

Art Director: Edward Carrere

All images from:

"Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies"

by Dandy Don Albrecht

1986