Arthur Krams

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Arthur A. Krams (* 15. July 1912 in New York City , New York ; † 29. September 1985 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American art director and Designer , who at the Oscar ceremony in 1956 the Oscar for best production design and was nominated for an Oscar in this category seven more times.

Life

Krams began his career as art director and set designer in the Hollywood film industry in 1946 for the film Ball in the Embassy (Holiday in Mexico) and was involved in the production of almost seventy films until 1969.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1953 he received his first of seven Oscar nominations for Best Production Design and along with Cedric Gibbons , Paul Size and Edwin B. Willis for the color film The Merry Widow (The Merry Widow, 1952) by director Curtis Bernhardt by the operetta by Franz Lehár with Lana Turner , Fernando Lamas and Una Merkel in the leading roles . He was nominated twice at the Academy Awards in 1954 : On the one hand with Gibbons, Willis, E. Preston Ames , Edward C. Carfagno , Gabriel Scognamillo , F. Keogh Gleason and Jack D. Moore for the color film The Story of Three Loves (1953) directed by Vincente Minnelli and Gottfried Reinhardt with Kirk Douglas , James Mason and Leslie Caron , as well as with Gibbons, Groesse and Willis for the color film Lili (1953) by Charles Walters with Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer and Jean-Pierre Aumont .

In 1956 , he and Hal Pereira , Tambi Larsen and Sam Comer won the Oscar for best production design in the black and white film The Tattooed Rose (1955) based on the Tennessee Williams play of the same name, directed by Daniel Mann with Anna Magnani , Burt Lancaster and Marisa Pavan in the leading roles. He was also nominated in 1956 with Pereira, Comer and J. McMillan Johnson for another Oscar for best production design in a color film, namely for the feature film Over the Roofs of Nice (1955) with Cary Grant , Grace Kelly and directed by Alfred Hitchcock Jessie Royce Landis .

Together with Pereira, Comer and Walter H. Tyler , he was nominated for another Oscar in 1960 for best production design in the black and white film Career (1959), a drama directed by Anthony Mann with Dean Martin , Anthony Franciosa and Shirley MacLaine in the leading roles. Even with the Oscar ceremony in 1961 , he had, Pereira, Tyler and Lake nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in a black and white film, this time in the directed by Norman Taurog incurred science fiction film comedy Visit to a Small Planet (Visit to a Small Planet, 1960) with Jerry Lewis , Joan Blackman and Earl Holliman .

Krams received his last of seven Oscar nominations for best production design again in 1962 with Pereira, Tyler and Comer for the color film Sommer und Rauch (1961), a film drama directed by Peter Glenville based on a play by Tennessee Williams with Laurence Harvey , Geraldine Page and Rita Moreno in the lead roles.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1956 : Oscar for best production design in a black and white film

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personal data
SURNAME Krams, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krams, Arthur A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1985
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California