Cary Odell

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Cary Odell (born September 20, 1910 in Indiana , † January 19, 1988 in San Luis Obispo , California ) was an American production designer for films.

Life

Cary Odell first worked as a set artist for Columbia Pictures from 1935 . For the lush backdrops of Frank Capra's fantasy film In the Fetters of Shangri-La ( Lost Horizon , 1937), he was inspired by the style of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for his drawings . In 1939 he was allowed to help design the production as an assistant for Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ). Three years later he came to Columbia for the first time as art director .

Over the years he has been nominated three times for an Oscar in the category Best Production Design, for example for Charles Vidor's Technicolor film musical Es tanzt die Göttin ( Cover Girl , 1944), Richard Quine's My Bride is Psychic ( Bell, Book and Candle , 1958) and John Frankenheimer's Seven days in May ( Seven days in May , 1964). However, he always came away empty-handed. From 1955 he also worked for US television before retiring from show business in 1974. He died in San Luis Obispo , California in 1988 at the age of 77 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kenneth Von Gunden: Flights of Fancy: The Great Fantasy Films . McFarland & Company, 1989, ISBN 0-7864-1214-3 , p. 131.