Fay Babcock

Fay Clark Babcock (born June 15, 1895 in San Francisco , † November 12, 1970 in Los Angeles ) was an American film set designer .

Life

Fay Babcock first worked as a production designer for film in Hollywood in 1931 . But it wasn't until 1937 that she was one of the few women in her profession to get a permanent contract with Columbia Pictures . In 1943, along with Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad , she received her first Oscar nomination in the Best Production Design category for the comedy Witness of the Prosecution ( The Talk of the Town ) with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur . In 1945 there was another nomination for the Technicolor film musical Es tanzt die Göttin ( Cover Girl ) with Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly . From 1946 she worked as a freelance set decorator for various film studios. From the mid-1950s, she was also responsible for the sets of American television series. In 1962 she retired. She died in Los Angeles in 1970 at the age of 75 . Her grave is in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale .

1937: In the Shackles of Shangri-La ( Lost Horizon ) - Director: Frank Capra
1942: Witness for the Prosecution ( The Talk of the Town ) - Directed by George Stevens
1942: My Sister Ellen ( My Sister Eileen ) - Director: Alexander Hall
1943: More and More the Merrier ( The More the Merrier ) - Director: George Stevens
1944: The Goddess Dances ( Cover Girl ) - Director: Charles Vidor
1944: Model Against Will ( Together Again ) - Director: Charles Vidor
1947: Abgekartetes Spiel ( Framed ) - Director: Richard Wallace
1955: Escape to Burma - Director: Allan Dwan
1955: The Vanishing American - Director: Joseph Kane
1956: The Devil of Colorado ( The Maverick Queen ) - Director: Joseph Kane
1956: Gunpowder Steam and Hot Songs ( Love Me Tender ) - Director: Robert D. Webb
1956: 23 Paces to Baker Street ( 23 Paces to Baker Street ) - Director: Henry Hathaway
1957: Duel im Atlantik ( The Enemy Below ) - Director: Dick Powell
1961: The Gold of the Seven Mountains ( Gold of The Seven Saints ) - Director: Gordon Douglas

1943: Oscar nomination in the category Best Production Design for Witness for the Prosecution (together with Lionel Banks , Rudolph Sternad )
1945: Oscar nomination for Best Production Design for The Goddess Dances (together with Lionel Banks, Cary Odell )

personal data
SURNAME	Babcock, Fay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Babcock, Fay Clark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American production designer for a film
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1970
Place of death	los Angeles