Frank E. Hughes

Frank Edgar Hughes (* 14. June 1893 in Kern County , California ; † 26. April 1947 ) was an American art director , who in 1946 for the Oscar for Best Production Design was nominated and Oscar in this category at the Academy Awards in 1947 won .

Life

Hughes began his career as an art director and production designer in the Hollywood film industry in 1927 for the film Time To Love and worked on the staging of over twenty films until 1947.

At the Academy Awards in 1946 he was with James Basevi , William S. Darling and Thomas Little for the Oscar for Best Production Design in the black and white film Keys of the Kingdom (The Keys of the Kingdom, 1944), one of John M. Stahl with staged Drama Gregory Peck , Thomas Mitchell and Vincent Price in the lead roles .

Together with R. Lyle Wheeler , Darling and Little he won the Oscar in this category in 1947 for the black and white film Anna and the King of Siam (1946), one on the eponymous novel by Margaret Landon based film adaptation directed by John Cromwell with Irene Dunne , Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell .

Filmography (selection)

• 1927: Time To Love
• 1942: Quiet Please: Murder
• 1943: Coney Island
• 1943: The song of Bernadette
• 1944: The lifeboat
• 1944: Home in Indiana (Home in Indiana)
• 1945: A tree grows in Brooklyn
• 1945: Don Juan Quilligan
• 1946: If I'm Lucky
• 1947: The Brasher Doubloon

Awards

• 1947 : Oscar for the best production design in a black and white film

Web links

• Frank E. Hughes in the Internet Movie Database (English)