Fredric Hope

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Fredric Putnam Hope (also known as Frederick Hope, Frederic Hope or Fred Hope * 22. January 1900 in New Brighton , Pennsylvania ; † 20th April 1937 in Hollywood , California ) was an American art director and stage and Production Designer . For his work on the film The Merry Widow from 1934, he was awarded the Oscar for best production design at the Academy Awards in 1935 together with Cedric Gibbons . Two years later he was nominated again for an Oscar together with Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis , but in the end had to admit defeat to the production designer Richard Day , who won the Oscar for his work on the film Time of Love, Time of Farewell received the best production design.

Life

Career

Born in 1900 in New Brighton , a borough of Beaver County in Pennsylvania , he came to the west coast of the USA in the 1920s , where he finally settled in Hollywood and began his career in the film business. The first two well-known films he worked on were Exit Smiling and It Was , which was released in 1926 and where he was responsible for the right settings. At that time he was already working with the award-winning production designer Cedric Gibbons , at whose side he was active in several films until the 1930s. In 1927 Hope worked on the film Becky , where he was mainly responsible for the sets. After he made his debut as art director at On Ze Boulevard in the same year (although still at Gibbons' side), he was employed as a set designer for the film Baby Mine the following year . After a few years without any productions worth mentioning, Hope started as art director in 1933, when he was very busy due to a number of film productions. In 1933 he worked as art director for the films Another Language , Dinner at eight , The Solitaire Man , The Boxer and the Lady and Should Ladies Behave . While he was the sole art director of Another Language and The Solitaire Man , he received support from Hobe Erwin , David Townsend and Harry McAfee in the remaining films .

In 1934 Hope was also successful with a number of films and worked as art director on the films This Side of Heaven , Riptide and Hollywood Party . In the same year he was also assistant art director in Sadie McKee and The Merry Widow . In both films he mostly acted alongside Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis, who was also employed as assistant art director in both productions. For his involvement in the film The Merry Widow , he and Cedric Gibbons were awarded the Oscar for best production design at the 1935 Academy Awards . He did other work as a deputy in 1935 in the films The Night Is Young , Anna Karenina and Flucht aus Paris , followed by a number of other engagements in the following year 1936. Among other things, he was involved in a major role in the film Romeo and Juliet , for which he was nominated for an Oscar in addition to Gibbons and Willis, and in the same year was also involved in the film The Lady of the Camellias as deputy art director . Further assignments as executive art director followed in the same year in the films We Went to College , Women Are Trouble and Sworn Enemy . The last two productions in which Hope played a key role appeared in 1937 ( May time and Night Must Fall ). In the same year he died in Hollywood at the age of only 37 ; Nothing is known about the cause of death.

family

Fredric Hope also had a son named Fredric Paddock Hope , who was also active as an art director as Fredric P. Hope and died in 1998 at the age of 68. His mother, who was also Fredric Hope's wife, was the portrait and landscape painter Thelma Paddock Hope . Together, they had two other children, Stephen Hope and Marcia Hope Young.

Filmography

As a production designer
  • 1926: Exit Smiling (Settings)
  • 1926: It was ( Flesh and the Devil ) (settings)
  • 1927: Becky (sets)
  • 1928: Baby Mine
  • 1936: Romeo and Juliet ( Romeo and Juliet )
As deputy art director
As art director
  • 1927: On Ze Boulevard
  • 1933: Another Language
  • 1933: Dinner at Eight ( Dinner at Eight )
  • 1933: The Solitaire Man
  • 1933: The Prizefighter and the Lady ( The Prizefighter and the Lady )
  • 1933: Should Ladies Behave
  • 1934: This Side of Heaven
  • 1934: Riptide
  • 1934: Hollywood Party
  • 1936: We Went to College
  • 1936: Women Are Trouble
  • 1936: Sworn Enemy

Awards and nominations

Awards
Nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fredric Hope in the 1910 United States Federal Census at ancestry.com , accessed January 5, 2010
  2. ↑ The Merry Widow in the NY Times Movie Directory , accessed January 5, 2010
  3. ↑ a b Obituary - Fredric P. Hope; Art Director, Entertainment Designer | Report in the LA Times on February 18, 1998 , accessed January 5, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Hope, Fredric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hope, Fredric Putnam (full name); Hope, Frederick; Hope, Frederic; Hope, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH New Brighton , Pennsylvania, USA
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1937
Place of death Hollywood , California, USA