Gabriel Scognamillo

Gabriel Scognamillo (born October 27, 1906 in New York City , † May 31, 1974 in Los Angeles ) was an American film architect in France and Hollywood .

Life

The son of Italian immigrants attended the Accademia delle bell'arti in Rome from 1922 to 1925 and then returned to New York for further training. Scognamillo initially worked as a freelance architect and set designer before Paramount Pictures brought him to their studios on Long Island .

In 1930, with the dawn of the sound film age in France, the young producer Pierre Braunberger brought him to Paris. In the following two years, Gabriel Scognamillo designed the buildings for several films, including key productions by Jean Renoir (La chienne) and Marc Allégret (Fanny) . In 1934 Scognamillo returned to the United States and went to Hollywood , where he was hired by the MGM .

His first important production brought him together with Ernst Lubitsch , when he was working on the creation of the decorations for Lubitsch's operetta film The Merry Widow under the guidance of MGM chief architect Cedric Gibbons . Despite this brilliant debut, Scognamillo had to be content with second-rate assignments in a subordinate function (so-called associate art director ) until 1950 . In times of notorious underemployment, Gabriel Scognamillo switched to television, where he designed sets for series such as The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriett and Westinghouse Playhouse . In between, the designer created the World of Tomorrow for Disneyland and temporarily returned to the stage ( Ice Capades , 1953).

In 1954 he received an Oscar nomination for his involvement in the production design for the romance Was it the great love? . Ten years later, Gabriel Scognamillo delivered his last major cinema design for the fantasy film The Mysterious Dr. Lao .

Filmography

• 1931: Mam'zelle Nitouche
• 1931: La Petite chocolatière
• 1931: On purge bébé
• 1931: The Bitch (La Chienne)
• 1932: Baleydier
• 1932: Fanny
• 1932: Fantômas
• 1934: The merry widow
• 1936: Suzy
• 1936: The Avenger (Robin Hood of El Dorado)
• 1936: Bad Guy
• 1937: Moonlight Murder
• 1938: Murder as it is in the book (Fast Company)
• 1938: Dramatic School
• 1938: Rich Man Poor Girl
• 1939: Miracles for Sale
• 1939: Dr. Kildare: Under Suspicion (Calling Dr. Kildare)
• 1939: Fast and Loose
• 1939: Congo Maisie
• 1940: Andy Hardy meets debutante
• 1940: Gold Rush Maisie
• 1941: Down in San Diego
• 1941: Babes on Broadway
• 1942: For Me and My Gal
• 1942: Ghost Hunt in Dixie (Whistling in Dixie)
• 1943: Thousands Cheer
• 1946: High Barbaree
• 1947: Undercover Maisie
• 1947: Singapore (Singapore)
• 1948: The Man Without a Face (Rogues Regiment)
• 1949: Love Happy
• 1949: Blood feud in New York (Black Hand)
• 1950: The Dead in the Dunes (Mystery Street)
• 1950: The Lonely Champion (Right Cross)
• 1950: The great Caruso
• 1951: Meeting in Tunis (The Light Touch)
• 1951: It's a Big Country
• 1952: The sweet case (Love is Better Than Ever)
• 1952: Men make fashion (Lovely to Look at)
• 1952: was it great love? (The Story of Three Loves)
• 1953: Serenade in Rio (Latin Lovers)
• 1954: From the Life of a Doctor (Strange Lady in Town)
• 1960: The Tower of Screaming Women (Tormented)
• 1961: Massacre at Dawn (A Thunder of Drums)
• 1961: Twist All Night (The Continental Twist)
• 1963: The Balcony
• 1963: The mysterious Dr. Lao (7 Faces of Dr. Lao)
• 1969: Angel Angel Down We Go

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 221.

Web links

• Gabriel Scognamillo in the Internet Movie Database (English)