Julia Heron

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Julia Heron (* 21st November 1897 in Montana ; † 9. April 1977 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American production designer , four times for an Oscar was nominated in the Academy Awards in 1961 the Oscar for Best Production Design in the color film Spartacus received.

biography

She made her debut as a production designer in 1930 in the film Reaching for the Moon by Edmund Goulding . In 1936 she was responsible for the set in the film Take What You Can Get , directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler . After that, she was art director for the second time in the film The Traitor by John Ford in 1935 .

In 1942 she was next to Vincent Korda for the set design in the color film Lord Nelson's Last Love by Alexander Korda for an Oscar nomination. At the Academy Awards in 1943 she was nominated for the best production design in the color film The Jungle Book , then at the Academy Awards in 1945 for the best production design in the black and white film So ein Papa (Casanova Brown). In 1952 she was jointly responsible for the equipment in the film Storm Voyage to Alaska by Raoul Walsh .

In 1960 she was nominated for the best production design in the color film The Fisherman of Galilee . The following year she finally received the Oscar for the production design in Spartacus .

She was also involved in and responsible for the production design in other films such as Der Verräter (1935), Take What You Can Get (1936), The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938), My Man, the Cowboy (1938), Sturmhöhe (1939) ), The Long Road to Cardiff (1940), Uprising in Trollness (1943), Watch on the Rhine (1943), Knickerbocker Holiday (1944), The Vagabond of Texas (1945), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Any Woman Needs an Angel (1947), My Friend Harvey (1950). She also had some guest appearances in films such as The Westerner (1940).

In the 1950s and 1960s , she often created the equipment and production design for television series such as The Munsters , Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Growing Up .

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SURNAME Heron, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American production designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Montana
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1977
Place of death Los Angeles , California