Max Rée

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Max Rée (born October 7, 1889 in Copenhagen , † March 7, 1953 in Los Angeles , California ) was an art director , costume and production designer from Denmark who received the Oscar for best production design at the 1931 Academy Awards .

Life

Rée was initially a costume designer at Dagmarteatret in Copenhagen, later also in Stockholm and Berlin . After emigrating to the United States in 1925 , he began working as a costume designer in the Hollywood film industry at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , First National and RKO Pictures in the mid- 1920s , and after The Scarlett Letter (1926) worked as an art director, costume designer and set designer the creation of over 120 films with.

At the Academy Awards in 1931 he received the Oscar for best production design for pioneers of the wild west (1931).

Other films he helped create were Check and Double Check (1930), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and Carnegie Hall (1947). He worked with film directors such as Melville W. Brown , Wesley Ruggles , Max Reinhardt , William Dieterle and Edgar G. Ulmer .

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SURNAME Rée, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director, costume and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1953
Place of death Los Angeles , California