Mayo (costume designer)

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Mayo (born February 15, 1906 as Antoine Malliarakis in Port Said , Egypt , † October 1, 1990 in Seine-Port , France ) was a Greco-French costume designer , film architect and painter .

Life

Born in Egypt, the son of a Greek engineer who was involved in the construction of the Suez Canal at a young age and a French woman came to his mother's country at an early age. In France he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1924 and worked primarily as a painter in the 20s and 30s, but also designed sets for Parisian theaters. Since 1930 he had his own studio.

In 1943 Marcel Carné engaged him to design the extensive costumes in Children of Olympus . From then on, Mayo worked for around two decades as a costume designer and set designer for French cinema and was involved in the optical design of some top productions such as René Clair's The Pact with the Devil , Jacques Becker Goldhelm and a few other productions of Carné - Pforten der Nacht , Juliette and Thérèse Raquin - involved. Mayo achieved mastery above all for literary adaptations as well as for ambitious film pieces with a historical background (such as the large-scale Hollywood production Land of the Pharaohs ). In the early stages of the Nouvelle Vague , Mayo was also signed briefly ( Hiroshima, mon amour ).

As early as the early 1960s, Mayo largely withdrew from working for the cinema. In the middle of the same decade he settled in Rome to work again as a painter. After he gradually lost his sight, Mayo returned to France in 1984. In 1986 he was awarded the Orden Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French state .

Mayo's great-nephew is the actor Matila Malliarakis (* 1986).

Movies

as a costume designer, unless otherwise stated

  • 1943–45: Children of Olympus
  • 1945: Gates of the Night (Les portes de la nuit)
  • 1946: Dreams of Love (Rêves d'amour)
  • 1948: Barry - The Hero of St. Bernhard (Barry)
  • 1949: The pact with the devil
  • 1950: Juliette ou la clé des songes
  • 1951: Au cœur de la casbah (buildings only)
  • 1951: Three daughters of Eve (Trois femmes, trois âmes) (also buildings)
  • 1951: gold helmet
  • 1952: Mina de Vanghel (also buildings)
  • 1952: The scarlet curtain (Le rideau cramoisi) (also buildings)
  • 1953: Thérèse Raquin - you shall not commit adultery (Thérèse Raquin)
  • 1953: Act of Love
  • 1954: Land of the Pharaohs
  • 1955: Parisian air (Cette sacrée gamine)
  • 1955: Gervaise
  • 1957: The adventures of little Remi (Sans famille) (also buildings)
  • 1957: A Woman's Life (Une vie)
  • 1958: Those who deceive themselves (Les tricheurs)
  • 1959: Hiroshima, mon amour (buildings only)
  • 1960: Amélie ou le temps d'aimer
  • 1960: strike 12 in London
  • 1961: Comme un poisson dans l'eau (also appearance)
  • 1961: Léviathan
  • 1962: Food for cute birds (Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux)
  • 1965: Three rooms in Manhattan (Trois chambres à Manhattan) (only buildings)
  • 1966: The great coup of Casablanca (L'homme de Marrakech) (buildings only)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth 1905, which is often read, is wrong. 1906 is confirmed by the birth register, Extrait de naissance n ° DX.1987.0001.00082.

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 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 359.

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personal data
SURNAME Mayo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malliarakis, Antoine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greco-French costume designer, film architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Said , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1990
Place of death Seine Port , France