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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Stephen Goosson papers
Creator:
Goossón, Stephen, 1889-1973
Identifier/Call Number: 2492
Physical Description:
1.75 Linear Feet
1 box and 1 oversize folder
Date (inclusive): 1920-1945
Abstract: This collection chiefly contains set design drawings by American movie set designer and art director Stephen Goosson (1889-1973)
for various films Goosson worked on from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Language of Material:
English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Stephen Goosson, August 28, 1972.
Stephen Goosson (1889-1973) was an American film set designer and art director chiefly from the late 1910s to the 1940s. He
was an architect in Detroit, Michigan (1915-1919), before moving to Hollywood to work for Lewis Selznick (1919), Mary Pickford
(1920-1921), and Joseph M. Schenck (1921-1925), First National (1925-1927) and then as chief art director for Columbia Pictures
(1934-1935, 1944-1948). While at Columbia, he worked on all the Frank Capra productions. In the mid 1940s, he became an oil
painter.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Stephen Goosson papers, Collection no. 2492, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
This collection chiefly contains set design drawings by American movie set designer and art director Stephen Goosson for various
films Goosson worked on from the 1920s to the 1940s. The drawings consist of set designs for Blind Youth (1 sketch), East
is West (1 sketch); Feather in Your Hat (2 sketches), The Flame in the Dark (2 plans and 4 sketches), A Thousand and One Nights
(18 sketches), an unproduced Frank Capra film about Chopin (photograph reproductions of 19 sketches), and 10 unidentified
set sketches. There is also a compact disc containing four scans of sketches for The Love Light. There are also two production
stills for Little Lord Fauntleroy and some architectural sketches. In addition, there is a 1972 letter from Goosson describing
some of his work and a biographical note and some photocopied biographical information.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library
at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Motion picture set designers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Set designers -- United States -- Archival resources
Drawings
Set design drawings
Goossón, Stephen, 1889-1973 -- Archives