Dreier (Hans) Collection of Motion Picture Set Designs, ca. 1920-1951

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Summary

Title:
Hans Dreier Collection of Motion Picture Set Designs,
Dates:
ca. 1920-1951
Creators:
Dreier, Hans, 1885-1966
Abstract:
Hans Dreier (1885-1966) was a set designer and art director at Famous Players-Lasky-Paramount and eventually became head of Paramount's art department. He received Academy Awards for Frenchmen's Creek (1944), Samson and Delilah (1949), and Sunset Boulevard (1950). The collection consists of photographs of motion picture sets as well as charcoal, watercolor, and pen and ink sketches by Dreier and his staff.
Extent:
2 oversize boxes
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Hans Dreier Collection of Motion Picture Set Designs (Collection 2110). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of materials related to Dreier's career as a set designer and art director. Includes photographs of motion picture sets as well as charcoal, watercolor, and pen and ink sketches by Dreier and his staff.

Biographical / historical:

Dreier was born August 21, 1885 in Bremen, Germany; was a student of architecture and a practicing architect in South Africa; he began his film career in 1919 at Universum Film Aktien Gesellschaft (UFA) in Berlin; moved to the U.S. in 1923 to join Famous Players-Lasky-Paramount and eventually became head of Paramount's art department, where he spent the rest of his career; he worked with directors such as Josef von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian, King Vidor, Billy Wilder, and Cecil B. DeMille; received Academy Awards for Frenchmen's Creek (1944), Samson and Delilah (1949), and Sunset Boulevard (1950); retired, 1951; died in 1966.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Diane Jergins, 1981.
Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
Date Prepared:
© 1998
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access or other database program, 1998 . Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Hans Dreier Collection of Motion Picture Set Designs (Collection 2110). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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