Lyle Wheeler

Production Designer

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Also Known As

Lyle R Wheeler

Birth Place

Woburn, Massachusetts, USA

Born

February 02, 1905

Died

January 10, 1990

Cause of Death

Pneumonia

Biography

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Former magazine illustrator and industrial designer who began his film career in the mid-1930s. Wheeler was named supervising art director at 20th Century-Fox in 1944 and promoted to the head of the art department three years later. His distinguished work adorned everything from lush period melodramas ("Gone With the Wind" 1939), to dank film noirs ("Call Northside 777" 1948) to swank mu...

Filmography

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Flight To Holocaust (1977)

Perfect Gentlemen (1978)

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Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Grave Mistake, Sir

Star Is Born, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You Know What Your Chances Are

Biography

Former magazine illustrator and industrial designer who began his film career in the mid-1930s. Wheeler was named supervising art director at 20th Century-Fox in 1944 and promoted to the head of the art department three years later. His distinguished work adorned everything from lush period melodramas ("Gone With the Wind" 1939), to dank film noirs ("Call Northside 777" 1948) to swank musicals ("South Pacific" 1958). Son W Brooke Wheeler is a production designer who has worked on several recent J Lee Thompson films.

Filmography

Art Director (Feature Film)

Flight To Holocaust (1977)

Production Designer (Feature Film)

Perfect Gentlemen (1978)

Production Designer

Production Designer

Life Events

1936

First screen credit as art director, "The Garden of Allah"

1944

Became supervising art director at 20th Century-Fox

Videos

Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Grave Mistake, Sir One of two scenes for James Mason as Field Marshal Rommel (Reprising his role from The Desert Fox, 1951), happening upon captured British infantry officer MacRoberts (Richard Burton) in the medical tent, in Robert Wise's The Desert Rats, 1953.

Star Is Born, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You Know What Your Chances Are Looks to be the real office of the real Central Casting in Burbank as Esther (Janet Gaynor), in town for about a month, gets tough love from Peggy Wood, then her landlord (Edgar Kennedy) and meets new fellow tenant Danny (Andy Devine), early in David Selznick's A Star Is Born, 1937.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Diamonds Are A Girls's Best Friend Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei performing the famous number, by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, in the ocean liner lounge, costume by Travilla, set design by Lyle Wheeler, choreography by Jack Cole, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953.

Gone With The Wind (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Twelve Oaks Massive staging as Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) arrives at the Wilkes' plantation, meets Ashley (Leslie Howard), and Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) and spies Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) for the first time in Gone With The Wind, 1939.

Gone With The Wind (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Never Be Hungry Again! If ever a scene called for an intermission, Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) hears bad news from slaves (Butterfly McQueen, Hattie McDaniel), flees the house, and makes a vow, ending the first half of Gone With The Wind, 1939.

Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Your Dynastic Obligations English Rassendyll (Ronald Colman), who has bravely replaced his look-alike, the abducted king of Ruritania, at his coronation, makes instant progress with fiancee` Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll), who thinks he's the less gallant original, in David Selznick's The Prisoner of Zenda, 1937.

Garden Of Allah, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Look After Myself Following a dust-up in an Algerian cafe, fugitive monk Antoine (Charles Boyer) makes up a name, when queried by Domini (Marlene Dietrich), the French traveler he rescued from the fray, meeting a street mystic (John Carradine) along the way, The Garden Of Allah, 1936.

Garden Of Allah, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You May Find Yourself Staff and pupils (Helen Jerome Eddy, Marcia Mae Jones) at the convent are dazzled by beatifically framed Technicolor Marlene Dietrich as "Domini," greeted by Mother Superior (Lucile Watson), opening Richard Boleslawski's The Garden Of Allah, 1936, also starring Charles Boyer.

Family

Brooke Wheeler

Son

Art director.

Bibliography

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