Richard Day

Production Designer

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Also Known As

Richard W Day

Birth Place

Victoria, British Columbia, CA

Born

May 09, 1896

Died

May 23, 1972

Biography

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One of Hollywood's most distinguished art directors, with MGM from 1923 to 1930 and 20th Century-Fox (as head of the art department) from 1939 to 1943. During his collaboration with Erich von Stroheim in the 1920s, Day developed a distinctive, realist style which he put to outstanding use in numerous subsequent films and which earned him seven Academy Awards....

Filmography

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The House of Rothschild (1934)

2nd Unit Director

The Wedding March (1928)

Assistant Director

Never Love a Stranger (1958)

Never Love a Stranger (1958)

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

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Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Keep A Joad In Jail

Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Killed Him

Biography

One of Hollywood's most distinguished art directors, with MGM from 1923 to 1930 and 20th Century-Fox (as head of the art department) from 1939 to 1943. During his collaboration with Erich von Stroheim in the 1920s, Day developed a distinctive, realist style which he put to outstanding use in numerous subsequent films and which earned him seven Academy Awards.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

2nd Unit Director

The Wedding March (1928)

Assistant Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Never Love a Stranger (1958)

Producer (Feature Film)

Never Love a Stranger (1958)

Art Director (Feature Film)

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

The Boston Strangler (1968)

The Sweet Ride (1968)

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

The Happening (1967)

Production Design

The Chase (1966)

Production Design

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Goodbye Charlie (1964)

Something Wild (1961)

Solomon and Sheba (1959)

On the Waterfront (1954)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1952)

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

Cry Danger (1951)

I Want You (1951)

Our Very Own (1950)

Edge of Doom (1950)

My Foolish Heart (1950)

Force of Evil (1949)

Joan of Arc (1948)

Captain from Castile (1948)

Moss Rose (1947)

Boomerang! (1947)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Forever Amber (1947)

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now? (1947)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Mother Wore Tights (1947)

Claudia and David (1946)

Supervisor art Director

Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)

Supervisor art Director

The Razor's Edge (1946)

Time to Kill (1943)

Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)

Over My Dead Body (1943)

Quiet Please Murder (1943)

The Meanest Man in the World (1943)

Immortal Sergeant (1943)

Margin for Error (1943)

Coney Island (1943)

Dixie Dugan (1943)

Crash Dive (1943)

China Girl (1943)

My Friend Flicka (1943)

Chetniks! (1943)

He Hired the Boss (1943)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

The Black Swan (1942)

Roxie Hart (1942)

Springtime in the Rockies (1942)

The Man in the Trunk (1942)

Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)

Careful Soft Shoulder (1942)

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)

Young America (1942)

To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)

A Gentleman at Heart (1942)

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942)

The Pied Piper (1942)

Secret Agent of Japan (1942)

Song of the Islands (1942)

Right to the Heart (1942)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

The Magnificent Dope (1942)

Son of Fury (1942)

On the Sunny Side (1942)

Thunder Birds (1942)

The Night Before the Divorce (1942)

Manila Calling (1942)

It Happened in Flatbush (1942)

Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)

The Undying Monster (1942)

The Lone Star Ranger (1942)

Sundown Jim (1942)

The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)

Castle in the Desert (1942)

That Other Woman (1942)

Blue, White and Perfect (1942)

Thru Different Eyes (1942)

This Above All (1942)

Footlight Serenade (1942)

Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)

My Gal Sal (1942)

Whispering Ghosts (1942)

Berlin Correspondent (1942)

The Mad Martindales (1942)

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Just Off Broadway (1942)

A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)

Orchestra Wives (1942)

Moontide (1942)

Girl Trouble (1942)

Remember the Day (1942)

Dance Hall (1941)

Man at Large (1941)

Last of the Duanes (1941)

Dressed to Kill (1941)

Charley's Aunt (1941)

Wild Geese Calling (1941)

The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941)

Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1941)

Man Hunt (1941)

Small Town Deb (1941)

Marry the Bo$$'$ Daughter (1941)

The Perfect Snob (1941)

Golden Hoofs (1941)

Great Guns (1941)

Cadet Girl (1941)

Sleepers West (1941)

Scotland Yard (1941)

A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)

We Go Fast (1941)

Moon Over Her Shoulder (1941)

Riders of the Purple Sage (1941)

Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941)

Romance of the Rio Grande (1941)

The Bride Wore Crutches (1941)

Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)

That Night in Rio (1941)

For Beauty's Sake (1941)

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Swamp Water (1941)

Rise and Shine (1941)

Ride on Vaquero (1941)

Hudson's Bay (1941)

Private Nurse (1941)

Accent on Love (1941)

Blood and Sand (1941)

Tobacco Road (1941)

Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)

Belle Starr (1941)

Moon Over Miami (1941)

Confirm or Deny (1941)

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

The Great American Broadcast (1941)

A Very Young Lady (1941)

Western Union (1941)

Dead Men Tell (1941)

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

Murder Among Friends (1941)

Week-End in Havana (1941)

Sailor's Lady (1940)

Little Old New York (1940)

Four Sons (1940)

The Girl from Avenue A (1940)

City of Chance (1940)

Chad Hanna (1940)

Maryland (1940)

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)

Down Argentine Way (1940)

Johnny Apollo (1940)

I Was an Adventuress (1940)

Street of Memories (1940)

Young As You Feel (1940)

The Blue Bird (1940)

Young People (1940)

Earthbound (1940)

Free, Blonde and 21 (1940)

High School (1940)

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Lillian Russell (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Youth Will Be Served (1940)

Star Dust (1940)

Swanee River (1940)

Yesterday's Heroes (1940)

Charter Pilot (1940)

The Return of Frank James (1940)

He Married His Wife (1940)

Shooting High (1940)

On Their Own (1940)

The Great Profile (1940)

Manhattan Heartbeat (1940)

The Man I Married (1940)

The Gay Caballero (1940)

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)

Murder over New York (1940)

Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1 (1940)

Viva Cisco Kid (1940)

Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)

Girl in 313 (1940)

The Jones Family in Quick Millions (1939)

Day-Time Wife (1939)

Boy Friend (1939)

The Honeymoon's Over (1939)

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)

Chicken Wagon Family (1939)

20,000 Men a Year (1939)

Stop--Look and Love (1939)

The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)

Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)

Pack Up Your Troubles (1939)

Frontier Marshal (1939)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Second Fiddle (1939)

Chasing Danger (1939)

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

It Could Happen to You (1939)

The Gorilla (1939)

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Everything Happens at Night (1939)

News Is Made at Night (1939)

Too Busy to Work (1939)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women (1939)

The Escape (1939)

The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)

Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

City in Darkness (1939)

Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)

Winner Take All (1939)

Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1939)

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)

The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939)

Rose of Washington Square (1939)

The Little Princess (1939)

Ballet settings

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

Dead End (1937)

The Hurricane (1937)

Woman Chases Man (1937)

Stella Dallas (1937)

One Rainy Afternoon (1936)

Beloved Enemy (1936)

These Three (1936)

The Gay Desperado (1936)

Dodsworth (1936)

Come and Get It (1936)

Strike Me Pink (1936)

Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)

Metropolitan (1935)

The Call of the Wild (1935)

Cardinal Richelieu (1935)

Barbary Coast (1935)

The Dark Angel (1935)

Les Misérables (1935)

Clive of India (1935)

Splendor (1935)

The Wedding Night (1935)

The Mighty Barnum (1934)

Moulin Rouge (1934)

The Affairs of Cellini (1934)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

We Live Again (1934)

Looking for Trouble (1934)

Kid Millions (1934)

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)

The Last Gentleman (1934)

Born to Be Bad (1934)

Gallant Lady (1934)

Roman Scandals (1933)

The Masquerader (1933)

Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)

Hallelujah I'm a Bum (1933)

Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)

The Bowery (1933)

Cock of the Air (1932)

The Kid from Spain (1932)

Sky Devils (1932)

The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)

Palmy Days (1931)

The Front Page (1931)

The Age for Love (1931)

Indiscreet (1931)

Arrowsmith (1931)

One Heavenly Night (1931)

The Unholy Garden (1931)

Street Scene (1931)

The Devil to Pay (1930)

Whoopee! (1930)

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)

The Wedding March (1928)

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928)

Queen Kelly (1928)

Adam and Evil (1927)

The Unknown (1927)

Beverly of Graustark (1926)

His Secretary (1925)

Sinners in Silk (1924)

Foolish Wives (1922)

Costume-Wardrobe (Feature Film)

The Merry Widow (1925)

Merry-Go-Round (1923)

Art Department (Feature Film)

L'homme des Folies Bergère (1935)

Rose-Marie (1928)

Forbidden Hours (1928)

Wickedness Preferred (1928)

The Enemy (1928)

Tea for Three (1927)

After Midnight (1927)

The Show (1927)

The Road to Romance (1927)

Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)

The Only Thing (1925)

The Merry Widow (1925)

Bright Lights (1925)

Merry-Go-Round (1923)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Young Lovers (1964)

Post Production (Feature Film)

The Goldwyn Follies (1938)

Designer in col by

Life Events

1919

Worked as set decorator on "Blind Husbands"

1922

First film as art director, "Foolish Wives"

Videos

Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Keep A Joad In Jail Paroled Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) finally finds his family, Grandma and Grandpa (Zeffie Tilbury, Charley Grapewin) tangling, Pa (Russell Simpson) suggesting California, Ma (Jane Darwell) the first to notice, camera by Gregg Toland, in John Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath, 1940, from the Steinbeck novel.

Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Killed Him Al (O.Z. Whitehead) driving, Ma (Jane Darwell) philosophical, setting out for California, Grandpa (Charley Grapewin) the first casualty, Pa and Tom (Russell Simpson, Henry Fonda) managing, Casy (John Carradine) little help, in John Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath, 1940, from John Steinbeck's book.

Folies Bergere De Paris (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Rhythm Of The Night After a modest opening number and wardrobe change, Paris entertainer Charlier (Maurice Chevalier) with a big one, song by Jack Stern and Jack Meskill, dance by Dave Gould, Ann Sothern as partner Mimi, opening the Darryl Zanuck 20th Century Fox musical Folies Bergere De Paris, 1935.

How Green Was My Valley (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Here's A Man Won't Get Drunk After the wedding of Welsh Bronwyn (Anna Lee) and Owen (Patric Knowles), his young brother Huw watches, the new preacher and celebrant (Walter Pidgeon) arrives, greeted by sister (Maureen O'Hara), and the father (Donald Crisp) with a nutty dance, director John Ford loving it, in How Green Was My Valley, 1941.

Hallelujah I'm A Bum (1933) -- (Movie Clip) P.S. 44 Dist. 11 The mayor (Frank Morgan) lays a groundstone, musical dialogue by Rodgers and Hart, fancy editing by W. Duncan Mansfield, Richard Rodgers' cameo assisting the photographer, in Lewis Milestone's Hallelujah I'm A Bum, 1933.

Drums Along The Mohawk - (Original Trailer) Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert try to make a home in the frontier of colonial America in John Ford's Drums Along The Mohawk (1939).

Little Princess, The - (Original Trailer) Shirley Temple stars in her first color movie, The Little Princess (1939), as an orphan who must endure a nasty headmistress.

Happening, The - (Original Trailer) A kidnapped gangster (Anthony Quinn) joins forces with the hipsters who abducted him in The Happening (1967).

Grapes of Wrath, The - (Original Trailer) Henry Fonda stars in John Ford's movie version of the John Steinbeck novel about Depression-era migrants, The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

Exodus - (Textless trailer) Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint lead an all-star cast in Otto Preminger's epic about the formation of the modern state of Israel, Exodus (1960).

Chase, The - (Original Trailer) A convict's escape ignites passions in his hometown in The Chase (1966) starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The - (Original Trailer) A spirited widow (Gene Tierney) rents a haunted cottage and builds an emotional bond with the resident ghost (Rex Harrison) in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Sun Valley Serenade - (Re-issue trailer) A Norwegian war orphan (Sonja Henie) adopted by a pianist as a publicity stunt turns out to be a beautiful young woman in Sun Valley Serenade (1941).

Greatest Story Ever Told, The - (Original Trailer) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) is an epic re-telling of the life of Christ, directed by George Stevens and starring Max Von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains and many more

How Green Was My Valley - (Re-issue Trailer) Five Oscars®, including Best Picture and Director, went to John Ford's portrait of a Welsh mining town, How Green Was My Valley (1941).

Black Swan, The - (Original Trailer) When he's named governor of Jamaica, a former pirate sets out to clean up the Caribbean in The Black Swan, 1942, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.

Rose of Washington Square - (Re-issue Trailer) A singer (Alice Faye) struggles to keep her criminal boyfriend (Tyrone Power) from trouble in Rose of Washington Square (1939).

Roxie Hart - (Original teaser trailer) To try and kick-start her show-business career, a woman (Ginger Rogers) admits to a Chicago murder in Roxie Hart (1942).

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