Hans Dreier

Production Designer

About

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Birth Place

Bremen, DE

Born

August 21, 1885

Died

October 24, 1966

Biography

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Began his film career with UFA in 1919 and came to the US four years later. Dreier was skilled at creating foreign locales on the studio lot, a talent frequently drawn on by European directors such as Josef von Sternberg, Rouben Mamoulian and Ernst Lubitsch. He was head of Paramount's design department from 1928 to 1951 and created the sets for 11 Cecil B. DeMille films between 1933 and ...

Filmography

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A Place in the Sun (1951)

September Affair (1951)

Fancy Pants (1950)

Dear Wife (1950)

The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)

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Devil Is A Woman, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Better Take Two

Lost Weekend, The - (Original Trailer)

Biography

Began his film career with UFA in 1919 and came to the US four years later. Dreier was skilled at creating foreign locales on the studio lot, a talent frequently drawn on by European directors such as Josef von Sternberg, Rouben Mamoulian and Ernst Lubitsch. He was head of Paramount's design department from 1928 to 1951 and created the sets for 11 Cecil B. DeMille films between 1933 and 1949. A gifted artist and one of Hollywood's premiere art directors, Dreier worked with many major figures in his lengthy and distinguished career. To Dreier goes considerable credit for the lush Continental elegance and soft gradations of the gray scale which marked Paramount's distinctive black-and-white period of the 1920s and 30s. He proved equally adept at handling the changes of the 40s, from the demands of color in lavish period epics to the gloomy romanticism of film noir.

Filmography

Art Director (Feature Film)

A Place in the Sun (1951)

September Affair (1951)

Fancy Pants (1950)

Dear Wife (1950)

The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)

Paid in Full (1950)

Mr. Music (1950)

Dark City (1950)

Copper Canyon (1950)

No Man of Her Own (1950)

Let's Dance (1950)

My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)

Riding High (1950)

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

The Furies (1950)

Union Station (1950)

Samson and Delilah (1950)

Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)

Sorrowful Jones (1949)

The Accused (1949)

Whispering Smith (1949)

Rope of Sand (1949)

My Friend Irma (1949)

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)

Chicago Deadline (1949)

Top O' the Morning (1949)

The Great Lover (1949)

Streets of Laredo (1949)

The Great Gatsby (1949)

My Own True Love (1949)

Bride of Vengeance (1949)

Red, Hot and Blue (1949)

Song of Surrender (1949)

The Paleface (1948)

A Foreign Affair (1948)

I Walk Alone (1948)

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

Beyond Glory (1948)

The Emperor Waltz (1948)

Dream Girl (1948)

The Big Clock (1948)

Sealed Verdict (1948)

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)

The Sainted Sisters (1948)

Isn't It Romantic (1948)

My Favorite Brunette (1947)

California (1947)

Cross My Heart (1947)

The Imperfect Lady (1947)

Road to Rio (1947)

The Perils of Pauline (1947)

The Trouble with Women (1947)

Suddenly, It's Spring (1947)

Where There's Life (1947)

Wild Harvest (1947)

Dear Ruth (1947)

Calcutta (1947)

Ladies' Man (1947)

Unconquered (1947)

Golden Earrings (1947)

Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)

Variety Girl (1947)

Welcome Stranger (1947)

Blaze of Noon (1947)

Road to Utopia (1946)

The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

The Searching Wind (1946)

Blue Skies (1946)

The Well Groomed Bride (1946)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Masquerade in Mexico (1946)

Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)

Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946)

Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)

Two Years Before the Mast (1946)

To Each His Own (1946)

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

The Virginian (1946)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)

Supervisor art Director

Incendiary Blonde (1945)

Murder, He Says (1945)

Duffy's Tavern (1945)

The Unseen (1945)

Bring on the Girls (1945)

Hold That Blonde (1945)

Salty O'Rourke (1945)

Love Letters (1945)

The Affairs of Susan (1945)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

The Stork Club (1945)

You Came Along (1945)

Out of This World (1945)

A Medal for Benny (1945)

Ministry of Fear (1944)

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Rainbow Island (1944)

The National Barn Dance (1944)

Lady in the Dark (1944)

The Man in Half Moon Street (1944)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

The Hitler Gang (1944)

I Love a Soldier (1944)

The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Standing Room Only (1944)

Here Come the Waves (1944)

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret (1944)

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid (1944)

Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout (1944)

Frenchman's Creek (1944)

Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

Going My Way (1944)

The Great Moment (1944)

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)

You Can't Ration Love (1944)

Till We Meet Again (1944)

The Uninvited (1944)

Practically Yours (1944)

And the Angels Sing (1944)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Star Spangled Rhythm (1943)

True to Life (1943)

Young and Willing (1943)

The Good Fellows (1943)

The Crystal Ball (1943)

Happy Go Lucky (1943)

Riding High (1943)

Henry Aldrich Swings It (1943)

Salute for Three (1943)

Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943)

Hostages (1943)

So Proudly We Hail! (1943)

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

No Time for Love (1943)

Let's Face It (1943)

Night Plane from Chungking (1943)

Lady Bodyguard (1943)

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943)

Night in New Orleans (1942)

Take a Letter, Darling (1942)

Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942)

I Married a Witch (1942)

Holiday Inn (1942)

Road to Morocco (1942)

My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)

The Glass Key (1942)

The Fleet's In (1942)

Priorities on Parade (1942)

True to the Army (1942)

The Great Man's Lady (1942)

Wake Island (1942)

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)

Lucky Jordan (1942)

The Forest Rangers (1942)

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

My Favorite Blonde (1942)

Sullivan's Travels (1942)

Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)

Fly-by-Night (1942)

Sweater Girl (1942)

This Gun for Hire (1942)

Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)

The Remarkable Andrew (1942)

The Major and the Minor (1942)

Henry and Dizzy (1942)

The Lady Has Plans (1942)

Dr. Broadway (1942)

Street of Chance (1942)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

There's Magic in Music (1941)

Las Vegas Nights--"The Last Frontier Town" (1941)

Henry Aldrich for President (1941)

Night of January 16th (1941)

Bahama Passage (1941)

Glamour Boy (1941)

Aloma of the South Seas (1941)

The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

Pacific Blackout (1941)

Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)

Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Louisiana Purchase (1941)

Birth of the Blues (1941)

I Wanted Wings (1941)

West Point Widow (1941)

Virginia (1941)

Reaching for the Sun (1941)

Among the Living (1941)

New York Town (1941)

Caught in the Draft (1941)

World Premiere (1941)

Nothing But the Truth (1941)

Road to Zanzibar (1941)

The Lady Eve (1941)

The Monster and the Girl (1941)

The Mad Doctor (1941)

One Night in Lisbon (1941)

You're the One (1941)

Buy Me That Town (1941)

Life with Henry (1941)

Queen of the Mob (1940)

I Want a Divorce (1940)

Love Thy Neighbor (1940)

A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)

Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Rhythm on the River (1940)

Mystery Sea Raider (1940)

Remember the Night (1940)

Women Without Names (1940)

Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)

The Great McGinty (1940)

The Light That Failed (1940)

Adventure in Diamonds (1940)

Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)

Road to Singapore (1940)

The Biscuit Eater (1940)

Emergency Squad (1940)

Those Were the Days! (1940)

Opened by Mistake (1940)

Comin' Round the Mountain (1940)

Parole Fixer (1940)

Rangers of Fortune (1940)

Golden Gloves (1940)

Christmas in July (1940)

The Farmer's Daughter (1940)

Arise, My Love (1940)

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

The Quarterback (1940)

Seventeen (1940)

Dancing on a Dime (1940)

Geronimo (1940)

Moon over Burma (1940)

The Way of All Flesh (1940)

Grand Jury Secrets (1939)

Boy Trouble (1939)

Honeymoon in Bali (1939)

The Night of Nights (1939)

What a Life (1939)

Invitation to Happiness (1939)

The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Persons in Hiding (1939)

The Magnificent Fraud (1939)

Death of a Champion (1939)

Island of Lost Men (1939)

Unmarried (1939)

I'm from Missouri (1939)

Sudden Money (1939)

$1,000 a Touchdown (1939)

The Star Maker (1939)

Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)

Television Spy (1939)

Disbarred (1939)

Disputed Passage (1939)

Million Dollar Legs (1939)

Midnight (1939)

Paris Honeymoon (1939)

All Women Have Secrets (1939)

Beau Geste (1939)

Our Neighbors--the Carters (1939)

Hotel Imperial (1939)

The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)

The Great Victor Herbert (1939)

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)

Never Say Die (1939)

Our Leading Citizen (1939)

Some Like It Hot (1939)

Saint Louis Blues (1939)

The Lady's from Kentucky (1939)

Undercover Doctor (1939)

Rulers of the Sea (1939)

Night Work (1939)

Man About Town (1939)

King of Chinatown (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

Cafe Society (1939)

College Swing (1938)

Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)

Tropic Holiday (1938)

You and Me (1938)

If I Were King (1938)

Stolen Heaven (1938)

Scandal Street (1938)

Sing You Sinners (1938)

Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)

King of Alcatraz (1938)

Romance in the Dark (1938)

Campus Confessions (1938)

Thrill of a Lifetime (1938)

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)

Tip-Off Girls (1938)

Sons of the Legion (1938)

Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)

Prison Farm (1938)

The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Artists and Models Abroad (1938)

Cocoanut Grove (1938)

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1938)

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Her Jungle Love (1938)

Give Me a Sailor (1938)

Hunted Men (1938)

Illegal Traffic (1938)

Say It in French (1938)

The Arkansas Traveler (1938)

The Texans (1938)

Touchdown, Army (1938)

Dangerous to Know (1938)

Men with Wings (1938)

Spawn of the North (1938)

The Buccaneer (1938)

Daughter of Shanghai (1938)

Night Club Scandal (1937)

Easy Living (1937)

Born to the West (1937)

High, Wide and Handsome (1937)

Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

True Confession (1937)

Hold 'Em Navy! (1937)

Night of Mystery (1937)

Murder Goes to College (1937)

Champagne Waltz (1937)

Partners in Crime (1937)

Double or Nothing (1937)

Clarence (1937)

Wells Fargo (1937)

Internes Can't Take Money (1937)

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)

Turn Off the Moon (1937)

This Way Please (1937)

Ebb Tide (1937)

Artists and Models (1937)

The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)

Exclusive (1937)

Forlorn River (1937)

I Met Him in Paris (1937)

King of Gamblers (1937)

Hotel Haywire (1937)

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Blonde Trouble (1937)

The Last Train from Madrid (1937)

Wild Money (1937)

Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)

The Plainsman (1937)

Maid of Salem (1937)

Souls at Sea (1937)

Waikiki Wedding (1937)

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)

Thunder Trail (1937)

Mountain Music (1937)

Drift Fence (1936)

Princess Comes Across (1936)

The Sky Parade (1936)

College Holiday (1936)

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)

Hollywood Boulevard (1936)

Easy to Take (1936)

The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)

13 Hours by Air (1936)

Yours for the Asking (1936)

Three Cheers for Love (1936)

The Jungle Princess (1936)

The Texas Rangers (1936)

Girl of the Ozarks (1936)

Wedding Present (1936)

Early to Bed (1936)

Rose Bowl (1936)

Forgotten Faces (1936)

The Bride Comes Home (1936)

The Milky Way (1936)

Hideaway Girl (1936)

The Accusing Finger (1936)

Murder with Pictures (1936)

Straight from the Shoulder (1936)

And Sudden Death (1936)

Too Many Parents (1936)

Wives Never Know (1936)

Woman Trap (1936)

Give Us This Night (1936)

Timothy's Quest (1936)

Let's Make a Million (1936)

Three Married Men (1936)

Rhythm on the Range (1936)

The Arizona Raiders (1936)

The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)

A Son Comes Home (1936)

The General Died at Dawn (1936)

Border Flight (1936)

The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)

Florida Special (1936)

Arizona Mahoney (1936)

Lady Be Careful (1936)

Anything Goes (1936)

Klondike Annie (1936)

Rose of the Rancho (1936)

My American Wife (1936)

Desert Gold (1936)

Till We Meet Again (1936)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Here Comes Cookie (1935)

Peter Ibbetson (1935)

Two Fisted (1935)

College Scandal (1935)

Two for Tonight (1935)

Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)

The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

Mississippi (1935)

Hands Across the Table (1935)

It's a Great Life! (1935)

Annapolis Farewell (1935)

People Will Talk (1935)

Love in Bloom (1935)

The Virginia Judge (1935)

Ship Cafe (1935)

Four Hours to Kill! (1935)

Without Regret (1935)

The Last Outpost (1935)

Wings in the Dark (1935)

The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

Paris in Spring (1935)

Artistic sets by

Collegiate (1935)

Accent on Youth (1935)

Goin' to Town (1935)

Millions in the Air (1935)

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

The Glass Key (1935)

All the King's Horses (1935)

The Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Coronado (1935)

Men Without Names (1935)

Stolen Harmony (1935)

So Red the Rose (1935)

Enter Madame! (1934)

Melody in Spring (1934)

The Trumpet Blows (1934)

We're Not Dressing (1934)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Search for Beauty (1934)

You Belong to Me (1934)

Come On Marines! (1934)

Shoot the Works (1934)

Here Is My Heart (1934)

Home on the Range (1934)

The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)

One Hour Late (1934)

She Loves Me Not (1934)

The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)

All of Me (1934)

Now and Forever (1934)

Father Brown, Detective (1934)

Ready for Love (1934)

Little Miss Marker (1934)

The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)

You're Telling Me! (1934)

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)

College Rhythm (1934)

The Last Round-Up (1934)

Kiss and Make-Up (1934)

It's a Gift (1934)

Double Door (1934)

Murder at the Vanities (1934)

Wharf Angel (1934)

Good Dame (1934)

Thirty Day Princess (1934)

Cleopatra (1934)

Behold My Wife! (1934)

Ladies Should Listen (1934)

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934)

Belle of the Nineties (1934)

Limehouse Blues (1934)

The Way to Love (1933)

I'm No Angel (1933)

Duck Soup (1933)

This Day and Age (1933)

White Woman (1933)

Too Much Harmony (1933)

One Sunday Afternoon (1933)

Tillie and Gus (1933)

Design for Living (1933)

Monte Carlo (1930)

The Love Parade (1930)

The Vagabond King (1930)

Betrayal (1929)

Art Department (Feature Film)

Thunderbolt (1929)

A Dangerous Woman (1929)

The Case of Lena Smith (1929)

The Street of Sin (1928)

The Docks of New York (1928)

The Dragnet (1928)

The Last Command (1928)

The Patriot (1928)

Underworld (1927)

Forbidden Paradise (1924)

Life Events

1919

First film as art director

Videos

Devil Is A Woman, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Better Take Two Spanish policeman and spurned lover Pasqual (Lionel Atwill) recounts to Antonio (Cesar Romero) his second meeting with Concha (Marlene Dietrich), at work in a cigarette factory, in Josef von Sternberg's The Devil Is A Woman, 1936.

Cleopatra (1934) -- (Movie Clip) She Is Beautiful Director Cecil B. De Mille goes pretty large for the arrival of Caesar (Warren William) and Cleoopatra (Claudette Colbert) in Rome for their wedding in Cleopatra, 1934.

Love Parade, The (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Your French Accent Queen Louise (Jeanette MacDonald) abusing her cabinet (Eugene Pallette, Lionel Belmore et al), while Count Alfred (Maurice Chevalier), summoned home for misdeeds, worries (with royal aide Edgar Norton), in Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade, 1929.

Love Parade, The (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Your Majesty's Dream Director Ernst Lubitsch depicting the kingdom of Sylvania, where Queen Louise (Jeanette MacDonald, in negligee, her first scene in her first movie) is notoriously un-married, in The Love Parade, 1929.

Sorry, Wrong Number - (Original Trailer) A neurotic invalid (Barbara Stanwyck) accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948).

Samson And Delilah (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Such A Man Grandiose credits and opening narration to C.B. DeMille's steamy technicolor biblical epic Samson And Delilah, 1950, starring Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders.

Lost Weekend, The - (Original Trailer) Academy Awards® for Best Picture, Actor, Director and Screenplay went to this groundbreaking study of alcoholism.

Duck Soup - (Original Trailer) In Duck Soup (1933), their masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of all time, The Marx Brothers take over the tiny nation of Freedonia.

Remember the Night -- (Original Trailer) Assistant D.A. Fred MacMurray takes shoplifter Barbara Stanwyck home for Christmas in Remember the Night (1940).

Uninvited, The - (Original Trailer) Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey are siblings who discover their new house is visited by The Uninvited (1944), one of the first, and best, serious ghost stories from Hollywood.

Give Me A Sailor - (Original Trailer) A series of romantic complications ensue between two brothers in the U.S. Navy and two sisters in Give Me a Sailor (1938) starring Bob Hope and Martha Raye.

Great McGinty, The - (Original Trailer) A hobo (Brian Donlevy) rises to town mayor when he hooks up with a crooked political boss in Preston Sturges' The Great McGinty (1940).

Foreign Affair, A - (Original Trailer) A prim Congresswoman (Jean Arthur) gets caught up in the romantic decadence of post-war Germany. Directed by Billy Wilder.

For Whom the Bell Tolls -- (Original Trailer) Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman fight the good fight in Spain in the movie of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943).

File on Thelma Jordon, The - (Original Trailer) Barbara Stanwyck seduces a District Attorney and pulls him into a web of theft and murder in The File on Thelma Jordon (1950).

Going My Way - (Original Trailer) Eight Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor went to Going My Way (1944) the story of a young singing priest (Bing Crosby) in a new parish.

Road To Singapore (1940) - (Original Trailer) Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour star in Road To Singapore (1940), the first of their riotous "road" comedies.

Morocco - (Original Trailer) Marlene Dietrich plays a nightclub singer who falls hard for a Foreign Legionnaire (Gary Cooper) in her first American film Morocco (1930).

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