Egyptian Theatre (Venue Partner)
6712 Hollywood Blvd
323.466.3456
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Cedric Gibbons
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- When
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Saturday Sep 19, 2009 (2–5:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: The Egyptian Theatre is just east of Highland Avenue between Las Palmas Avenue and McCadden Place. Metro Stop: Hollywood & Highland
- Price
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$10 General Admission. Lecture is free with purchase of a ticket to GRAND HOTEL
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Co-Presented by the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles
Cedric Gibbons - Visionary Art Deco MGM Art Director
Cedric Gibbons is considered one of the most influential art production directors in the history of American film. Gibbons led the MGM art department from 1924 to 1956, but his most creative years were 1928-1939, when his movie settings invoked the Art Deco and streamline moderne styles. A Gibbons film’s elegant production designs offered a welcome distraction to Depression-era moviegoers. Gibbons created a new template from which interior designers would create "moderne" spaces for wealthy clients. John Thomas, vice president of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles and co-author of Long Beach Art Deco, will explore the designs and themes of Cedric Gibbons. Special price: Cinematheque & Art Deco Society members: $5 with membership card, or free with purchase of a ticket to GRAND HOTEL at 3:30 PM.
Saturday, September 19 – 3:30 PM
GRAND HOTEL, 1932, Warner Bros., 112 min. Director Edmund Goulding orchestrates a dazzling parade of iconographic stars and intersecting subplots. Ballerina Greta Garbo, aristocrat John Barrymore, secretary Joan Crawford and cutthroat mogul Wallace Beery are just a few of the legends who make their way through this classic ensemble drama, a film whose influence can be seen in later films by Robert Altman and P.T. Anderson, among many others. Cedric Gibbons’ stunning Art Deco art direction gives the players an opulent setting for their personal melodramas. Purchase a ticket to GRAND HOTEL and the Cedric Gibbons lecture detailed above is free.
